Attractions IN/AROUND McCarthys Rest
Birdlife or Wildlife Sanctuaries
Kalahari Meerkat Project
The Kalahari Meerkat Project is based in the Kuruman River Reserve, just south of the border of Botswana. There is infinite beauty in this semi-arid space dominated by barely vegetated fossil sand dunes and camel thorn trees, set on either side of the ...
Game Reserves / National Parks
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Africa's first formally declared trans-border conservation area, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, on the border of South Africa and Botswana, was officially launched on May 12, 2000. The combined land area of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is +/- ...
Game Reserves / Nature Reserves
Tswalu Kalahari Reserve
Surrounding the rugged Koranneberg Mountains in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, Tswalu Kalahari Reserve covers 1000km˛ (100 000 ha) of land on the edge of the mysterious desert wilderness that is the Kalahari. In the Kalahari, the thornveld ...
Mountain Passes
Wildeperdehoek Pass
Almost inextricably linked to Messelpad Pass (the two are part of the 'Copper Route' between Springbok and Hondeklip Bay) Wildeperdehoek Pass is usually travelled from the north via Messelpad. The pass also forms part of the Caracal Eco Route starting at ...
... and a little further afield
Cultural / Uniquely South African / World Heritage Sites
Khomani Cultural Landscape
The area in the southern Kalahari, bordered in the east by Botswana and the west by Namibia, is where you will find a small group of the Khomani San a people who, until recently, were thought to have vanished. Their once vast ...
Wine Routes
Orange River Wine Route
In a part of South Africa that is, for all intents and purposes, practically desert, one does not expect to find a wine route. But the Orange River, the life blood of this part of the Northern Cape, supports row upon row of land under vine – an ...
Nature Reserves
Riemvasmaak Community Conservancy
North west of the town of Kakamas and bordering the Augrabies National Park is the Riemvasmaak Community Conservancy - 75 00 hectares of land between the flowing Orange and dry Molopo rivers. Pronounced 'reem fuss mark', meaning 'tighten the strap', the ...
Golf Courses
Sishen Golf Club
Of all the golf courses in South Africa, Sishen Golf Course is one of the most remote. Situated on the outskirts of the town of Kathu in the Northern Cape, this is truly a unique setting in which to play a round of golf - the course winds its way through ...
Lakes / Dams / Landmarks / Natural Wonders
The Eye of Kuruman
The Eye was discovered in 1801, when an expedition called Truter Somerville was being conducted. It was only a little while later that a mission station was established here with the purpose of educating the locals and converting them to Christianity ...
Nature Reserves
Witsand Nature Reserve
The Witsand (White Sands) Nature Reserve is a 2 500 hectares island of brilliant white sands surrounded by a sea of regular Red Kalahari sand. Also known as Brulsand, or Roaring Sands. Geologists who have studied the region claim that the white sand owes ...
McCarthys Rest as a destination
Also in the neighbourhood
Askham, Hotazel, Kathu, Kgalagadi, Kuruman, Tswalu
Staying Overnight
Cullinan Guest Farm
Choose Cullinan Guest Farm for Kalahari accommodation and hospitality. We are just off the main road between South Africa and Botswana, on the R3...
Springbokpan Guest Farm
Springbokpan Guest Farm is the nearest Guest farm to the border of Botswana at McCarthy's Rest Border Post. Our aim is to provide you with maximu...
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