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

JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...

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

The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...

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

Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...

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

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

Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...

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

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

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

The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...

In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...

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

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

Throughout the Karoo, it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...

Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...

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

Tarkastad Freemasons Lodge This little stone building next to the Presbyterian Church ...

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

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

The Compassberg (2502m) is the highest peak in the Sneeuberg range and ...

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

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

The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...

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

The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...

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

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

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

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

Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...

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

Deep in the Karoo Heartland – along a dirt road and, seemingly, in the ...

Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...

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

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

The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...

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

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

The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...

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

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

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

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

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

The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...

Bishop Gray’s fIrst visit to Cradock was in 1848. After a brief ...

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

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

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

About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...

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

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

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

The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...

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