CamdebooNationalPark.kml normal #Nature_norm_copy0 highlight #Nature_over_copy0 Camdeboo National Park 0 Surrounded by precariously balanced dolerite pillars, rising to heights of 120 m, know that you´re standing in God´s quarry: Camdeboo National Park. With the plain of the Great Karoo as its backdrop, prehistoric fossils littering the valley floor, tell of a landscape formed hundreds of millions of years ago; along with artefacts as evidence of long standing stone age occupation; even Khoisan hunter-herders have left their mark in this astonishing place - visit their painted rock shelters in the east of the park.

Valley of Desolation landscape Credit and Copyright: SANParks

Cape mountain zebra

See a rich biodiversity of birds (220), plants (336) and mammals (43) here including bat-eared fox; suricate (meerkat), kudu, grey duiker, red hartebeest, springbuck, and for birders ostriches, pale chanting goshawks, speckled mouse birds and brown hooded kingfishers. Amid magnificent carpets of spring flowers, visitors describe the uncanny stillness and bizarre rock formations of the Valley of Desolation as an experience that verges on spiritual, so gather your travel companions and overnight in this sub-desert mountain wilderness at the Waaihoek Trail Hut.

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