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Amid the ever-shifting sand dunes, lies one of the last intact eco-systems on the continent. South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok Park shares an unfenced boundary with Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park to form the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Amid the ever-shifting sand dunes, lies one of the last intact eco-systems on the continent. South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok Park shares an unfenced boundary with Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park to form the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Visit the nearby Augrabies Falls, where the waters of the Orange River plunge spectacularly into a gaping granite pool. It was the yellow diamond found by a young boy in 1866, which resulted in the world’s biggest diamond rush and spawned the town of Kimberley.
The town’s most famous attraction is the monstrous Big Hole and the adjoining Kimberley Mine Museum recapturing the prospecting spirit. Travel to Namaqualand every spring to capture one of the world’s most famous floral phenomenons: in early spring, the windswept sandveld transforms into a carpet of colourful daisies, as far as the eye can see.
ARCHAEOLOGY & PALAEONTOLOGY DRIEKOPSEILAND:
Only a few kilometres outside Kimberley, near Plooysburg, lies Driekopseiland (Three Head/Hillock Island) where nomadic San tribes made more than 3 000 rock engravings on the glacial pavements of the bed of the Riet (Reed) River. These engravings are believed to be between 800 and 2 500 years old.
KATHU MINE TOUR - MOKALA SAFARIS
Sihen is Kumba’s largest iron ore mine and is situated in the Northern Cape Province, approximately 280km north-west of Kimberley. Open-pit methods are used for mining the high-grade haematite iron ore. Sishen mine produces about 27 Mt of iron ore of which 22,5 Mt is available for the export market to 15 countries around the world on long-term contracts.
The Sishen Iron ore mine can be visited daily by appointment only. Please Contact Thompsons for details.
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