The Retreat is nestled in a valley between the small rural farming villages of Ficksburg & Clocolan, with views that stretch to the majestic Maluti Mountains in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho in the south east. Succumb to our spacious and classy self catering accommodation, remote, in a vast and timeless setting, where we offer seldom found seclusion and privacy at affordable rates
One of the last quiet places...
Amohela ho Spitskop is surely one of the last QUIET PLACES to be found on a busy noisy planet. "Silence is not a luxury it’s a necessity. Quiet is the think tank of the soul" This beautiful valley with the great vastness and silence is truly a place to rediscover your soul.
The Spitskop Mountain has many sacred sites and ancient walls and as you climb up worn stone steps your mind drifts into the mists of time wondering what past generations inhabited this beautiful place, built the steps and walls from massive sandstone rocks and boulders.
Pack a picnic basket and spend a morning up on the mountain, scrambling over rocks, finding ancient sites, interesting plants and shrubs, insects and butterflies, enjoyed hugely by children of all ages.
Take a sunset stroll up the mountain, basket in hand, filled with a bottle of special wine or bubbly, some lovely snacks, fold up chairs, and watch the sun go down in a blaze of red/yellow/golden spheres of light, pink and blue over the Maluti Mountains.
Grab your binoculars and spend a thrilling day bird watching, we have a check list of some 250 species. Download our bird check list from our website. We also have a self-drive birding route map, showing local dams and birding sites which can be visited.
Barbecue on the covered deck with views to forever and no one in sight, the cottages are secluded and private.
Bring those mountain bikes and cycle along our local scenically beautiful country roads, where you could meet a herder taking sheep home or a tractor trundling along. We have maps of the local roads and you can ride anything from 13 kilometers to 44 or more.
And walk, walk slowly and bumble along, walk fast and breath in the clean crisp air, run and take the quietness into your very being, knowing you are truly in one of the remaining Quiet Places of the Earth.
Further Reading
The Apothecary lies within the 164 hectare Amohela ho Spitskop Country Retreat & Conservancy – known locally as Spitskop – or in Sotho – Petsana ( The Small Foal). And here you step into the enchanting world of WildFields, where 20 years of dedicated REWILDING has transformed a once neglected landscape into a thriving haven for nature and humans alike.
In 2002 when Allen and I returned to this small farm and that wonderful mountain, we were aghast at the destruction that over farming and present day farming methods had done. It was a quiet sad place, in the evenings sitting outside on what was then a crumbling “veranda” the nights were still, no crickets, no frogs, just……silence….and uncomfortable nothingness kind of stillness. And so the healing began.
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