Xinhua
02 Aug 2021, 11:14 GMT+10
CAPE TOWN, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's national parks management body on Sunday announced that the flower season of West Coast National Park, which is along the west coastline, will officially open in the second week of August.
West Coast National Park's Postberg Section, which only opens during the flower season, will receive visitors from Aug. 1-Sept. 30, South African National Parks (SANParks) said in a statement.
"The good rains, which the area has received this year, should make for an excellent flower-viewing season. We anticipate the flowers to be good from the second half of August up until mid-September," West Coast National Park's acting park manager Pierre Nel said in the statement.
West Coast National Park in Western Cape Province boasts a popular and colorful flower season annually between August and September, or around late winter and early spring, when visitors could see a wide variety of flowers on display, such as daisies and bulbs.
This is often linked with the flower season in the larger area, from Namaqualand region, home to the richest bulb flora of any arid region in the world, in Northern Cape Province toward the south, by travel guides and operators or official tourism agencies, with the introduction of flower routes maps, tourism packages and flower information hotlines.
Seasonal "flower camps" that offer luxury accommodations at Namaqua National Park, which lies in Namaqualand, have started to take this year's reservations that will only be available from Aug. 12 to Sept. 13.
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