Nieuwoudtville is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It lies on the Bokkeveld Escarpment, and was established in 1897. The Nieuwoudtville Falls on the Doring River are located a few kilometers north of the town. Nieuwoudtville is in the Succulent Karroo Biome, which has less than 200 mm rainfall in winter and is even more arid in summer. Nieuwoudtville is extremely popular tourist destination in South Africa especially during the wild flower season. The reasons for Nieuwoudtville popularity is because of its unique placement in the Karoo. Karoo plain is known as the Bokkeveld, it has a reputation as the bulb capital of the world. During spring geophytes also known as bulbs flowers, bloom in the area around town and very rain dependent. There is a wide variety of things in Nieuwoudtville such as a Waterfalls just outside the town, there is the quiver tree forest, local sandstone ruins, glacial pavement, the Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve and a myriad activities that include bird watching, hiking and a lot of star gazing.
We pride our self as a community (about two - three thousand population) that are still in contact with one another and a way of life and respect for other human beings and animals that you will have to go far to find the same. We are well know for our flowers in August to October every year, but for the person who has an eye for detail, there is flowers (not in the abundance you find in Aug to Oct) but they do flower and different flowers every day of the year, with a different type coming to bloom every month. Then we are proud to give you experiences like tea harvesting Jan to April and potato harvest and packaging from March to April. Sheep farming all year round and wheat in Oct.
* Nieuwoudtville Wild Flower Reserve
* Hantam National Botanical Garden
* Waterfall (when we had good rains only)
* Natural Wild Flowers during August September and sometime still October
* Quiver Tree Forest
