Attractions IN Cradock
Nature Reserves
Commando Drift Nature Reserve
The 6 000 hectare Commando Drift Nature Reserve lies roughly 60 km north of Cradock on the road to Tarkastad. At its heart is the Commando Drift Dam, fed by four rivers. On what is essentially a mixture of Karoo veld and recovering grasslands, after ...
Landmarks / Memorials
Cradock Four Memorial
The Cradock Four is a garden of remembrance, a memorial in Cradock's Lingelihle township. It consists of four tall concrete pillars, erected to honour four anti-apartheid activists assassinated by the secret police in ...
National Parks / Nature Reserves
Mountain Zebra National Park
The craggy heights of the Mountain Zebra National Park's Bankberg embrace rolling plains and deep valleys, and has become an entrancing preserve for the Cape mountain zebra. The proclamation of the park in 1937 saved these animals from extinction, and ...
Nature Reserves / National Parks
Mountain Zebra Wilderness Corridor
The valuable grasslands between the Mountain Zebra National Park and the Camdeboo National Park are now formally protected by a partnership between the Wilderness Foundation and SANParks. Known as the Mountain Zebra Wilderness Corridor, the aim ...
Miscellaneous / Landmarks
Scar of Grootkloof
Mountain Zebra National Park lies in amongst the Bankberg Mountains and a series of undulating hills just outside Cradock in the Karoo. This area receives 25% more rain than other more dry parts of the Karoo, mostly because of its proximity to ...
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Game Reserves
Tsolwana Game Reserve
Nestled against the northern slopes of the Winterberg Mountain range at the edge of the Karoo, Tsolwana Game Reserve lies between Cradock and Queenstown, near Tarkastad. It is situated in a mountainous area with its grassy plains and acacia thornveld ...
Natural Wonders
Valley Of Desolation
The Valley of Desolation is a geological phenomenon; a sheer cliff face, declared a national monument that lies within the Camdeboo National Park - a unique Karoo landscape and ecosystem that surrounds the town of Graaff-Reinett, creating a type of oasis ...
... and a little further afield
Mountain Passes
Antoniesberg Pass
Antoniesberg Pass is a remote, sheer gravel pass that links the Groot River with the northern side of the Baviaanskloof Mountains.The pass itself is not long, only 5 km, but there are several access roads that combine to make it ...
Landmarks / Mountain Passes
Barker's Nek Pass
Barker's Nek is a beautiful high altitude gravel pass on the R396 just northeast of the little Eastern Cape town of Indwe. Today Indwe is subdued, merely driven through by visitors to the region. But back in 1876 it was almost ...
Mountain Passes
Bruintjieshoogte Pass
Bruintjieshoogte Pass, in English Brown's Height Pass, lies between the Karoo towns of Pearston and Somerset East on the R63. It offers wonderful views over the Karoo. Whilst not an overly eventful pass, and not dangerous to drive, it is the first ...
Natural Wonders / National Parks
Camdeboo National Park
Formed hundreds of millions of years ago, the Karoo of South Africa is one of the great natural wonders of the world. Camdeboo National Park provides the visitor with insights into the unique landscape and ecosystem of the Karoo as well as splendid ...
Mountain Passes
Camdeboo Pass
The Camdeboo Pass lies entirely within the Camdeboo National Park, just off the R63 from the Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet. The pass gets little publicity in its own right. It doesn't even make it onto the top billing list of the park, in amongst premier ...
Popular Tourist Routes
Camdeboo Route
The Camdeboo Route is a tourist route through the northerly reaches of the Eastern Cape linking the towns of Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen and Nieu-Bethesda. It is one of six routes through the Karoo. The others include: the Little Karoo Route, the Great ...
Mountain Passes
Devil's Bellows Pass
Devil's Bellows Pass is one of the most breathtaking high altitude passes in the area. It heads into the Winterberg range close to Fort Beaufort, and is best driven in a 4x4 vehicle, although MTB riders have not stopped shy of reaching its ...
Landmarks / Miscellaneous
Dorper Wind Farm
Up in the Stormberg Mountains, between Sterkstroom and Molteno in the coldest and windiest part of the Eastern Cape, is the 40 turbine-strong Dorper wind farm. It is an imposing wind farm, one of the biggest in the country, that produces a 100MW boost ...
Nature Reserves
Fonteinbos Nature Reserve
Deep within the Karoo Heartland, along the Kraai River banks, lies the 1 500 hectares of the Fonteinbos Nature Reserve. This reserve, just outside the small town of Aberdeen, is functional, as its natural spring (Die Oog) supplies the entire town ...
Landmarks / National Monuments / Religious
Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church
You cannot miss Graaff-Reinet's imposing Dutch Reformed Church. Also known as the Grotekerk, the Dutch Reformed Church holds the most imposing position in town, right in the middle of the town's ‘square' (which isn't a ...
Cradock as a destination
Also in the neighbourhood
Aberdeen, Baviaanskloof, Dordrecht, Gamtoos Valley, Graaff Reinet, Hofmeyr, Jansenville, Middelburg, Nieu-Bethesda, Queenstown, Tarkastad
Staying Overnight
SANParks Mountain Zebra National Park
Mountain Zebra National Park offers guests a special and personal African wilderness experience and is situated near Cradock in the Malaria-free ...
The Palms Cradock
The Palms is situated along the Great Fish River, in the charming town of Cradock. There are many attractions in and around the area, including t...
Sanctuary Guest & Adventure Farm
Sanctuary Guest & Adventure Farm is located on the Great Fish River bank. There are shared braai facilities, tea / coffee making facilities, a mi...
Albert House B&B
Albert House B&B offers accommodation in six en-suite rooms, five of which have garden entrances. Each room has a television with Cable TV, micro...
Cathy's Guesthouse
Cathy's Guesthouse is a charming guest house close to restaurants and shops. The house is 150-years old and decorated in the style typical of the...
Chive's Cottages
Chives Cottages offers accommodation for up to four guests, in two tastefully decorated units. The units are furnished with two twin beds each an...
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