Tag: karoo

  • April 7, 2021
    Ghost Stories from the Karoo, South Africa's Heartland
  • March 12, 2021
    Offbeat retail encounters in the platteland.
  • February 19, 2016
    To palaeontologists, the Karoo Supergroup’s rocks and fossils hold the key to understanding the early evolutionary history of many land…
  • Eastern Long-billed Lark

    July 6, 2013
    The semi-arid scrubland of the Karoo has some fascinating endemic or near-endemic bird species.The region's open landscapes offer great birding…
  • July 11, 2013
    The Karoo is all about slow travel. Here are a dozen handy tips to extract maximum enjoyment from your journey…
  • yeomenry

    August 22, 2017
    The superb back story of a Karoo field hospital set up during the Anglo-Boer (South African) War - Yeomen of…
  • Antoinette Pienaar, Johannes Willemse

    July 23, 2013
    In the middle of the Karoo is the farm Theefontein where Oom Johannes Willemse is teaching the art of healing…
  • move 1

    September 30, 2013
    The big decision: to leave the city and move to a small town in the country.
  • June 25, 2020
    An engineering marvel of an aqueduct, the Orange-Fish Tunnel links the largest dam in South Africa, the Gariep, with the…
  • Aloe ferox, Karoo

    June 5, 2020
    When the landscape turns cold, bleak and occasionally snowy, the Aloe ferox lifts its bright spears of red flowers across…