Okiep Country Hotel

Namaqualand Tour

Duration: 8 hrs (Aug–Sept), 7 hrs (rest of year)
Distance: 300km
Departure: 09:00 | Return: 17:00
Included: Entry fees
Excluded: Lunch (approx. R200pp at farmer's house or picnic option)
Guide: Local registered guide (transport included)
Tips: Sunscreen, hat, water, walking shoes

Itinerary Highlights:

- Goegap Nature Reserve: Succulents, quiver trees, wildlife
- Quiver Tree Forest & Kamies-Mountains
- Visit a nomadic herder post; make traditional roosterkoek
- Interact with local school (if open)
- Namaqua National Park (Aug–Sept flower season)
- End at Okiep Country Hotel: Optional history & mining tour (30 min, free)

Orange River Tour

- Day tour with canoeing & lunch/spit braai at Bushwacked
- 1 to 2 Day Richtersveld tour also available

Local Day Tours – R1000

- Nature and heritage-focused tours of the surrounding area

Diamond Coast Tours – With De Beers (between Kleinzee & Koingnaas)

Shipwreck 4x4 Trail (Self-drive)

- Distance: 37km | Time: 09:00–14:00 | Cost: R130 pp + VAT (min 8 ppl)
- Shipwrecks (Piratiny, Arosa, Border), Stone Age sites, diver's camp

Strandveld 4x4 Trail (Self-drive)

- Distance: 27km | Time: 09:00–14:00 | Cost: R130 pp + VAT (min 8 ppl)
- Dune systems, wildlife (gemsbok, springbok, ostriches, duikers)

Mine Tours – Kleinzee

- Time: 08:30 | Cost: R70.18 pp + VAT (min 4 ppl)
- Massive dragline demo, Cape fur seal colony (350,000+ seals)
- Note: No children under 16 or pregnant persons.
- Requirements: SA ID/passport, permits issued 5 days prior, SA Rands only

Top Attractions by Area

Springbok

- Capital of Namaqualand
- Van der Stel shaft (1685), Blue Mine, historic synagogue & graveyard

Okiep

- Historic mining town
- Cornish Beam Pump, Smoke Stack, Fort Shelton, Crows Nest Blockhouse
- Anglo-Boer War sites, Mining museum, M.A.N. engine from Luderitz

Nababeep

- Copper smelter, Klara steam locomotive, Mine Museum

Port Nolloth & McDougall’s Bay

- Fishing, boating, crayfishing, Matjieshuis, date plantations

Alexander Bay

- RAMSAR wetlands, seal colony, diamond mine & museum (Thurs 08:00)
- Lichen fields (26 species)

Concordia

- Orbicule Hill, old granite mines, 1875 stone church, Rhenish mission

Garies

- Letterklip Anglo-Boer War blockhouse (restored site)

Hondeklip Bay

- Old copper route (Messel Pad, Wildeperde Hoek Pass), shipwrecks
- Seasonal crayfishing (permits required)

Kamieskroon

- Lt. Darter grave, flower season photo workshops

Komaggas

- 1790 farming settlement, 1836 Rhenish mission, historic church

Leliefontein

- Oldest Methodist mission (1815), Anglo-Boer War massacre site

Pella

- Catholic Cathedral (1812), oasis town, granite & geology

Steinkopf

- 1819 Rhenish mission, Renish Art Gallery, historic spring, ABW graves

Nonahams & Annenous

- ABW blockhouses, historic railway stops, mule train rest points