This small Karoo town, about 50 km south-west of Graaff-Reinet, is surrounded by the Camdeboo Mountains. Camdeboo is a Khoisan word meaning “green hole”,…
The peaceful little village of Addo lies at the entrance to the Sundays River Valley with its aromatic citrus fruit orchards and vibrantly-coloured roses.…
Beautiful Alexandria was founded in 1856 and named after Rev Alexander Smith, who ministered to the pioneer population. It is the centre of South Africa’s…
Bathurst, with its oak-lined streets, is a typical example of a Settler town and is thus a very popular historical tourism destination. British tourists…
Settlement in the Cookhouse area started when troops patrolling the eastern boundary along the Great Fish River pitched camp here. The first building was a…
Graaff-Reinet, also known as “the gem of the Karoo”, is the oldest town in the Eastern Cape and the fourth oldest town in South Africa. It started as the…
The town was founded in 1812 when Colonel John Graham, who had been sent to quell the unrest on the border, selected Grahamstown, near the Kowie River, as…
This town, named after the treasurer of the London Missionary Society, William Hankey, was founded on the farm Wagendrift, the property of Dr John Philip.…
Humansdorp lies at the foot of the Kouga Mountains and at the entrance to the Kromme River Estuary. During the 1840s, the sheep farmers in the valley of the…
In 1849, the St Helena whaler, JA Jeffrey, established a harbour at this spot because it was ideally situated midway between the Gamtoos and Kromme Rivers…
