It’s “flower safari” time – which means our West Coast explodes like fireworks and is coated with colour.

Take a Self-drive tour through West Coast National Park ONLY one-and-a-half hours’ drive from Cape Town through our national park via Postberg and the Seeberg lookout point section (route maps available from the park).

Did you know:

• The Cape Floral kingdom is one of the eight world heritage sites in South Africa.
• Is the smallest but richest of the six floral kingdoms in the world.
• These species include the unique Fynbos and Renosterveld vegetation.
• The Cape Floral Kingdom stretches from Cape Point to Grahamstown and up to the Olifants River.
• South Africa is the only country in the world with an entire plant kingdom inside our borders.
• The Cape Floral Region contains more plant species per square metre than anywhere else on our planet.
• It is one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world as almost 70% of all the plant species are endemic and only found within our borders.
• 10% of the world’s flowering species are found in South Africa.
• South Africa has the third highest level of biodiversity in the world.
• South Africa is home to the world’s smallest succulent plants (less than 9.9 mm) and the largest (the baobab tree, around 20 metres tall).
• Table Mountain National Park in the Western Cape has more plant species in its 22 000 hectares than the British Isles or New Zealand.

This post was shared by Derryn Campbell from Awesome South Africa on the SMILE 90.4fm Thursday breakfast show with Bobby Brown and Tracey Lange. For more weekly Awesome discussion tune into SMILE 90.4 fm every Thursday morning at 7.10am. or click on the following link to listen via live streaming.