Karoo Heartland

Sightseeing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andreas Gotlieb Schombe moved to the Cape from Konigsberg in Denmark. in 1765.  ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...

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

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