Karoo Heartland  Tourism

Self Drive Route 4 is a scenic route through quaint country towns from Johannesburg to the Garden Route via Golden Gate and Addo..

Natural features are special, touching us all in different ways, but always leaving an indelible imprint on each our souls. When..

The Cradock Spa just outside Cradock uses natural hot sulphur springs to fill both an indoor hot pool, and an outdoor pool.

Visitors can now overnight in Camdeboo National Park, at a new campsite and tented camp on the shore of Nqweba Dam.

Thrift Dam is the most easterly and largest of the new trout fisheries near Tarkastad in the Eastern Cape. It is a legend amongst

The scenic Commando Drift nature reserve in the Eastern Cape, is ideal for fishermen, hikers and others who just want to relax ...

The Walter Batiss Art Gallery and Museum in Somerset East is based in a beautiful old building that started life as an Officers..

Heatherby's Heritage Rose Sanctuary in Somerset East, are specialist growers of fragrant, old-fashioned, heritage roses.

The Tsolwana Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape is an 8500 hectare reserve situated on the edge of the Winterberg Mountain range ...

The fairly easy Kranskop Hiking Trial on the Goedehoop farm in Dordrecht, Eastern Cape takes you 10km to the summit of Kranskop.

The Hester Rupert Art Museum houses 126 works from 106 South African artists – all of with great human or natural heritage value

Enjoy the great outdoors around Cradock actively. Adrenaline Junkies offers abseiling, river rafting, MTB and other activities

Schreiner House and the Great Fish River Museum display stories and histories that capture the heart of the Karoo and South Africa

Encompassing both plains and mountain terrain, the Mountain Zebra National Park near Cradock protects the rare Cape Mountain Zebra

Nieu-Bethesda Sculptor Frans Boekkoi's works are world famous, and tell of "the nostalgia of more innocent times, lost in thought"

Take a fossil tour to the fossil bearing rocks of Nieu-Bethesda and look back 253 million years into the time before the dinosaurs

Nieu-Bethesda resident Helen Martin left behind a transformational legacy in The Owl House, and conjecture as to her inspiration

The ancient and unique Karoo Heartland has proclaimed protection in the Camdeboo National Park and in the Valley of Desolation

Up until fairly recently, graceful, cheeky mountain zebras were the undisputed lords of this beautiful Karoo park near Cradock...