Riviersonderend offers beautiful mountain and river scenery, a nine-hole golf course and sightings of South Africa's national bird, the blue crane.

Large colonies of blue cranes can be seen on the fields in the Riviersonderend area. Riviersonderend is situated on the N2, approximately 160km from Cape Town. The town offers beautiful mountain and river scenery, a nine-hole golf course and more.
The name is derived from the perennial Sonderend River at the foot of the Sonderend mountains. Riviersonderend or "River Zonder End" as it was known in earlier days was established in 1923 when Miss Edith McIntyre sold the farm Tierhoek for £6000 to the church council of the local Dutch Reformed Church when the congregation was established.

There is uncertainty about the origin of the name Riviersonderend .