Lusso Travel Ltd, No. 1 Glasshouse - 1LG1,
Alderley Park, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK10 4TG
The Northern Cape is home to Tswalu Kalahari, the largest privately protected conservation area in South Africa. It also bears witness to one of the most spectacular explosions of wildflowers on the planet.
South Africa’s largest and most remote region
Home to incredible and rare wildlife, including meerkats, black-maned Kalahari lion and desert black rhino
Stay in luxury at Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa’s largest private game reserve
Namaqualand bursts into a riot of colour each spring as up to 4,000 species of wildflower blanket the normally dry landscape
Visit Kimberley, the region’s capital and the centre of South African diamond mining
The Northern Cape is South Africa’s largest and most remote region, home to the mighty Tswalu Kalahari, the largest private game reserve in South Africa. Few visitors make the effort to reach this remote corner of South Africa, near the border with Botswana. Those that do are richly rewarded with magnificent vistas and spectacular wildlife sightings. Traditional plains game are in abundance, but so too are rarer species like black-maned Kalahari lion, desert black rhino, aardvark, pangolin, brown hyena, aardwolf, oryx and bat-eared fox. Tswalu is particularly famous for its meerkat viewing, with habituated groups of meerkats so accustomed to people that visitors can get within feet of the skittish creatures.
Another reason to make the trek is to witness the explosion of wildflowers that cover the seemingly barren wasteland of Namaqualand in August and September. At this time the usually dry lands are transformed into a kaleidoscope of colour as daisies, perennial herbs, aloes, lilies and thousands of other species blanket the ground, attracting artists and photographers from all around the world.
Deep in the Northern Cape, Tswalu Kalahari is South Africa's largest private game reserve - a malaria-free wilderness twice the size of Norfolk.