The Karoo is renowned for having some of the clearest skies on Earth, making it an ideal destination for stargazing.

The Forgotten Highway Route stretches 1,000 km from the southern towns of Tulbagh and Ceres to Kuruman in the north.

Our day job is to drive around the vast Karoo outlands of South Africa in ... the Barbie Cue of the Tankwa Padstal, the ...

Verneukpan is the destination of rocket engines, stargazers, writers and trippers of the mind-altering kind. But this time, ...

I spend a lot of time on motorcycles and often disappear for a weekend with a friend or two. However, at least once a year, my wife and I try to do a week-long road trip in the car. For me, a good ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. A mysterious animal painted on a cave ...

South Africa’s Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe plans to carry out the first large-scale seismic survey in the Karoo Basin since the 1970s. South African plans to allow a ...

DM This is a short chapter excerpt from Karoo Roads IV – In Faraway Places (360 pages, black-and-white photography, R350 including taxes and courier in South Africa) available from September 2024.

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