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 whole saga around Slagtersnek started with a man named Freek Bezuidenhout, ...
The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
THIS PAGE IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS Cradock has a number ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
An influx of soldiers, farmers and their workers to the Graaff-Reinet district ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
Venterstad was founded on 24 February 1874 and was originally named Ventersburg ...
In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...
The Rothschild* name is globally associated with money and wealth, but did ...
The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...
The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...
About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...
Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...
Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...
Middelburg has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Bedford has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
Bishop Robert Gray’s (the first Anglican Bishop of the Cape of Good ...
The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...
The Gereformeerde Kerk is located next to the Methodist Church on the ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well-known Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, two ...
Aberdeen’s cemetery is a true resting place. Well kept and shaded by ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
The tiny hamlet of Norvalspont sits astride the old main road from ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas ...
The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
The Cradock Dutch Reformed congregation is the eleventh-oldest congregation of the Dutch ...
Willowmore has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The 20 biblical panels in the hall of the Aberdeen Dutch Reformed ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
Aberdeen has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
Trim Park, Cradock’s municipal park, was established in 1881 on the banks ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
The cornerstone was laid on 2 August 1879 by ds. Dirk Postma ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of leivore, or water farrows, with ...
Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...
The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) creates a quick shortcut ...
Graaff-Reinet has a number of historic buildings and churches in addition to ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...
Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...
Permanent settlement in the district began in 1778. The Van der Walt ...
The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...
Tarkastad has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...
The hamlet of Vondeling consists of scattered homesteads that house 29 families alongside ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
There’s a very interesting spot near Kendrew. It is the Kalkkop (“lime ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...
Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...