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This holiday is timed to coincide (rains permitting) with the annual floral displays that carpet South Africa’s Western Cape and Namaqualand Provinces in the early austral spring. Starting in the small town of Worcester, we make our way north into the heart of Namaqualand to enjoy the region’s spring annuals and rich bulb flora. After five nights here we will head south once more, stopping at the West Coast National Park, where mammals such as Eland and Bontebok graze in a floral ‘sea’ of reds, yellows and pinks. We end our tour with two nights near Cape Town from where we explore the world-famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and the unique ‘fynbos’ vegetation of the spectacular Cape Peninsula. Although flora will be the primary focus of this tour, the region’s varied birdlife and other wildlife – including the Cape’s African Penguins and Southern Right Whales – will also be enjoyed.

 

  • Botanise amongst the unique fynbos vegetation of the Cape Peninsula
  • Spectacular floral displays in Namaqua National Park
  • African Penguins & Southern Right Whales
  • Abundant birdlife including Bokmakierie & the endemic Cape Sugarbird, Bontebok, Springbok & Eland in the West Coast National Park
  • Led by an expert Naturetrek botanist and a local naturalist guide
  • Extend your holiday with time in Cape Town
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The Republic of South Africa lies at the southernmost tip of the African continent, flanked to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south and east by the Indian Ocean. It shares borders with Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland. South Africa, with its young democracy, has been aptly named the ‘Rainbow Nation’ – referring to the colourful combination of ethnic cultures and peoples who live in this land of scenic contrasts.


The country’s natural diversity is no less spectacular, with habitats ranging from the dry Kalahari Desert to the tangled subtropical forests and coastal wetlands of KwaZulu-Natal. The towering peaks of the Drakensberg, vast savannahs of the Kruger National Park, and unparalleled richness of the Cape Floral Kingdom all add up to produce one of the most beautiful and biodiverse countries in the world.

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Namaqualand

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In September, as the UK begins its inexorable slide towards winter, 9,500 kilometres to the south the mountains, deserts and grasslands of South Africa’s Western and Northern Cape Provinces burst into life. Here, the start of the austral spring is marked by an explosion of colour, as a kaleidoscope of flowers bloom – the majority of which are endemic to the region – and carpet the land from the wave-pounded shoreline of the Cape Peninsula north to the rolling arid hills of Namaqualand. This exciting tour is timed for early September to coincide with the peak of this spectacular floral display, the intensity of which is controlled by the extent and timing of South Africa’s unpredictable winter rains. Travelling north from Cape Town to Springbok we will explore a wide range of different habitats during our time here, culminating in five nights around Nieuwoudtville and the Namaqua National Park at the very heart of the region’s spring flower displays. Of course, we will not ignore the mammals, birds and other wildlife of Africa’s south-western corner and are sure to sample a few of the Cape’s excellent wines too!

Our holiday starts with a flight into Cape Town where we will be based in a comfortable hotel on the Cape Peninsula for the first three nights of the tour. An undoubted highlight of our time here will be a visit to Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden on the lower slopes of Table Mountain, world-famous for its collection of native flowers including proteas, restios, heaths and a wonderful stand of the rare Silver Tree (Leucadendron argentium). These are the dominant ingredients of the unique ‘fynbos’ vegetation, an endemic assemblage of plants and flowers that carpet the coastal regions of the Western Cape Province, including the spectacular Cape Peninsula. Armed with the knowledge of our time at Kirstenbosch, we will explore the Peninsula in search of some of the 8,500 species found within the ‘Cape Flora Kingdom’, one of only eight floral kingdoms worldwide. These should include the long tubular flowers of Erica plunkenetii, the prostate Protea acaulis and the Cape Sugarbush (Protea repens). The colourful proteas and leucospermums attract a variety of sunbirds including the Cape Sugarbird and Orange-breasted Sunbird, both of which are endemic to the Cape region. During our time around Cape Town we will also visit the African Penguin colony at Boulders Beach and watch Southern Right Whales fluking offshore in False Bay.

Next we begin our journey north, stopping en route in Langebaan for one night in order to explore the West Coast National Park, especially the Postberg section of the reserve that is only open in August and September when the flowers are at their best. This is the southern edge of the great spring flowering that carpets Namaqualand a little further to the north. The meadows and rocky hills here should be ‘painted’ in the yellows, whites, reds and purples of a wide variety of daisies and other flowers including Gazania krebsiana, Dimorphotheca pluvialis (Cape Rain Daisy) and Ursinia anthemoides (Solar Fire). Amongst this sea of colour stride Bontebok, Eland, Cape Mountain Zebra and Ostrich, whilst overhead fly Black Harrier.

