Upington is the region’s principal town, where you can travel from a raisin-making factory to a catfish farm, from cool vineyards and wine cellars to tearooms in the desert, from a luxurious lodge to the remains of a Sun (Bushman) settlement in the Verneuk Pan.

In this area you can spoil yourself by doing the Black Rhino Adventure, riding into the desert sunset on camel back, take on the mighty Orange River Rapids in a colorful raft, explore winding nature trails with mountain bikes, visit date palm plantations, sheep farms and ancient mission stations, take too the skies in a parasail or sit down for a moonlit fire-course meal in the middle of the biggest salt pan in the Southern hemisphere! You can also experience the thunderous roar of the Augrabies Waterfall or the challenges the Kalahari and Riemvasmaak 4x4 trails pose.

In this part of Africa, you’ll meet people who genuinely open their hearts and doors to all people. You’ll discover unique places, rare plants and elusive animal species of all kinds –raptors, cats, antelope, insects and lizards. You’ll experience how the sun burns away the endless balmy afternoons to unlock the Southern cross that will appear so close you’ll have an irresistible urge to reach out and touch it.

If you have long searched for a place where you still can appreciate the beauty of an expanding horizon, you will achieve your goal in the Green Kalahari. Yes, once you have visited the region, you will understand why the Kalahari is such a mysterious and tantalizing destination. Once visited, preconceived ideas of dust and sand make war for a desire to return, because people who come here usually want to stay.