Northern Cape
Namaqualand wildflowers, Kalahari red dunes & diamond coast adventures
56 Trails
Gravel
Tankwa Karoo 60km Challenge
Middelpos (60km) | Sutherland (70km) | Cape Town (290km)
A full-day 60km expert gravel challenge combining the Tankwa park road network with the notorious Ouberg Pass climb — a…
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Tankwa Karoo Gravel Loop
Middelpos (60km — tiny Karoo hamlet
The most arid national park in South Africa — Tankwa Karoo's 50km Buitekring MTB circuit, Gannaga Pass gravel adventure and…
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Upington 15km Orange River Loop
A flat 15km riverside loop along the Orange River through Upington — the Green Kalahari capital — past the Kalahari-Oranje wine estates
Upington sits on the banks of the Orange River in the Green Kalahari — the stretch of riverine land along…
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Upington Kalahari Gateway Gravel Ride
The Green Kalahari's cycling gateway — 50km of flat
Upington is the urban hub of the Green Kalahari — a prosperous river town of 100,000 people built entirely on…
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Victoria West Karoo Loop
A peaceful Central Karoo gravel cycling base on the N12 between Beaufort West and Richmond — Victoria West offers open Karoo plains riding through one of South Africa's most fossil-rich landscapes with dolerite koppies
Victoria West is a quiet Northern Cape Karoo town on the N12 highway, positioned in the Central Karoo's fossil-rich interior…
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Vioolsdrif Border MTB Trail
The most dramatic cycling gateway on the South African-Namibian border — the Orange River gorge at Vioolsdrif cuts through ancient bedrock in a rapid-filled canyon flanked by date palms and desert succulents. Combined with the Orange River canoe camps and cross-border gravel bikepacking access to Namibia's Fish River Canyon
Vioolsdrif is the Northern Cape's northernmost road crossing into Namibia — a 24-hour border post on the N7 where the…
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Witsand Nature Reserve MTB Loop
Olifantshoek (75km via gravel road) | Postmasburg (100km) | Upington (200km)
South Africa's most unusual MTB destination — white sand dunes up to 60m high rising from a sea of blood-red…
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Wonderwerk Cave MTB Trail
A 45km ride south of Kuruman to the world's oldest archaeological evidence of controlled fire — Wonderwerk Cave contains 1 million years of human occupation deposits and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gravel reserve tracks link the cave to a broader Kuruman limestone hills cycling route.
Wonderwerk Cave is one of the most important archaeological sites in human history — a 140-metre-deep cave in the Northern…
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