go! Karoo - 2024

In this issue

In this issue of go! Karoo: 43 Great places to stay from Graaff-Reinet to the Tankwa; Get that goodness!; Hardemans Karoo Go back to a simpler time in a corbelled house; Ladismith Author Sally Andrew’s magical mountain hideaway; Baviaanskloof Hike the Leopard Trail and vanish from the world; Calvinia Meet Frans Hugo, 91-year-old newspaper editor and Road tripping - Farm stalls of Route 62, Gravel mountain passes, Take the dogs… to Loxton!

go! Karoo Magazine Description:

Have you always wanted to explore the Karoo, but don’t know where to start? This travel guide covers all the major regions, from the Tankwa in the west to the Camdeboo in the east – Little Karoo, Great Karoo, Hardemans Karoo, you name it, it’s in here!

Our list of 101 Karoo Classics includes the very best padstalle, farmstays, town museums, nature reserves and a selection of our favourite backroads to explore.

Toast Coetzer writes about great places to stay in the Little Karoo (Barrydale, Vanwyksdorp, Calitzdorp, Oudtshoorn and Uniondale); Chris Marais tells the inspiring story of the Eastern Cape town of Hofmeyr; Pierre Steyn joins Heuningland on their Karoo Experience Tour around Beaufort West; and Willem van der Berg hops on a horse cart on the Forgotten Highway!

Meet Marchelle van Zyl, the smiling tour guide of Montagu and Sue Milton-Dean, legendary plant ecologist from Prince Albert.

Practical travel advice, great holiday reads plus a double-page map of the Karoo – enjoy!