A wildflower-season gravel base on the N7 Namaqualand corridor — Garies sits at the heart of the Namaqualand coastal plain where spring wildflowers transform the gravel flats. The 30km loop and fuel station make it an essential stop between Cape Town and Namaqua National Park.

Springbok (15km) | Cape Town (570km via N7)

Hanover sits in the central Upper Karoo where the flat dolerite Karoo plains extend to every horizon — informal gravel loops through angora goat and sheep farming country

One of the most atmospheric and least-visited fishing villages on South Africa's Atlantic coast — Hondeklip Bay (Dog Stone Bay) was the original copper ore export port of Namaqualand

The most historically significant gravel route in South Africa — Hopetown sits beside the Orange River where Erasmus Jacobs found the 21.25-carat Eureka Diamond in 1866

A 25km accessible gravel loop through the vineyards

A 30km Kalahari savanna MTB challenge from the Eye of Kuruman — the world's most powerful natural spring pumping 20 million litres per day from a limestone aquifer. Red sand dunes

Classic red Kalahari dune riding in South Africa's most remote cycling terrain — inter-dune corridors of compacted calcrete alternating with soft red sand faces

A flat 20km loop through the date palm groves

A remote Northern Cape salt pan gravel loop from the small town of Kenhardt — flat desert terrain with extraordinary salt crystal formations in the dry season

Kimberley (base city) | Cape Town (960km via N12) | Johannesburg (480km via N12)

A 60km gravel loop through the historically loaded Diamond Fields landscape — past the Magersfontein Anglo-Boer War battlefield