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Abbotsbury

Graaff Reinet Eastern Cape - South Africa

Email Abbotsbury Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com

As far as possible, Sue and her team try to produce all food on the farm itself, including the venison and lamb which is hung in a special cool room, as well as jams and preserves which are made from available seasonal fruit.
Freshly-baked muffins accompany a country-style breakfast so lavish it left me contemplating a pre-lunch nap! Even the complimentary rusks in the guest suites come from the kitchen.

Abbotsbury Accommodation

The three guest suites are set out around the main garden in a way that allows each unit privacy without sacrificing the enchanting views of surrounding mountains.
Guests stay either in a lovely old cottage, circa 1880; or a twin-bedded suite attached to the Scotts' own house; or the new luxury garden suite with its sweeping views of the garden and wild valley in the distance.

None lack for character, with polished yellowwood floors, restored old furniture and photographic prints and artwork on the walls.
Sue takes your supper orders when you book so as to have a fresh farm supply at the ready (springbok and Karoo lamb are specialties) and you are served in your own private dining room with solid silver cutlery and bone china.
Relax in one of the well appointed suites

The Cottage:
- 1 bedroom with 2 single beds, en suite bathroom, shower & toilet
- 1 bedroom with double bed, private bathroom with bath & toilet
- Refrigerator
- Tea and coffee making facilities
- Private lounge/dining room
- Private patio

The Pepper Tree Suite:
- 1 bedroom with twin beds, en suite bathroom with bath, shower & toilet
- Private lounge / dining room
- Refrigerator
- Tea and coffee making facilities
- Private patio

The Garden Suite:
- 1 bedroom with double bed (king-size) and en suite bathroom with shower and toilet
- Private lounge/dining room
- Refrigerator
- Tea and coffee making facilities
- Private patio

Directions:
We are situated 27 kms. North of Graaff-Reinet on the N9. Follow the farm road for 3km from the Abbotsbury sign

As you pass through the blue peaks of the Sneeuberg along the N9 between Graaff-Reinet and Middelberg, not far from the turnoff to Nieu-Bethesda, you come upon an unassuming gate at the head of a farm road.
Like so many exceptional places in this part off the Karoo, it requires only an adventurous spirit to drive a short three-kilometres through the bush into a small, perfectly-formed valley that the Scotts call home.
Sue is there to greet you in her improbably lush and well-tended garden, which seems immune to the Karoo sun’s forbidding glare.

No photograph can replicate the impact of arriving here on a sweltering day. No recording device can capture the intensity of sunlight bouncing off the homestead walls, the cool shadows dripping from an ancient pepper tree, the brilliant splashes of flowers or the whiteness of ducks waddling across a lawn so very green you want to kick off your shoes and roll on it like a child. The only sounds are bird calls and the drowsy distant hum of bees about their business.

The 4300 acre farm of Abbotsbury forms part of a greater 50 thousand ha conservancy. For guests this means the chance of seeing springbuck, kudu and steenbuck in a Malaria-free zone.
The truly lucky might perhaps spot mountain reedbuck, the rare grey rhebuck, klipspringer and that shy feline, the caracal.

Email Abbotsbury Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com