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Skeiding Guest Farm - Accommodation in Heidelberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Skeiding Guest Farm - Accommodation in Heidelberg, Western Cape is a working ostrich farm … close to the N2 and halfway  between Cape Town and Knysna. This makes the ideal stop over. A friendly family farm, an education for city slickers, a place to relax and enjoy beautiful mountain views as the farm is situated on high open rolling terrain. The rooms and cottages have all you need to feel pampered: Honesty Bar, Tea and Coffee making facilities, En suite bathrooms with strong showers, Heater, Ceiling fan, Electric blankets, Ostrich leather slippers and gown, Hair dryers and good South African Port (on the house!) to enjoy on the patio as a sundowner.

Price: 4

Bed and breakfast

4 double/twins

The rooms and cottages are named after birds commonly found in the area … which is a real birders’s paradise. Ossie the Ostrich. The biggest bird in the world. This room is inside the main homestead with a private entrance that opens onto spectacular Langeberg Mountain views. It have a double bed and full bathroom (shower and bath). It can be interleding with the Blue Crane room for a family suite. Blue Crane South Africa’s elegant National bird flocks of up to a 100 can sometimes be seen. This room is also in the main homestead with a wheelchair friendly bathroom (shower) and twin beds. It can be interleding with Ossie the Ostrich room for a family suite. The two cottages each have a living area, main bedroom and a bathroom with a shower. They can serve as self-catering cottages. It sleeps maximum four (two adults and two children who sleeps on a sleeper couch in the living area). A Dover stove in the living area will keep you warm and cosy in the winter months.

Skeiding is a 1200 hectare working far. They farm 1500 free range Ostriches, 1500 Dohne Merino sheep, 200 Boerbok (domesticated goats), a small herd of Nguni beef cattle ( a very hardy African breed) and plant 500 hectare of Canola, Wheat, Barley, Coriander and Peas. Guests are involved are far as possible in the workings of the farm. This could mean watching the ostriches being supplement fed in the morning at 07:30 (before breakfast) on a “hands on“ farmtour with Neels. You might even be lucky and see our sheepdogs Flink (an Australian Kelpie) and Fiela (a Border Kollie) in action, herding some sheep or ostriches. Having grown up in the area, Neels offer a lot of information on the vegetation and other interesting points that make the area so fascinating. Relax at our salt water swimmingpool. Take a leisure walk on the farm (maybe you will be so lucky to see the ostriches’s “love dance”) enjoying the abundant bird life and do not miss the beautifull sunsets on the “stoep”. Other activities in the area can be arranged for you,like golf,horse riding to mention some !.