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The Kalahari Desert in South Africa reveals its secrets
The Kalahari Desert looks like a desert, by all appearances is a desert, and yet it’s something of a conundrum because it is, in fact, not a desert. The Kalahari Desert in South Africa, is not a desert Africa’s southernmost desert gets too much rain, for...
Five underrated South African National Parks
South African national parks are a good bet, when exploring South Africa. They’re generally well maintained, cheaper than the average safari lodge, and, if you time your visit for SA National Parks Week, grant South African citizens free entry. These are f...
12 Secrets of the Mokala National Park That Will Have you Visiting, Tomorrow
Mokala National Park lies just outside Kimberley - a series of wide open grasslands, Kalahari thornveld and camelthorn scrub land interspersed with isolated dolerite hills. Mokala means camelthorn tree (Acacia erioloba) in Setswana, a name given because of ...
10 Reasons You Should Visit the Big Hole in Kimberley
Kimberley’s open cast mine is the city’s major attraction. Mention Kimberley to anyone and their knee-jerk reaction is: ‘have you seen the Big Hole?’ Reputedly the world’s largest hole excavated by hand, the huge open pit (also known as the Groot Gat, which...
The Highlights Of Kimberley’s Belgravia Walk, Including 3 Useful Tips
Belgravia is Kimberley’s most posh suburb. Like its London counterpart, which lies just behind Buckingham Palace, Kimberley’s Belgravia lies close to the city’s major tourist attraction, The Big Hole. In fact, the land on which Belgravia lies was once a far...
FREE. The Best Kept Secrets In Kimberley
Before exploring Kimberley I thought it had little more to offer than its ‘Big Hole’ experience. But the biggest city in South Africa’s largest province has a lot more going for it than we give it credit for. It’s origin as a diamond rush town made it the fast...
The Lesser Flamingo – Where To See Them In South Africa
A flamingo is a flamingo, is a flamingo. Plenty of these birds around. Flamingo shmingo, I hear you say? But would you be quite so dismissive if you knew that the graceful lesser flamingo is a Near Threatened bird? You find these light pink birds mostly ...
10 of the Karoo’s most historically iconic towns
The Karoo conjures up a vista of wide open spaces, dusty back roads, historical churches and the endless overhead dome of the sky. It is South Africa's heart, occupying huge tracts of the country's inner, and more arid, land; often described as unforgiving. ...
Visit Kimberley
We arrived in Kimberley on a mid-Sunday afternoon at its brilliantly atmospheric railway station. As you descend onto the platform you are immediately conscience of how wonderfully different it is from other modern day stations. The metal latticed roof str...
Exploring Kimberley in South Africa’s Northern Cape
Kimberley is a town filled with diamond mines, haunted corners, home of Anglo-Boer monuments and gentleman’s clubs where the rich and famous all convened. Visiting Kimberley is like taking a tour of big parts of our country’s rich history. Aside from getting a...
I Love Kimberley Because …
Hi, I’m Riana Engelbrecht from Broadwater between Kimberley and Douglas in the Northern Cape. KIMBERLEY IS BEST KNOWN FOR the Big Hole, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world. GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN in the old Town at the Big Hole, to look like a f...
The little town of Victoria West – haven of the Karoo
I hadn't heard about the little dorp of Victoria West until a friend of mine mentioned the annual film festival that takes place at the town's Apollo Theatre, and her subsequent foray into one of only two restaurants in town (there's now a new pizza joint in t...