Bartholomeus Klip Farmhouse

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Bartholomeus Klip Farmhouse

Rates

Rates include brunch, four-course dinner, high tea, game drives,guided walks, birdwatching and use of all facilities.Luxury Room R1 375 to R2 035 pps. Orchid Suite R1 688 to R2 222 pps.Wild Olive self-catering from R974 per adult sharing, children R487. 4 Bedrooms, 1 Suite. 1 Self-Catering House. Children by arrangement.

Description

Bartholomeus Klip is unique. There are only five bedrooms in this small hotel, the original homestead on a large private estate which is both a working wheat and sheep farm and a nature reserve with a spectacular mountain backdrop. Here, in this unexplored region only an hour by car from Cape Town s international airport, you can feel part of the peaceful life of rural South Africa and its clean crisp air and star-filled night skies.

The Victorian homestead has been meticulously renovated, and the fine fabrics and family antiques make you feel as if you are a guest in someone s much-loved home. Comfort is the keynote in the bedrooms: specially made pure cotton bedding, luxurious toiletries, towelling gowns. No TVs to spoil the country feeling (although there are two in the main rooms for essential viewing).

Wild Olive House and its adjoining cottage, separately sited from the main Farmhouse, provide a self- catering option where children are welcome.

The Cottage has a bedroom, bathroom and small sitting room, with mini-fridge and facilities for making tea or coffee. You can watch the setting sun turn the mountains pink from your own private deck.

The food - in the French tradition but with a local flavour - is one of the highlights of a stay at Bartholomeus Klip

Attractions

There are many different things to do at Bartholomeus Klip, although plenty of our guests love to spend their time with us just switching off. However, if you want to do something more strenuous, we provide mountain bikes for cycling through the reserve or along the farm roads through the wheatfields, and there are plenty of wonderful routes to choose for walks.

Down at the dam guests can take to the water in canoes, or go windsurfing, trout fishing or birdwatching.

Even the most relaxed guest will want to join our rangers on the morning and evening game drives through the reserve, where there is always something different to discover.

Along the West Coast, easily reached from Bartholomeus Klip, the West Coast National Park near the town of Langebaan is a mecca for birders and, in the springtime, for flower lovers. Also near Langebaan, the West Coast Fossil Park is one of the richest fossil sites in the world, with an open archaeological dig where the bones of extinct giraffes called sivatheres are clearly visible among a jumble of other fossilised bones. The small town of Velddrif has a bird hide and boardwalk overlooking the Berg River Estuary, a ‘hot spot’ for rare waders and waterbirds in general, and the nature reserve at Rocherpan nearby is renowned for wildflowers and whale watching as well as for its wide variety of bird species.