Free State
South Africa's geographic heart — golden highveld plains, Sandstone mountains, Golden Gate, and the country's main grain country.
Trip Role
Our take
The country's agricultural core, defined by wide horizons and mountain passes.
The country's agricultural core, defined by wide horizons and mountain passes.
- Trip Role
- Worth a Detour
Why go
The province forms the geographic heart of the country, characterized by vast highveld plains and the sandstone mountains of the Golden Gate Highlands. It is the primary grain-producing region of South Africa.
Where to go here
Anglo-Boer War Museum
A museum of the 1899–1902 South African War — the concentration camps, the commandos, and the central interior's defining conflict.
National Museum
A natural-and-cultural-history museum in Bloemfontein — the Free State's oldest museum, with Bushman dioramas and palaeontology.