Towns of the Karoo: Nieu-Bethesda
At the end of my recent trip through the Karoo, after a stopover in Philippolis and an Inventure in the desert, I spent two nights in another tiny Karoo town: Nieu-Bethesda. A kilometer or [...]
Towns of the Karoo: Philippolis
There's something special about a particular kind of tiny Karoo town. When I pull into one of these towns after a long drive, drop my bags, and sink into a chair on the stoep [...]
An Inventure in the Great Karoo
17 May 2025 The day starts with walking across the freezing river in the dark with bare feet and a head lamp. Fuck this shit, I think, as we toil up a nearly vertical [...]
Stuurmansfontein: A Corbelled House in the Great Karoo
It was a blustery winter afternoon on my 50th birthday. The Blogitects were headed to Stuurmansfontein, an iconic corbelled house in the middle of the Great Karoo, and I was super excited. But the [...]