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
Magical Getaway - The Most Beautiful Middle of Nowhere - Eastern Free State
Posted on Sat March 7, 2020.
A Magical Getaway - the Most Beautiful Middle of Nowhere - Amohela-Ho-Spitskop in the stunningly scenic Eastern Free State Highlands - is indeed balm for the soul. Surrounded by nothing but the earth, the sky, and the mountains, it's the most perfect escape from...essentially everything outside its glorious bubble.
The MOST BEAUTIFUL MIDDLE OF NOWHERE – where at most 25 beautiful souls can escape in style to an EXCLUSIVE RE-WILDED HIGHLANDS RETREAT – remote yet accessible, set on 164 hectares - where guests have unhindered access to roam a privately owned mountain and you can wander and climb and picnic and walk and cycle whilst barely seeing any other being.
A haven to escape to the BEST GETAWAY for weekends - the BEST GETAWAY as a family - a magical ESCAPE for the long and beautiful days of school holidays - those upcoming long weekends
Our cosy self catering cottages are delightful in every way, the swimming reservoir is fabulous (and has the most incredible views), the bird song is a beautiful cacophony, the bird and animal life, the wonderful re-wilded fields filled with wild flowers, wild pollinators, native plants - is extraordinary.
The native shrubs and trees now tall and strong in the protected environment that is Amohela ho Spitskop - sitting gazing around you, perched on a rock high on the mountain side, one imagines a giant hand appeared in the night and started to splash the beautiful colours of Africa around, touching these leaves here, a branch there, some tiny plants hiding have also been found and are filled with the wonderful colours.
The mornings are amazingly beautiful - the lower valley filled with magical morning mists that drift away in shafts of sunshine.
This "Most Beautiful Middle of Nowhere" with magnificent views across the valley to the Maluti Mountains beyond, set on 164 hectares of a Re-wilded Conservancy - here guests have unhindered access to roam a privately owned mountain and walks are laid out on the flatland.
Indeed, the most perfect escape from...essentially everything outside its glorious Amohela bubble.
Further Reading
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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.
Amohela ho Spitskop Country Retreat - THEN & NOW
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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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