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Calitzdorp Country House
Calitzdorp - South Africa
Email Calitzdorp Country House Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com
Our 5 star country house is in the very heart of the Klein Karoo’s
unique attractions, including the majestic Swartberg Mountains,
the renowned Cango Caves, the stunning mountain passes and indigenous
African flora and fauna. Built in the style and luxury of a gentleman’s country residence
and extravagantly furnished with antiques, Persian rugs, original
art and exquisite fabrics, it boasts every amenity you would expect
from a 5 star luxury guest house. |
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Calitzdorp Country House Accommodation
Our accommodation includes five luxurious air-conditioned bedrooms, each with its own private patio, garden and fountain, are furnished throughout with Victorian, Cape and French antiques and graced with a fabulous collection of original South- and West African paintings, carvings and bronzes.
Original Oregon wood floors provide the perfect mirrored showcase for
a collection of Persian rugs, adding to the overall elegance.
En suite bathrooms include shower, twin washbasins on hand-selected Italian
granite slabs and best of all, outsize baths that invite intimate candle-lit
assignations.
The decorator’s theme extends to the elegant and spacious dining and sitting rooms, where languid ceiling fans, hand crafted in the colonial style, produce gentle swirls of cooling air. In hotter conditions, air conditioning throughout the House easily copes with your need for comfort.
Calitzdorp Country House Facilities
Dining and sitting rooms flow seamlessly out to a flagstone-paved courtyard, ideal for fresh morning breakfasts or al fresco dining on hot still summer evenings, or just for lazing, drink in hand, to enjoy the scenery.
The courtyard’s restful water fountain presides over the long view westwards across blue salt-water swimming pool and gazebo, over green vineyards and lush orchards, to the stark and dramatic Swartberg (Black Mountains) beyond.
Throughout the house, sash windows and wood and glass paneled doors in the Karoo style are traditionally covered in the afternoons to keep out the fierce Western Cape sun.
The cool shade of a verandah which surrounds three sides of the house entices guests to relax on 19th century Cape rusbanke (traditional rawhide-strung farm benches), the House binoculars in hand, to take in the many examples of bird life on the adjacent dam and surrounding trees which scatter Western Cape countryside.
You may then go on to enjoy the spectacular sunsets behind the Swartberg Mountains, and conclude your evening with a crescendo of the incomparable Southern night skies in all their celestial splendour.
The Klein Karoo
The Klein Karoo has a spectacular landscape fashioned hundreds
of millions ago of years ago by water and geological upheaval.
Its flora ranges from lush greenery in the river valleys to ground-hugging,
hardy Karoo plants in the open veldt, including the largest number of
succulents on earth.
The region’s astonishing geological shapes and formations are home
to the famed Cango Caves, a series of spectacular caverns fashioned over
millennia by the seepage of water through porous limestone rock.
At night, the Klein Karoo skies provide a stunning display of light virtually
unknown to dwellers in the Big Smoke, including the Southern Cross, Orion
and the awesome Milky Way in its infinite magnificence. Some say the Klein
Karoo credibly challenges Montana as ‘big sky’ country.
How To Get To Calitzdorp Country House
If you’re traveling west on Route 62 from Oudtshoorn, towards Cape
Town, look out for Calitz Street, at the cemetery in the center of Calitzdorp.
Turn right here (the signpost says ‘Groenfontein’) and drive
for exactly two km along Calitz Street. Calitzdorp Country House is on
your left.
If you’re traveling east on Route 62 from Ladismith, away from
Cape Town, look out for Calitz Street, at the cemetery in the center of
Calitzdorp.
Turn left here (the signpost says ‘Groenfontein’) and drive
for exactly two km along Calitz Street. Calitzdorp Country House is on
your left.
Email Calitzdorp Country House Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com
