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
Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...
THIS PAGE IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS Cradock has a number ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of leivore, or water farrows, with ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
Aberdeen has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) creates a quick shortcut ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
While the discussions about the founding of the Tarkastad DR Church congregation ...
Throughout the Karoo, it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
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 whole saga around Slagtersnek started with a man named Freek Bezuidenhout, ...
This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...
On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well-known Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, two ...
Willowmore has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...
Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...
The Cradock Dutch Reformed congregation is the eleventh-oldest congregation of the Dutch ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...
The Rothschild* name is globally associated with money and wealth, but did ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
Permanent settlement in the district began in 1778. The Van der Walt ...
Venterstad was founded on 24 February 1874 and was originally named Ventersburg ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
The Renosterberg at Dwarsvlei is one of the major landmarks between Middelburg ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
Graaff-Reinet has a number of historic buildings and churches in addition to ...
Tafelberg is one of the best-known landmarks in the Middelburg district. The ...
Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...
Glen Thorn lies about 26 kilometres north of Adelaide, on the left ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
The hamlet of Vondeling consists of scattered homesteads that house 29 families alongside ...
The cornerstone was laid on 2 August 1879 by ds. Dirk Postma ...
Middelburg has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Trim Park, Cradock’s municipal park, was established in 1881 on the banks ...
The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...
The 20 biblical panels in the hall of the Aberdeen Dutch Reformed ...
Andreas Gotlieb Schoombee (born 1741) moved to the Cape from Konningsdal in ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
The Willowmore: Town of Murals, an initiative of Revive Willowmore, is an ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...
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 ...
Tarkastad has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
Bedford has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...
The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...
Bishop Robert Gray’s (the first Anglican Bishop of the Cape of Good ...
The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...
About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...
The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...
Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...
The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...
The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...