The call of the Karoo

The Karoo National Park is surely one of the best-kept national parks in South Africa. In my youth, our family spent many a holiday in the area at a guest farm, and the recollections of these wonderful times popped into my mind outside Prins Albert Road on the N1… warm days, starlit nights and crisp mornings.

The Karoo is a place of arid beauty, solitude, mystery and history. It’s where fossils lie dormant amidst the sandstone, slate and mudstone common to the area and wait to tell their story. It’s a place where chattering weaver birds are the soundtrack to your days, mingling with the cacophony of insect calls.