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 Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...
Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition ...
The Gereformeerde Kerk is located next to the Methodist Church on the ...
Glen Thorn lies about 26 kilometres north of Adelaide, on the left ...
Marette se Bankie is a viewpoint overlooking the village of Nieu-Bethesda at ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
The Bruintjieshoogte Pass lies on the R63 road about halfway between Pearston ...
There’s a very interesting spot near Kendrew. It is the Kalkkop (“lime ...
The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
Modderfontein is located about 23km outside of Tarkastad. It was here that ...
In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...
The first Dutch farmers settled in the Tarkastad district in 1795 and ...
The St Andrews Anglican Church in Pearston was built in 1907 and ...
The Mill House (Smidstraat) The mill originally belonged to the Dutch Reformed ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
This Church was built by the local community in 1958, as a ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
Throughout the Karoo, it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
In 2003 flags were erected on the main street depicting the Family ...
Middleton is located near Cookhouse and was first established in 1879 as ...
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. ...
Aberdeen’s cemetery is a true resting place. Well kept and shaded by ...
The Tarkastad War Memorial was erected after the first World War with ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roetbron was built in 1910. At that ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
Arguably the oldest church in Cradock and definitely the oldest church building ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
The St Lawrence Anglican Church situated at Tafelberg Station near Middelburg was ...
The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...
The Hennie Steyn Bridge, spanning the Orange River between Venterstad and Bethulie ...
Andreas Gotlieb Schoombee (born 1741) moved to the Cape from Konningsdal in ...
The steel Lady De Waal Bridge outside Steytlerville was built in 1911/12 ...
Bishop Gray’s fIrst visit to Cradock was in 1848. After a brief ...
On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Pieter Willem van Heerden was born on 27 August 1859 and married ...
Dr William Gill was appointed District Surgeon of the newly founded town ...
One of the Karoo’s most obscure tourism attractions is 150 metres underground, ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...
About 17km south of Jansenville stands a couple of gnomes surveying the ...
Take a walk around the Nieu-Bethesda cemetery and see graves both ancient ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to the 1790s, when Klaas van ...
Oviston is a little town, 10 km from Venterstad, on the southern ...
This lovely pass with its sweeping curves around the buttresses of the ...
The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...
Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...
Rising 61 meters high, the Draaikrans rock formation is a remarkable geological ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
The Dutch Reformed Church Middelburg-Karoo is the result of the merger on ...
The church was completed in 1862, for the astronomical amount at the ...
The hamlet of Vondeling consists of scattered homesteads that house 29 families alongside ...
Trim Park in Cradock has several memorials and a historic building that ...
The Mayor’s Garden can be found on the corner of Meintjies Street ...
The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...
The Sir Frederic Bridge (also called Jubileum Bridge) dates back to 22 ...
The Dassiedeur Tunnel, built in 1879, is an old disused 271-meter railway ...