The flowers of Namaqualand draw travellers from all over South Africa, as well as overseas.
These areas on the West Coast, Cederberg and into Namaqualand, receive little rain throughout the year, but after the winter rain, the normally dry landscape explodes with colour as wild flowers such as gousblomme, vygies, nemesias, lachenalias, babiana and ixias start to bloom.
The peak flower season is usually late July to August, so if you want to take a trip this year, make sure you start planning as soon as possible. In 2017, South Africa experienced a severe drought, and the flowers in Namaqualand were few and far between, a shadow of what we are used to. Margaret and David Wynne sent us this story of their flower-viewing trip from 2017, when they joined…