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 Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Graaff-Reinet Museum or “Reinet House”, formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parsonage, ...
The Gregg Price Art Gallery in Nieu-Bethesda was opened in December 2018. ...
Welcome to Die Tuishuise & Victoria Manor, award winning, authentic South African ...
The Swaershoek Pass is an alternative road between Cradock and Somerset East ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen was constructed in two stages. The ...
Outside Steynsburg are two very well know Karoo landmarks. Koffiebus and Teebus, ...
Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...
The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...
The hamlet of Mount Stewart is located on a crossroads between Steytlerville ...
The Stone Folk is a new permanent outdoor installation of stone figures ...
Somerset East lies below the Boschberg mountain which is anything but typical ...
Throughout the Karoo it’s common to see flat-topped hills called Karoo Koppies ...
The Somerset East Dutch Reformed Church is the fourth oldest congregation of ...
Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), was a political activist, feminist and author of the world-renowned ...
Austin Roberts’ The Birds of South Africa was first published in 1940 ...
Gather a different perspective of Nieu-Bethesda village life. Jakob van Staden has ...
The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...
The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...
Tucked away behind the Verandah Coffee Shop where ladies might lunch on ...
The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...
The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...
The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...
Located 15km North-East of Pearston, the Buffelshoek pass is 3.9km long, and ...
The construction for the cement Road (R329) between Willowmore and Steytlerville commenced ...
Near the roadside between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet, in the middle of the ...
Both Willowmore and Steytlerville have a number of historic buildings, churches and ...
The small Karoo town of Hofmeyr is located about 63km northeast of ...
In 1853 Petrus Fourie arranged for the layout and survey of about ...
Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...
Behind the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet, visitors will find a Black ...
JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...
The first Dutch farmers settled in the Tarkastad district in 1795 and ...
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville is unusual in that the bell ...
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 ...
Motorists traveling along the N9 from the interior via Graaff Reinet and ...
On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...
The Pearston Dutch Reformed Church in the village of Pearston near Somerset ...
Nieu Bethesda has a working network of furrows, with water supplied daily ...
The town of Steynsburg developed around the Reformed Church which was established ...
Tarkastad isn’t a big town with many monuments even though there is ...
The first Dutch Reformed congregation (and also the first church) in Cradock ...
The Valley Of The Flags is located on the R329 outside Steytlerville. ...
Located in the Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff Reinet, the Valley of ...
The Cradock cemetery is probably one of the most interesting ones around. ...
Approximately 12 km from Willowmore, the “Wonderboom” or “Wonder Tree” is found. ...
The Somerset East Museum is nestled at the foot of the Boschberg ...
The museum offers a literary and /or a historical walking tour of Old Cradock. The ...
The history of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain Hendrik ...
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