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Papkuilsfontein Farmhouse - Accommodation in Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa

Papkuilsfontein Farmhouse - Accommodation in Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa. You stay in an old stone cottage, surrounded by rock, gum tree and wildlife, not another human in sight. The quality of peace and stillness defeats description. Gas-fired plumbing for baths, hurricane lamps for light - many guests have refused to come back if Willem installs electricity.
 

Price: 3

Bed and breakfast

2 stone cottages for 4 and 6 sleeping 1 cottage with 1 twin and 1 double

Then there’s the small matter of the gorge and waterfall, which you would have kept secret if you wasn’t insistent on your visiting the farm. Your jaw will drop 180 metres into the canyon. Take a picnic to the deep rock pools for swimming above the waterfall and you can climb down into the gorge in an hour and a half. The wild flowers in season are sensational even by Namaqualand standards; the plantlife, divided between Cape fynbos and Karoo succulent, a botanist’s dream; steenbok, klipspringer, porcupine and dassie love the terrain and have NOT been specially introduced.

Mariëtte is an excellent cook (breakfast a string of surprises). It’s a magical place that not many know about and the van Wyks are lovely, friendly people who seem unable to put a proper price on what they have to offer! You should stay at least two nights. There’s also a restored corrugated-iron cottage for those who need their electricity!