Echo Caves

Many archeological artefacts and bones from those times are on display at the nearby Museum of Man.

[2] In 1923, the caves were rediscovered by the owner of the farm Klipfonteinhoek, near Ohrigstad, who was looking for missing cattle.

In the 1980s, more sealed caverns were discovered, and entrances created both into the existing caves and out to the hillside; the new discovery included the enormous Madonna chamber.

The Echo caves were opened as a tourist attraction in 1959, and have been declared a National Monument.

Following the brutal murder of the owner-operator of the caves in 2023, in which she and another resident were tortured and then set alight while still alive,[1] the fate of the caves as a tourist attraction remaining open to the public is unknown.