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 Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...
Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...
Ds Dirk Postma founded this congregation at Grootfontein in 1860. The church ...
On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...
Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...
Somerset East is rich in history and in addition to the monuments ...
The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...
The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...
Built in 1840, of plastered sandstone, this Presbyterian church is the oldest ...
The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...
Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...
Rising 61 meters high, the Draaikrans rock formation is a remarkable geological ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...
Arguably the oldest church in Cradock and definitely the oldest church building ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...
The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...
The Mill House (Smidstraat) The mill originally belonged to the Dutch Reformed ...
The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
Bishop Gray’s fIrst visit to Cradock was in 1848. After a brief ...
The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) dates back to 22 ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...
This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...
The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...
In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...
Willowmore has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...
Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...
Trim Park in Cradock has several memorials and a historic building that ...
In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...
On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas van ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
Tarkastad Freemasons Lodge This little stone building next to the Presbyterian Church ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...