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
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 Willowmore: Town of Murals, an initiative of Revive Willowmore, is an ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well-known Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, two ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
Jansenville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Glen Thorn lies about 26 kilometres north of Adelaide, on the left ...
Willowmore has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...
About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...
The whole saga around Slagtersnek started with a man named Freek Bezuidenhout, ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
The Gereformeerde Kerk is located next to the Methodist Church on the ...
Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...
The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...
Trim Park, Cradock’s municipal park, was established in 1881 on the banks ...
Andreas Gotlieb Schoombee (born 1741) moved to the Cape from Konningsdal in ...
Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...
There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas ...
Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
Venterstad was founded on 24 February 1874 and was originally named Ventersburg ...
Middelburg has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Tarkastad has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Bishop Robert Gray’s (the first Anglican Bishop of the Cape of Good ...
The Cradock Dutch Reformed congregation is the eleventh-oldest congregation of the Dutch ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
Middelburg Old Cemetery The cemetery lies at the junction of Van Reenen ...
For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...
The tiny hamlet of Norvalspont sits astride the old main road from ...
On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
While the discussions about the founding of the Tarkastad DR Church congregation ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
During SA’s golden century of rail travel, Klipplaat was a major junction. ...
The Rothschild* name is globally associated with money and wealth, but did ...
Somerset East has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in ...
The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...
The hamlet of Vondeling consists of scattered homesteads that house 29 families alongside ...
Hofmeyr has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
Bedford has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
Permanent settlement in the district began in 1778. The Van der Walt ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
The cornerstone was laid on 2 August 1879 by ds. Dirk Postma ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of leivore, or water farrows, with ...
Aberdeen’s cemetery is a true resting place. Well kept and shaded by ...
Throughout the Karoo, it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
The iconic “Rooi Bruggie” in Willowmore was erected as a pedestrian bridge ...
Graaff-Reinet has a number of historic buildings and churches in addition to ...
Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...