Local people built thriving businesses long before tourism became an economic pillar, and they did this by processing and exporting products that reached markets around the world.
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The Apollo is both an inheritance and an opportunity for Victoria West. The September festival creates a rare opportunity for people to make the journey to one of the Karoo's best kept secrets.
How the wool boom changed the Karoo farmhouse
The Karoo farmhouse is a domestic archive and a reminder that even the most isolated home was connected to a much wider world.
What makes a place Karoo?
Perhaps the most accurate definition is that the Karoo begins wherever dryness becomes the organising fact of life: where water determines settlement, distance defines community and people learn that survival depends not on conquering the land, but on understanding its limits.