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Five Assegais Country Estate - Accommodation in Machadodorp, Mpumalanga, 
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Five Assegais Country Estate the Accommodation in Machadodorp of Mpumalanga Region. Paul Kruger himself had this original stone house built in 1850 as an Uitspanplek (way station) en route to the gold mines of Barberton. Ox-wagons would pass by on the dirt track over the Swurweberg Mountains from where you have a spread of undulating green hills with a view that stretches to Swaziland. We walked in the remarkable landscape with its sandstone outcrops stemming from the ancient seabed of the Gondwanaland period.

Price: 3

Self-catering only

3 doubles 1 kids room with 4 single beds

The stones shelter a wonderland of stunted yellowwood trees and aloes which lead to the second highest falls in Mpumalanga, Brides Leap Falls, a painting of which, by Bertha Everard, hangs in the South African Houses of Parliament. You can come here to fish trout, ride horses and stretch those legs or simply recline under the pergola next to the pool. Francis has renovated the house beautifully. He is an artist by profession and his aesthetic ‘eye’ never sleeps! There are tambooti wood surfaces in the kitchen, grey slate floors in the kitchen and bathrooms, while original Oregon pine floorboards deck the light-filled, open-plan lounge.

Francis’s oil paintings hang on the walls and you will particularly admired the green granite chopping-board cut from the stones outside. The house feels like a real home with its vast library of books and National Geographics, satellite TV and laid-back atmosphere. Breathe in the fresh mountain air and relax.

This is a very private and isolated estate which offers an exclusive retreat from the world.