New Year's Eve is Magic Night in Nieu Bethesda as the kids go walking through the village and the township with their candle-lit lanterns.
Part of the decor at the Two Goats Deli & Sneeuberg Brewery.
Life in the Camel Yard...
Summer bulbs lining the road to Nieu Bethesda.
The Owl House Glutton who had too much Karoo Lamb...
A pensive moment in the Camel Yard.
The gathered Camel Yard characters - they all lived in Miss Helen's mind...
The famous Owl House - one of the main reasons to visit Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.
Big Sky Country - the Karoo Heartland.
Side stand in the Owl House - on a rare candle-lit night.
The road to Nieu Bethesda - a dance of sand and sky.
The Karoo Lamb - Nieu Bethesda's latest eatery.
Ian Alleman tending his supper pots at The Karoo Lamb.
A gathering of wise old birds in the Owl House.
The trademark Sunbeam Smile of the Owl House.
Artist Paul Boekkooi's impression of playwright Athol Fugard - the inspirational soul of Nieu Bethesda.
Some of the old farmsteads in the area are more than 200 years old.
Old mill house on the way to the Two Goats Deli.
Meerkats on the lookout at Ganora Guest Farm.
Saturday morning donkey rides down the main street.
Nguni cattle being farmed near Nieu Bethesda.
Painted beasts on their way to the waterhole.
One of the village stores and early morning coffee hideouts.
All roads lead to Nieu Bethesda...
Owls & Windmills - the icons of Nieu Bethesda village.
Unusual accommodations in The Tower - part of the Bethesda Arts Centre.
Hester and JP Steynberg of Ganora Guest Farm.
Donkeys rides - part of the fun of visiting Nieu Bethesda.
The Camel Yard Arch, with its ever-looming owl.
Nieu Bethesda - backpackers who visit the Karoo love coming here.
The winking Sunbeam Man at Outsiders Backpackers.
Nieu Bethesda - the magical village in a valley.
He loved the sun, the sky and the mountains - a perfect epitaph to Nieu Bethesda.
A secret glance passes between the maiden and the owl in the Camel Yard.
Exposing the past at the Kitching Fossil Museum.
The Owl House by night - a rare and wondrous occurrence.
Stone bones - going back more than 240 million years.
Nieu Bethesda Village - with Compassberg looming over all.
Nieu Bethesda taxi - donkey cart - on a smoke break.
Nieu Bethesda - where historic architecture meets satellite dish...
Three goats meeting at Two Goats Deli.
The Mother Church - tallest building in the village.
The Camel Yard - a jumble of religious icons and strange cement characters.
This way to the Kitching Fossil Museum.
Delicious sunny-day Mermaids of the Karoo.
Graveyard memorial to Miss Helen Martins of the Owl House.
Ever-present owl friezes all over the village.
The iconic Auntie Mazawattee and her tea-drinking granddaughter.
All roads lead to Nieu Bethesda...
The Ganora Guest Farm barnyard at dusk.
Copper-gold windmill sunset at Ganora.
The Karoo Lamb - where you feast in Nieu Bethesda.
The bleak beauty of Nieu Bethesda.
The winding mountain road that leads to the village of Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo Heartland.
Sad-eyed lady of the Low Lands...
Happy Sunbeam Chappy.
The Sunbeam motif moves into the Camel Yard.
The leading lady of the Camel Yard.
Back road to Nieu Bethesda, swinging past the Compassberg.
Old stone fenceposts still standing in the Sneeuberg district.
Some of the most stunning farm landscapes in the Karoo...
Bushmen were the first human inhabitants of the Karoo.
Ganora Guest Farm has a number of Bushman paintings hidden in overhangs near the homestead.
Meerkat watchman on duty.
Ganora - a true Karoo farm experience, complete with fossils and meerkats.
Nieu Bethesda - fed by a fresh mountain spring.
Windmills dot the gullies leading to the village.
The bejewelled owl in the Camel Yard.
Stop for an ale (or three) at the Sneeuberg Brewery.
Beer, cheese and a sunny day - a perfect afternoon in Nieu Bethesda.
