Van Zyl’s golden mole is an extraordinary creature. It is more closely related to elephants than to the moles you might find in gardens and parks. It has no visible eyes or ears and it “swims” just ...

STUNNING photos of the Succulent Karoo desert have captured the majesty of the most bio-diverse arid desert on the planet. Most deserts are barren places but as the pictures show, this rare landscape ...

While the idea of mermaids in the Karoo may sound completely ridiculous, it is something that is firmly believed by locals. Many Klein-Karoo residents have reported seeing a mysterious woman with blue ...

THE BEST WAY to see the town of Prince Albert is to hike up a jagged path to the top of a koppie (small hill) just outside town. From there, you can take in the surrounding Karoo, a semi-desert ...

If you have a high-clearance SUV, why not let it cosset you and the family over the wild and liberating plains of the Karoo this spring? Yes, it’s probably only ever mounted a shopping mall pavement ...

I hate Hermann Niebuhr. It's late afternoon – magic hour – in the Klein Karoo, a fertile valley in South Africa's Groot Karoo desert, and I'm sipping a sweet muscatel on the veranda of Boesmanskop ...