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Wildcliff in South Africa

 Ian & Jenny Giddy

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Wildcliff is a nature reserve which welcomes visitors with a strong interest in conservation and the outdoors. Only 20 minutes from Heidelberg in the Western Cape, the reserve can be easily reached in a morning's drive from Cape Town, with time to stock up at the local supermarket en route. Guided tours are available with our resident naturalist.

The self-catering guest house "The Weaver's Nest" sleeps four people. It has two bedrooms, one with a double bed, and one with two single beds; a well-equipped kitchen, linens and towels, a full bathroom, dining room/small living room and veranda. 

Rates: R400 a night for the cottage for one to two people. R100 per night for each extra person
Two night minimum

The view is wonderful, up through the kloof with its original afro-montane forest, and up to the ridge of mountains of the Langeberg. The reserve abounds with bird life, and the local troop of baboons provides much entertainment to onlookers with their antics.

With 2300 acres to explore, and several road/trails to hike, the naturalist will delight in discovering the various dams with their variety of amphibian residents, and watching the birds or bushbuck, river otters, snakes, or , if he's lucky, a lynx.  The botanist will be in paradise as a short walk will take her into fields of fynbos, where she will find herself shoulder deep in proteas and ericas and restios....  The adventure lover will enjoy climbing down the craggy cliffs into the kloofs for a refreshing dip in the pools below the stunning waterfalls. Children will love the rope swing over the stream and a short walk alongside the river will bring them to pools they can splash about in.

Details of the reserve and the research: http://wildcliff.org

More pictures of the guest cabin, the Weaver's Nest: http://picasaweb.google.com/giddyhouses/Wildcliff

Directions: http://wildcliff.org/directions.html

Information and Reservations - contact: Jen Giddy at jenny@giddyhouses.com

The Weaver's Nest - the self-catering cottage for rent

            Below is a view from the front veranda of the Weaver's Nest up the Wildekrantz