South Africa's most surreal ghost town — Kleinsee was a closed De Beers diamond company town of 7

The capital of Bushmanland and home to the world's most remarkable windmill museum — 27 working windpumps from countries across the world spin and creak on the Loeriesfontein plains in the only museum of its kind outside North America. Gravel cycling through the flat Bushmanland semi-desert and the nearby Gannabos quiver tree forest creates one of the Northern Cape's most atmospheric riding days.

One of the best-preserved Victorian Karoo villages in South Africa — Loxton's grid of whitewashed 1890s cottages is surrounded by flat Upper Karoo commonage grazed by blesbok and springbok. Informal gravel loops through genuinely unspoilt Karoo farming country with a hospitality warmth rare even in the Northern Cape.

South Africa's most historic copper mining town — Nababeep has been producing copper ore since 1855 and its abandoned mine headgear

Kamieskroon (base) | Springbok (67km) | Garies (52km south)

The least-visited section of Namaqua National Park — the coastal zone where the succulent karoo reaches the Atlantic Ocean on an undeveloped Namaqualand shore. A 35km gravel sprint through the park from N7 direction to the Groen River mouth

Kamieskroon (21km) | Springbok (67km) | Cape Town (490km via N7)

The complete Namaqualand cycling adventure — 400km connecting the N7 wildflower corridor

The bulb capital of the world — Nieuwoudtville sits on the Bokkeveld escarpment where the Hantam National Botanical Garden protects the world's largest concentration of endemic geophyte bulb flora. The 25km gravel loop to the seasonal Nieuwoudtville Falls is a wildflower-season highlight.

Springbok (17km) | Steinkopf (40km) | Cape Town (580km via N7)

A deeply Kalahari MTB experience — Olifantshoek's granite outcrops and rocky koppies rise dramatically from the red dune grassland plain

The sixth-largest waterfall on earth by volume — Augrabies Falls plunges 56m into a 18km gorge on the Orange River