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If you’re lacing up your boots for the first time or already dreaming of your next walk through the Karoo, this is your space to explore, learn, and be inspired. Here you’ll find personal stories from fellow walkers, practical tips, route insights, and everything in between – all centred around the magic of our Caminos.
If you’ve completed one our Caminos and would love to share your experience, we’d be honoured to feature your story. Send your account, reflections, or tips to slackpackingthekaroo@gmail.com – your words may be just the inspiration someone else needs to take that first step.
Walking as a Couple: What the Nieu-Bethesda Camino Does for Two People
Some of the best conversations of your relationship will happen on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. There are many ways to spend time with your partner. Restaurants, weekends away, the occasional holiday that involves a swimming pool and very little ambition....
No Tent Required: Nieu-Bethesda Camino Accommodation
Let's get one thing straight before we go any further. When people hear the word "camino," a certain image tends to form unbidden in the mind - a damp sleeping bag, a freeze-dried meal that requires optimism to enjoy, and a tent that seemed straightforward to erect at...
How to Convince Your Friend to Walk the Nieu-Bethesda Camino
A completely objective and not-at-all-biased guide to getting your people across the finish line - before the walk has even started. So you've found it. The walk. The one that's been living rent-free in your head since you first read about it, watched someone else's...
7 Things that will Surprise You about the Karoo
You think you know what you're getting into. You don't. Most people arrive in the Karoo with a rough idea of what to expect: flat land, dry heat, empty roads. And yes, some of that is true. But the Karoo has a habit of delivering things you never thought to prepare...
Winter Walking in the Karoo: What to Expect
There's a particular kind of cold that exists only in the Karoo - the kind that bites at dawn and disappears by ten, leaving you wondering if you imagined it. If you're weighing up a winter booking for the Nieu-Bethesda Camino and feeling a little unsure about...
A First-Timer’s Guide to Nieu-Bethesda Village
From the Owl House to the best place for roosterkoek - everything you need to know before your first visit to Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa's most extraordinary Karoo village. Image: The Owl House There are places you visit, and then there are places that visit you...