Moving on, we will spend our next five nights in the very heart of the flower displays, split between two nights near the small town of Nieuwoudtville and three nights in Kamieskroon, just to the south of the Namaqua National Park. If the winter rains have been kind, the kaleidoscope of colour here can be breathtaking! Our time in the Namaqua National Park is sure to be another highlight of the tour. The reserve, which covers over 700 square kilometres, is home to an estimated 3,500 species of plant, of which up to 1,000 may be endemic to Namaqualand! It also holds the world’s greatest diversity of succulent plants and is the only declared desert ‘Biodiversity Hotspot’ on Earth! The ‘Renosterveld’ surrounding Nieuwoudtville is equally fascinating botanically and has a particularly rich bulb flora, including both Sparaxis elegans and the rare Sparaxis tricolor. A day trip north to Springbok will take us to our most northerly point on the tour and offers the chance to enjoy the flowers, birds and mammals of the nearby Goegap Nature Reserve. As we appreciate the colourful flora we will not ignore the local fauna and should see such mammals as Gemsbok, Springbok and Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra, as well as birds including Southern Black Korhaan, Verreaux’s Eagle and the beautiful Bokmakierie shrike.

Finally, we head south once more back towards Cape Town, stopping for two nights en route in Clanwilliam. Here we will explore the varied habitats along the Olifants River and in the Cedarberg Mountains, before returning to Cape Town for our overnight flight home.

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We stay in comfortable guesthouses and hotels, all with private facilities

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Breakfasts and evening meals are included. Lunches are excluded (allow around £150 for these).

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The spring flowers of the Western Cape and Namaqualand, plus other wildlife. 

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At Naturetrek we craft expertly-guided group and tailor-made wildlife holidays and cruises to all seven continents. On one of our holidays, you can be assured that our passionate team will enable you to experience and enjoy the best of the world's wildlife and natural spectacles in as comfortable and rewarding a manner as possible, caring as best we can for the environment in the process. We are proud to provide:

  • The widest choice of wildlife holidays worldwide
  • Tours managed and led by naturalists, for naturalists
  • Outstanding value and exceptional customer service

Furthermore, as a Naturetrek client, our office team are always to on hand to help you – so if you have any queries about your holiday, whether before or after you have booked, we will be delighted to answer them on the phone. Please just give our team a call!

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A Naturetrek Tailormade holiday allows you, with the benefit of our wildlife travel expertise and destination experience, to enjoy the perfect private wildlife holiday – one that truly matches your requirements, expectations and ambitions. We will ensure the most competitive prices, superb naturalist guides and seamless ground services.

Some of the benefits of Naturetrek Tailormade travel include:
• A bespoke itinerary which is crafted by experts and designed specifically for you
• Private guiding by the very best local naturalists 
• Travel with people you know, at your own pace
• Incorporate as much culture, history or relaxation time as you wish
• Choose dates to suit you
• Select your preferred style of accommodation
• Travel with families and children of any age

Furthermore, our Tailormade team are always on hand to help and guide you along the way, with friendly advice, first-hand knowledge and inside information specific to your destination of choice. So if you have any queries about your holiday, we will be delighted to answer them. Please just give us a call!

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For any interested natural history club or society, we can arrange for a private departure of this tour.

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A 14-day wildlife holiday to South Africa's Western and Northern Cape Provinces timed to coincide with the spectacular and colourful displays of spring flowers.

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The Wild Flowers of the Cape & Namaqualand

Tour Code: ZAF10

A 14-day botany and wildlife holiday to South Africa's Western and Northern Cape Provinces timed to coincide with the spectacular and colourful displays of spring flowers.

£6,395

Flight Inclusive

£5,495

Land Only
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Carbon Footprint

4893kg CO2e

With International Flights

1154.9kg CO2e

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What does this mean?

Highlights

  • Botanise amongst the unique fynbos vegetation of the Cape Peninsula
  • Spectacular floral displays in Namaqua National Park
  • African Penguins & Southern Right Whales
  • Abundant birdlife including Bokmakierie & the endemic Cape Sugarbird, Bontebok, Springbok & Eland in the West Coast National Park
  • Led by an expert Naturetrek botanist and a local naturalist guide
  • Extend your holiday with time in Cape Town

Summary

In September, as the UK begins its inexorable slide towards winter, 9,500 kilometres to the south the mountains, deserts and grasslands of South Africa’s Western and Northern Cape Provinces burst into life. Here, the start of the austral spring is marked by an explosion of colour, as a kaleidoscope of flowers bloom – the majority of which are endemic to the region – and carpet the land from the wave-pounded shoreline of the Cape Peninsula north to the rolling arid hills of Namaqualand. This exciting tour is timed for early September to coincide with the peak of this spectacular floral display, the intensity of which is controlled by the extent and timing of South Africa’s unpredictable winter rains. Travelling north from Cape Town to Springbok we will explore a wide range of different habitats during our time here, culminating in five nights around Nieuwoudtville and the Namaqua National Park at the very heart of the region’s spring flower displays. Of course, we will not ignore the mammals, birds and other wildlife of Africa’s south-western corner and are sure to sample a few of the Cape’s excellent wines too!

