Restore Mountain Cottage, Riviersonderend

The cottage provides fully equipped accommodation for up to 6 people - 3 bedrooms (2 bedrooms with a double bed each and a 3rd bedroom with two single beds). Linen (percale) and towels are provided. The cottage has a comfortable living and dining area and an outside 'braai' / barbecue (fire-wood is supplied). There is no electricity. Candles and oil-lamps provide light, the kitchen has an open fire hearth and water in the bathroom is heated by a gas geyser. The bathroom has a toilet, shower and wash basin. Restore has an old-world ambience, complete with fireplace in the kitchen and wood stove in the voorkamer. The cottage is fully equipped with everything you'll need in a house straight from the twentieth century. There are candles, oil lamps, iron pots and enamelware for the wood stove and two benches on the sunny side of the house for contented reclining once you've stoked the fire and prepared countrific soulfood. There are hand-made quilts, hot water bottles and fresh mountain water from the pristine Meulstroom that runs through the kloof close to the cottage. You'll find yourself relaxing and restored amidst a tranquil and inspiring landscape, between fynbos, canola- and wheat lands. Sheep and cattle are your neighbours. Come and enjoy The cottage looks out onto the Riviersonderend Mountains and a trail leads from the front door into a rich fynbos reserve. Dasberg Mountain is home to the Cape Edelweiss (Lanaria lanata), rare fern species and the Protea lorea, whose blooms touch the soil and whose leaves look like grass. Its seclusion between mountain, fields and fynbos offers one a sense of splendid isolation. The silence that enfolds the cottage like a snug karos is broken only by the contented chewing of small Angus cattle and merinos that graze the yellow carpet of canola flowers in front of the house.