Namaqualand

Please Note

My 4 day flower tours are fully booked. However, I still have a few days free for one-day tours to the Postberg Section of the West Coast National Park where the flowers are stunning. This section of the park closes on the 30th September to the general public for the season.

The seasons are marching on and with the start of August, Spring is not too far off and that means the wildflowers are already beginning to bloom and the wildflower displays of Namaqualand and the Northern Cape are coming to life now.

I do small-group day-tours to the West Coast National Park and also small-group 4 or 5 day tours to Nieuwoudtville, Biedouw Valley, Clanwilliam, Paternoster and West Coast National Park during August and September.

These tours are all planned around the requirements of my guests. However, generally speaking we leave Cape Town on a Monday morning around 08:00 and travel northwards up the N7, stopping at Clanwilliam for a quick snack before heading into the Biedouw Valley. From the Biedouw Valley we retrace our steps back to the N7 and onto the small town on Van Rhynsdorp where we leave the N7 behind and drive through the Knersvlakte and up the spectacular Van Rhyns Pass and into the Kouebokkeveld. We should now start to see the fields of Namaqualand daisies. We should arrive at our guesthouse in Nieuwoudtville at around 17:00.

Next morning after breakfast we head to see the Kokerboom Forest and the Nieuwoudtville Waterfalls. From here we drive onto at least two of the farms around Nieuwoudtville and the Hantam Botanical Gardens where the flowers should be blooming in great profusion. It must be remembered that every flower season is different with a lot depending on the rainfall and also the weather on the day, the flowers will only bloom when the sun is out and the air temperature is above 15c. We will return to our guest house by 17:30.

The following day we will leave our guesthouse after breakfast and head to Lamberts Bay to see the Gannet Bird Colony on Bird Island before heading down the West Coast to the small fishing village of Paternoster where we will spend the night.

Next morning we leave Paternoster after breakfast and head to the West Coast National Park and to the Postberg Section of the park that is only open from 1st August to 30th September for the flowers.

After we have had our fill of the wildflowers we head back to Cape Town, getting back at around 17:30.

Should you be interested in joining me on any of these tours please contact me on titealistair@gmail.com and I will let you have full details as to dates, costs etc.

Space is limited so do not delay.