For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...

Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...

This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...

Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...

The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...

The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...

The village of Pearston is situated in the shadow of the Coetzeesberge ...

Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...

The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...

The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...

The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...

Legend has it that the early settlers in the area saw a ...

What is a drostdy? It is the office or residence of a ...

Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...

The Union Monument is located on the top of Magazine Hill. The ...

The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...

Tarkastad isn’t a big town with many monuments even though there is ...

Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...

The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...

One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...

Trim Park in Cradock has several memorials and a historic building that ...

On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...

The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...

The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...

The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...

The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) dates back to 22 ...

Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...

Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...

Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...

Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...

Soon after the first shots were fired between the Boers and the ...

There’s a very interesting spot near Kendrew. It is Kalkkop (“lime hill”) ...

The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...

Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...

The town of Rietbron has its origins in a patch of reeds ...

Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...

The Mill House (Smidstraat) The mill originally belonged to the Dutch Reformed ...

The first Dutch farmers settled in the Tarkastad district in 1795 and ...

The Gariep Dam is the biggest dam in South Africa. The dam ...

In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...

The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...

The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...

Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...

The Great Fish River that runs past Cookhouse formed the eastern boundary ...

This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...

The Adelaide War Memorial stands next to the town hall

Back in the early 1800s this area was the eastern border of ...

The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...

There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...

Rising 61 meters high, the Draaikrans rock formation is a remarkable geological ...

Ds Dirk Postma founded this congregation at Grootfontein in 1860. The church ...

Built in 1840, of plastered sandstone, this Presbyterian church is the oldest ...

During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...

The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...

The farm Waterford was owned by two Irish Immigrant brothers, John and ...

The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...

Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...

The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...

The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas van ...

Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...

Somerset East is rich in history and in addition to the monuments ...

The Eastern Cape town of Bedford is famous for its annual Garden ...

The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...

P.W.F. Weyers, a former hawker, who lost cattle in an attack by ...

The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...

Arguably the oldest church in Cradock and definitely the oldest church building ...

The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...

Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...

Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...

The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...

Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...

The village of Rosmead near Middelburg wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for ...