What a spectacle

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Africa, arid area, barren landscape, coat of many colours, Flowers, garden, international tourists, Namaqualand, nature, plants, South Africa, Spring (season), Travel and Tourism, winter rainfall

a ruin in the fields at Papkuilsfontein

a ruin in the fields

Cat’s Tails (bulbinella)

Nature’s scatterings

Kaleidoscope of flowers

Visitors enjoying the flowers

mixed color

Kapok Bossie

Clover

Purple Broom

Vygies

Vygies

Pronkbobejaantjie (Babiana sumbucina)

Mixed flowers flowing out of a trap

Geelmelkbos (Euphorbia muritanica)

Namaqualand is home to this Spring miracle.

After the winter rainfall, Namaqualand dons her coat of many colours and for a brief moment, the wildflowers invade the countryside. Countless poems, novels, paintings and prose have been dedicated to this annual shower of God‘s colour.

Namaqualand is quite popular with both local and international tourists during early springtime, when for a short period this normally arid area becomes covered with a kaleidoscope of colour during the flowering season. This is known throughout South Africa as the Namaqualand daisy season, when orange and white daisies, as well as hundreds of other flowering species, spring up from a previously barren landscape.

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