Vortex Trance Adventures — festival guide
Karoo 62, TBD, South Africa18–20 Dec 2026 · 3 days60 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 18–20 Dec 2026 (3 days)
- Location
- Karoo 62, TBD, South Africa
- Sound
- Psychedelic Trance
- Crowd
- around 1,200 people
- Tickets
- €60 · 1 tier tracked
- Venue type
- Natural site
- Best nearby base
- Ladismith · 0 km · about 0 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Vortex Trance Adventures is an underground music and dance festival held in Karoo 62, South Africa. It has been celebrating PEACE, LOVE, UNITY, and RESPECT annually since 1995, marking 30 years of creating sacred dance circles. The festival features a full-spectrum psychedelic experience with a focus on music, art, and dance, creating a transformative energy for attendees.
Vortex Trance Adventures is a 3-day psychedelic trance festival at Karoo 62 in TBD, South Africa. The December 2026 edition runs 18–20 Dec 2026. It draws around 1,200 people.
At around 1,200 attendees it stays on the intimate side, which usually means shorter bar queues and a crowd that is there for the music rather than the spectacle. Everything happens at Karoo 62, in TBD. Ladismith · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
Vortex Trance Adventures keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Sunday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in TBD are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.
- Celebrating 30 years of the festival
- One of the world's longest-running underground gatherings
- Annual summer solstice celebration
- Full-spectrum psychedelic experience
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Natural site
- Best nearby base
- Ladismith · 0 km · about 0 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€60
Return transport
€1,100
air · 16h 4m each way
Place to stay
€324
Hostel / camping · 3 nights
Total door to door
€1,484
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Vortex Trance Adventures works out at roughly €1,484 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 4% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.
Cheapest travel we price is air · 16h 4m each way, at €1,100 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Vortex Trance Adventures are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
- 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Vortex Trance Adventures on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Vortex Trance Adventures yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
18–20 Dec 2025 (approx.)
2024
18–20 Dec 2024 (approx.)
2023
18–20 Dec 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Karoo 62, in TBD.
- Book a bed in Ladismith early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air16h 4m · €1,100