Hikes and walks

Waterfurrow Walk

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Time: 2 hours each way (4 hours return) Difficulty: Easy Path: Not marked and may be overgrown at times More information: Get directions from the Karoo Lamb Restaurant. The Waterfurrow Walk is a [...]

Gats River Canyon Walk

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Time: 5 hour round trip Difficulty: Easy Path: not marked and may be overgrown at times More information: Permission is needed from landowners. Get directions from the Karoo Lamb Restaurant. A circular walk [...]

Compassberg Climb

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Time: 4 hours each way from Kompasberg Farm (8 hours return). The farmstead is an hour’s drive from Nieu-Bethesda Difficulty: Moderate to difficult. The route is exposed and poorly marked. There is no [...]

Blaauwater Railway

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Time: 3 hours each way (6 hours return). Difficulty: Easy More information: Permission is needed from landowners. Get directions from the Karoo Lamb Restaurant. Hike along the old N9, following the railway to [...]

Fossil Safari

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The Kitching Fossil Exploration Centre offers half-hour guided tours to the Gats River bed to view fossils found there. The fossils date back 253 million years in the Permian Period. Walk back to [...]

Rock art walks

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Ganora Farm runs guided hikes to rock art sites. The rock art found here in San and Khoi shelters date back 10 000 years. This is evidence of Later Stone Age people, possibly [...]

Stone Folk of Ongeluksloot

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Created by Ryno Greeff, “The Stone Folk” is a permanent outdoor installation of stone figures carefully placed in the landscape of Ongeluksloot, on the farm Doornberg, which borders the village of Nieu-Bethesda. [...]