Rosmead (E 13)

Name: Rosmead


The Mid-Karoo route includes the towns of Noupoort, Middelburg, Rosmead, Steynsburg and Nieu-Bethesda, with Middelburg at its centre, including all attractions and potential points of interest along the way. This area once bustled with train tracks and roads, grew quieter over the years, and today the abandoned highways and tracks only remain as a reminder of a forgone era of wealth, where its central position and transport were its economic driver. As the tracks and roads grew quieter and later bypassed these towns, nature started claiming back the land, leaving behind a historically rich and magnificent landscape.

The route is surrounded by dramatic mountains in the heart of the great Karoo and falls in the Nama Karoo Biome. This region is recognized for its herbal plant life, growing naturally in the fields, an exceptional variety of scarce birdlife, the Teebus and Koffiebus koppies and the Orange River Tunnel Outlet from the Orange River Water Scheme. It is also one of the few, and best, places in the world where fossils are found, as well as Rock Art in caves from the first known human inhabitants, the San Bushmen.

The Mid-Karoo Route is home to open spaces, Karoo sunsets, star gazing, fresh air, snow-capped mountains and the Owl House of the late Helen Martins, with her figurative sculptures silently facing east.

http://www.openafrica.org/route/mid-karoo-route

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