This Gothic Victorian church boasts a pulpit and great organ that are well worth seeing. The treasure, kept in the sacristy, contains a set of silver goblets. The 46m-high steeple towers above the town.

The collection includes the skull of the proto-reptile Aulacephalodon baini, over 200 million years old, as well as a coelacanth, a large fossil fish thought to be extinct, a specimen of which was found in the Indian Ocean in 1938. The Lex Bremner ..

The home of the magistrate-governor, with its pediment bearing the arms of George III, was restored in 1975 after the original plans drawn by Louis-Michel Thibault , who also designed Reinet House. It is now a hotel. The rooms are in the old freed s..

The Graaff-Reinet Museum of Folk Art and Traditions deals with the lifestyles of local figures in the 19C. It is housed in the former presbytery designed by Louis-Michel Thibault in the early 19C. Don’t miss the amazing objects outside.

As European settlers moved east, isolated towns and villages sprang up in this vast semi-desert area, like oases of greenery. Graaff-Reinet , an attractive agricultural hub, which mainly produces ostrich feathers and wool, acts as its capital. Tempe..

You can’t remain indifferent to or tire of the view of Graaff-Reinet, the arid plains and Spandaukop Mountain afforded by the Valley of Desolation. Columns of dolerite appear as you drive by, further enhancing the spectacle, which reaches its natu..