
This is a place where extreme harshness — scorching heat on summer days, icy cold on winter nights — coexists with the delicate beauty of indigenous plant life, and where the bone-dry air is scented with dust yet still exquisitely clean and crisp. Sunrise and sunset are soft and subtle moments, the land stretches seemingly endlessly to the distant horizons, and the sky feels somehow higher above one’s head than it does elsewhere. The people of the Karoo are special, too friendly to every visitor, yet with an inner reserve that reflects the elusive nature of the place in which they live and work.
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