Karoo Roads News Today

What do a rocking desert party, baked relics, secondhand book finds and snake venom all have in common?

In the Karoo, there is always something quaint and quirky around the next corner – from Uniondale where there is power in the wors to Matjiesfontein where Johnny Theunissen is a one-man welcome committee.

This is a road trip that begins with a little jail time and ends with a shattered gearbox in Barrydale on Route 62.

Chris Marais reminisces about times spent at the Williston Winter Festival, a cultural festival like no other, deep in the Northern Cape Karoo.

There are many stories – some sad, some wondrous, others downright weird – to be found at the Cradock cemetery in the Karoo heartland.

Leliekloof – Valley of Art, somewhere in the middle of a massive sandstone circle surrounded by the Karoo.

A touch of Wild West, a drop of Outback and a whole lot of pure Karoo.

Mountain Zebra National Park: An 18th-century wildlife tragedy becomes a 21st-century success story.

On Boeta Gammi, who writes out speeding fines by day, and hit songs by night.

Once the long drought had been relieved, it was time to go in search of The Poggenpoel: the ‘Golden Fleece of the Karoo’, in the Calvinia Museum.