Plan Your Trip

WHERE IT IS: Clanwilliam is a town in the Olifants River Valley in the Western Cape, about 200km north of Cape Town.

SKIMMELBERG: Tea tasting is R75 per person; the two-hour farm tour plus tea tasting is R220 per person. To book, e-mail tours@skimmelberg.co.za (prior booking essential). For more information see skimmelberg.co.za.

THE SEVILLA ROCK ART TRAIL: Permits from the Traveller’s Rest farm stall are R40 per person (free for children under 12). They also have a free pamphlet with information about each of the nine rock-art sites or you can buy Rock Art of the Western Cape Book 1: The Sevilla Trail by Peter Slingsby — with info on the art as well as the plants on the trail — from the stall for R95.

WHERE TO STAY: Ndedema Lodge is a four-star bed-andbreakfast establishment with wonderful staff, and rooms that hark back to a time when things were built with ample space in mind. See ndedemalodge.co.za

WHERE TO EAT: The sheer variety of flavours to be found in the veld are a treasure trove for a brave and creative chef. Enter Christiaan Amon at Cederberg Ridge Wilderness Lodge, who offers a fine-dining experience like no other.

Perched on a foothill, this luxury lodge welcomes guests to enjoy dishes such as grass-fed beef steak and wild mushroom stroganoff along with wines by world-renowned Cederberg Wines vintner David Nieuwoudt, as you watch the mountains fade into darkness and the sky become a tapestry of stars.