KAROO SPACE - Cradock

In 1995 a one-year-old democratic South Africa won the Rugby Union World Cup. In that same year, Julie du Toit and Chris Marais met and fell in love. They were both magazine editors (she: Keeping Track, a cutting-edge environmental magazine; he: Living Africa, an award-winning travel and lifestyle publication), working three centimeters apart in shared offices in Johannesburg. By 1998 they were traveling the length and breadth of Southern Africa as freelance photo-journalists, looking for inspiring stories, positive developments and good dawn light for images. Four travel books were born in the process. In that decade of road trips, the couple (now married) built up a huge network of friends and contacts throughout the region. In 2007, South Africa won the Rugby World Cup again. In  

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that same year, Julie and Chris went to live in the Karoo, their personal heartland. Of all the places they had seen, the Karoo – which covers nearly 40 percent of South Africa – captured their imagination most vividly. Their journeys continue, through the 81 towns, four provinces and vast open prairies that make up the ancient Karoo. This website is an invitation to come travelling. Meet the people they encounter, join the wandering couple on the stoep of their Karoo home every morning for a virtual cup of coffee and hit the road with them down a thousand dusty lanes every month…