Our holiday starts with a flight into Cape Town where we will be based in a comfortable hotel on the Cape Peninsula for the first three nights of the tour. An undoubted highlight of our time here will be a visit to Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden on the lower slopes of Table Mountain, world-famous for its collection of native flowers including proteas, restios, heaths and a wonderful stand of the rare Silver Tree (Leucadendron argentium). These are the dominant ingredients of the unique ‘fynbos’ vegetation, an endemic assemblage of plants and flowers that carpet the coastal regions of the Western Cape Province, including the spectacular Cape Peninsula. Armed with the knowledge of our time at Kirstenbosch, we will explore the Peninsula in search of some of the 8,500 species found within the ‘Cape Flora Kingdom’, one of only eight floral kingdoms worldwide. These should include the long tubular flowers of Erica plunkenetii, the prostate Protea acaulis and the Cape Sugarbush (Protea repens). The colourful proteas and leucospermums attract a variety of sunbirds including the Cape Sugarbird and Orange-breasted Sunbird, both of which are endemic to the Cape region. During our time around Cape Town we will also visit the African Penguin colony at Boulders Beach and watch Southern Right Whales fluking offshore in False Bay.

Next we begin our journey north, stopping en route in Langebaan for one night in order to explore the West Coast National Park, especially the Postberg section of the reserve that is only open in August and September when the flowers are at their best. This is the southern edge of the great spring flowering that carpets Namaqualand a little further to the north. The meadows and rocky hills here should be ‘painted’ in the yellows, whites, reds and purples of a wide variety of daisies and other flowers including Gazania krebsiana, Dimorphotheca pluvialis (Cape Rain Daisy) and Ursinia anthemoides (Solar Fire). Amongst this sea of colour stride Bontebok, Eland, Cape Mountain Zebra and Ostrich, whilst overhead fly Black Harrier.

Moving on, we will spend our next five nights in the very heart of the flower displays, split between two nights near the small town of Nieuwoudtville and three nights in Kamieskroon, just to the south of the Namaqua National Park. If the winter rains have been kind, the kaleidoscope of colour here can be breathtaking! Our time in the Namaqua National Park is sure to be another highlight of the tour. The reserve, which covers over 700 square kilometres, is home to an estimated 3,500 species of plant, of which up to 1,000 may be endemic to Namaqualand! It also holds the world’s greatest diversity of succulent plants and is the only declared desert ‘Biodiversity Hotspot’ on Earth! The ‘Renosterveld’ surrounding Nieuwoudtville is equally fascinating botanically and has a particularly rich bulb flora, including both Sparaxis elegans and the rare Sparaxis tricolor. A day trip north to Springbok will take us to our most northerly point on the tour and offers the chance to enjoy the flowers, birds and mammals of the nearby Goegap Nature Reserve. As we appreciate the colourful flora we will not ignore the local fauna and should see such mammals as Gemsbok, Springbok and Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra, as well as birds including Southern Black Korhaan, Verreaux’s Eagle and the beautiful Bokmakierie shrike.

Finally, we head south once more back towards Cape Town, stopping for two nights en route in Clanwilliam. Here we will explore the varied habitats along the Olifants River and in the Cedarberg Mountains, before returning to Cape Town for our overnight flight home.

Outline Itinerary

Day
1
Depart London
Day
2
Worcester
Days
3 - 4
Clanwilliam
Days
5 - 7
Namaqua National park & Springbok
Days
8 - 9
Nieuwoudtville
Day
10
Langebaan
Days
11 - 12
Cape Peninsula
Day
13
Depart Cape Town
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What's Included?

Food

Breakfasts and evening meals are included. Lunches are excluded (allow around £150 for these).

Accommodation

We stay in comfortable guesthouses and hotels, all with private facilities

Dates & Prices

2027

Flight Inclusive

£6,395

Land Only

£5,495

Single Supplement

£595

Regional Departures

Would you rather depart from an airport closer to you? Give us a call at 1-844-433-9473 and we'll see what we can do.

Flight Inclusive

£6,395

Land Only

£5,495

Single Supplement

£595

Regional Departures

Would you rather depart from an airport closer to you? Give us a call at 1-844-433-9473 and we'll see what we can do.

Prefer to Travel in a Private Group?

For any interested natural history club or society, we can arrange for a private departure of this tour.

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