The Tankwa Karoo National Park is a park with nothing: no road signs, no decent dirt roads, no visitors facilities, no trees and hardly any rainfall. It's both a Biodiversity Hotspot and a Scientific National Park, so entry permission needs to be arranged with the park before you visit.
With the Roggeveld Mountains dominating the horizon, you enter a koppie-studded landscape that's as close to walking on the moon as most of us will ever get. Go in August/September when the spring flowers come out and the succulents bloom, and you never again think of the southwestern Karoo as a 'simmering wasteland to be endured'.
Situated in the Northern Cape, the Karoo Highlands Route route covers a very unique part of South Africa. The Karoo also offers some of the ...
Tankwa is well known among birding enthusiasts as it offers amazing opportunities to spot several Karoo endemics as well as various waterfow...