In the Karoo Heartland, you’ll find pieces of history alongside modern conveniences, golden light and good stories, amazing people and ancient fossils. In every Karoo town (and the roads in between), there are hundred of stories to be heard and sights to be seen with wonderfully welcoming hosts to guide you on your journey of discovery.
Sightseeing in the Karoo Heartland
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) creates a quick shortcut ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...
Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...
The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...
Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...
Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...
Aberdeen’s cemetery is a true resting place. Well kept and shaded by ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...
Bishop Robert Gray’s (the first Anglican Bishop of the Cape of Good ...
This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...
The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...
Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...
Throughout the Karoo, it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...
Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Glen Thorn lies about 26 kilometres north of Adelaide, on the left ...
Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...
The Gereformeerde Kerk is located next to the Methodist Church on the ...
Trim Park, Cradock’s municipal park, was established in 1881 on the banks ...
Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Rising 61 meters high, the Draaikrans rock formation is a remarkable geological ...
The tiny hamlet of Norvalspont sits astride the old main road from ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...
Venterstad was founded on 24 February 1874 and was originally named Ventersburg ...
The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...
THIS PAGE IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS Wesleyan Methodist Church (1842) ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...
In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...
In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...
Willowmore has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...
The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...
The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
The Rothschild* name is globally associated with money and wealth, but did ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...
The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...
The Mill House (Smidstraat) The mill originally belonged to the Dutch Reformed ...
This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...
There’s a very interesting spot near Kendrew. It is the Kalkkop (“lime ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
Permanent settlement in the district began in 1778. The Van der Walt ...
There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...
The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
Andreas Gotlieb Schoombee (born 1741) moved to the Cape from Konningsdal in ...
The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...
The hamlet of Vondeling consists of scattered homesteads that house 29 families alongside ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...
Somerset East is rich in history and in addition to the monuments ...