Karoo Heartland

Sightseeing

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

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

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

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

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

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), was a political activist, feminist and author of the world-renowned ...

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

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

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

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

Spandaukop is located right next to the Valley of Desolation and guards ...

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

The Stone Folk is a new permanent outdoor installation of stone figures ...

Art

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

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

Located 15km North-East of Pearston, the Buffelshoek pass is 3.9km long, and ...

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

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

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

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

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

The history of Glen Avon is that of Robert Hart who was ...

Ganora Fossil Walk After a visit to the fossil museum, visitors are ...

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

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

Tucked away behind the Verandah Coffee Shop where ladies might lunch on ...

Welcome to Die Tuishuise & Victoria Manor, award winning, authentic South African ...

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

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

On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...

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

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

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

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

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

As you enter Steytlerville you will witness family crests along Piet Retief ...

The Somerset East Museum is nestled at the foot of the Boschberg ...

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

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

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

The Swaershoek Pass is an alternative road between Cradock and Somerset East ...

Both Willowmore and Steytlerville have a number of historic buildings, churches and ...

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

In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...

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

Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Graaff-Reinet Museum or “Reinet House”, formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parsonage, ...

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

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

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

The history of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain Hendrik ...

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

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

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

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

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

The museum offers a literary and /or a historical walking tour of Old Cradock.  The ...

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

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

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

The original title deeds for the land on which Aberdeen is situated ...