Place of Great Noise
Trip into the heart of the Green Kalahari region north of Upington, and you will find yourself in a place where kokerbome (quiver trees) and lunar rockscapes rear up from plains as old as the continent itself; we’re talking Planet Aukoerebis, or ‘Place of Great Noise’ in Khoi.
Here the Augrabies Falls National Park unfolds in all its dramatic splendour, presenting you with one of the world’s largest waterfalls, a strangely unique environment and incredible silence, broken only by the distant duet of fish eagles duelling along the Orange River Gorge. This is a place of extreme temperatures, spring bringing lovely desert flowers, cooking summers and beautiful winter days preceding the big night-time freeze.
The name Augrabies is derived from the African word “oukurubes”, meaning the noise-making place. This is an apt description of the Augra...
Before European settlers arrived at the Augrabies Falls, the area was home to early African people who primarily fished and fed off the edib...
The Kokerboom Food and Wine Route embraces the towns and settlements of Keimoes, Kanoneiland, Kenhardt, Augrabies, Upington and Marchand. Th...
The office, shop and restaurant of the National Parks Board for Augrabies is situated on Klaas Island. There is also a museum with a dazzlin...