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