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 hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...
The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...
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 ...
Ganora Fossil Walk After a visit to the fossil museum, visitors are ...
Welcome to Die Tuishuise & Victoria Manor, award winning, authentic South African ...
Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
As you enter Steytlerville you will witness family crests along Piet Retief ...
Both Willowmore and Steytlerville have a number of historic buildings, churches and ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...
The Somerset East Museum is nestled at the foot of the Boschberg ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
Tucked away behind the Verandah Coffee Shop where ladies might lunch on ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
The Stone Folk is a new permanent outdoor installation of stone figures ...
Throughout the Karoo it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...
Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
The Graaff-Reinet Museum or “Reinet House”, formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parsonage, ...
The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain Hendrik ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
Located 15km North-East of Pearston, the Buffelshoek pass is 3.9km long, and ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), was a political activist, feminist and author of the world-renowned ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
The Swaershoek Pass is an alternative road between Cradock and Somerset East ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
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