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February 19, 2016To palaeontologists, the Karoo Supergroup’s rocks and fossils hold the key to understanding the early evolutionary history of many land…
July 6, 2013The semi-arid scrubland of the Karoo has some fascinating endemic or near-endemic bird species.The region's open landscapes offer great birding…
September 27, 2020Publishing progress report on Karoo Roads by Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit, due for release in November 2020.
November 25, 2020Selected quotes and Comments from some of the first readers to receive their copies of Karoo Roads by Chris Marais…
November 17, 2020Why are urban South Africans heading back to the platteland?
November 17, 2020Karoo Roads is a collector’s treasure box of trips and tales gathered from more than a decade of research and…
August 22, 2017The superb back story of a Karoo field hospital set up during the Anglo-Boer (South African) War - Yeomen of…
July 23, 2013In the middle of the Karoo is the farm Theefontein where Oom Johannes Willemse is teaching the art of healing…
August 12, 2017Seven Eastern Cape Karoo mountain farmstays in the Nieu-Bethesda – Graaff-Reinet region.
