Emthanjeni

Emthanjeni means a vein or artery, a name for the hidden water beneath this part of the upper Karoo. The dry plains around it lie between the Orange River and the mountains to the south. San hunters and Khoekhoe herders travelled through the wider country long before colonial farms spread inland from the Cape. Their routes crossed a landscape where springs, game and grazing lay far apart, and where water could give a place particular value.