Nieu Bethesda, Karoo, Eastern Cape

Sunshine pours into this spacious self-catering house with a view of the Compassberg mountain.

This spacious self-catering guesthouse has a large, fully-equipped open plan kitchen, dining room and lounge area, two fire places and a beautiful view. One of the two bedrooms is an ensuite. The house can accommodate up to six people.

Self-catering R160pp/night sharing: (min R400/night, max R850/night)
children under 12: 50%

Life in Nieu Bethesda potters along much as it did 130 years ago, when the village was founded. Stone water furrows still line the wide, dusty streets. Night skyscapes are unpolluted by streetlights, and the air is still fresh and clean. Compassberg watches over the village, as always, and Nieu Bethesdans still while away the hours on their stoeps, watching village life go by.

All around stretches the arid expanse of the Great Karoo, "where the land meets the sky". This is a nature-lover's paradise, a high altitude semi-desert that is home to the largest variety of succulents in the world - as well as eagles, hadehas, sacred ibises, secretary birds, blue cranes, flamingoes, otters, lizards, snakes, tortoises, bat-eared foxes, kudu, springbok, reedbuck, wildebeast, wild cats, ground squirrels and aardvarks.