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 Mill House (Smidstraat) The mill originally belonged to the Dutch Reformed ...
The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...
The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...
Andreas Gotlieb Schombe moved to the Cape from Konigsberg in Denmark. in 1765. ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...
Somerset East is rich in history and in addition to the monuments ...
The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
Rising 61 meters high, the Draaikrans rock formation is a remarkable geological ...
The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...
Ds Dirk Postma founded this congregation at Grootfontein in 1860. The church ...
Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...
The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...
Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...
About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
Willowmore has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
The first Dutch farmers settled in the Tarkastad district in 1795 and ...
The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...
Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...
On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...
Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...
The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...
The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...
Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...
Built in 1840, of plastered sandstone, this Presbyterian church is the oldest ...
There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...
Bishop Gray’s fIrst visit to Cradock was in 1848. After a brief ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
There’s a very interesting spot near Kendrew. It is Kalkkop (“lime hill”) ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
Trim Park in Cradock has several memorials and a historic building that ...
The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) dates back to 22 ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...
On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...
Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...
Arguably the oldest church in Cradock and definitely the oldest church building ...