The country's largest and most sparsely populated province, the Northern Cape has plenty to offer visitors, whether their interests lie in the origins of the diamond industry, the Anglo-Boer War,wildlife, the brilliant spring flowers of Namaqualand, canoeing on the mighty Orange River or enjoying the clear skies and open spaces of the Hantam and Upper Karoo.
 
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The diamond fields around Kimberley, home of De Beers, the world's greatest diamond company, and site of the Big Hole and adjacent Mine Museum - a replica of the city in the frenetic days of the diamond rush.
 
The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, previously the Kalahari Gemsbok Park, a huge grass covered dune area and home to the majestic gemsbok and black-maned Kalahari lion. The spring flowers of Namaqualand, which offer annually one of the most spectacular floral extranvanganzas on earth
 
The Richtersveld National Park, the country's largest desert park, a wilderness of rare beauty and a botanist's delight
 
The Augrabies Falls National Park, where the spectacular Orange River is at its best, and the scarce and firece black rhino may be found