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Serendipity Guest House

Wilderness - South Africa

Email Serendipity Guest House Reservations: booksa@madbookings.combooksa@madbookings.com

Secure basement parking is provided for house-guests.
Serendipity is ensconced in a garden designed and developed by a professional landscape architect, planted with mature indigenous trees and shrubs and collectable forest lilies.

Serendipity offers four en-suite top quality bedrooms with plush percale linen, under floor heating and ceiling fans, personal safety deposit box. Guests may choose from single beds or king size beds. All our en-suite bedrooms are air-conditioned.

To pamper, guests are provided with slippers, bathrobes, Satellite Television, tea and coffee making facilities and a carafe of the best sherry.

Facilities
The guest rooms are overlooking the Touw River, which borders the property. Your accommodation gives you free usage of our canoes to explore the river and the Wilderness National Park.

- The Guest Lounge, double volume with a huge fire place; and library is inviting, furnished with soft fabrics.
- Serendipity is Wi-Fi enabled for broadband internet access.
- Telephone service, internet connections and e-mail facilities are available to guests.
- Laundry service is available to guests staying for 3 or more days.

Breakfast
Delectable breakfasts are served in the breakfast room, overlooking the Lagoon.
Breakfast usually consists of:

ACTIVITIES
Things to do around the garden route:
Canoeing the rivers and waterways, abseiling the cliffs, walking the miles of empty white beaches and watching dolphins, whales and rare birds, fishing the river or the sea or mountain biking are all within minutes from your home-from-home.

Glitterati and Golfing Fanatics
World class golf courses on our doorstep are Fancourt; George Golf Club and Oubaai. Other highly rated golf courses such as Pezula and Simola at Knysna and Pinnacle Point Golf Estate at Mossel Bay. All within 45 minutes away.

Knysna with its annual oyster festival; historic Mossel Bay with its casino and Oudtshoorn with it world renowned Cango Caves and ostriches are all within 1 hours drive from Serendipity.
Monkeyland primate sanctuary and the adjacent Birds of Eden the largest free flight bird aviary in the world are top eco-tourism attraction in the Garden Route approximately sixty minutes of leisurely driving from Serendipity. Worthwhile visiting are the polo fields of Kurland near Plettenberg Bay.

The mountains of the Southern Cape Region
Part of the scenic beauty of the Garden Route, is the mountains and mountain passes to the Klein Karoo. Mostly tarred, but some with rustic gravel roads, like the Swartberg Pass, considered to be one of the most spectacular and breathtaking passes in Africa - a tribute to Thomas Bain, who built it. The road to Gamkaskloof, "The Hell", is accessed from the peak of the Swartberg Pass.

Gamkaskloof was for more than a century the home of a self-sufficient farming community, but now visitors can experience its unique cultural heritage protected within the Swartberg. Then there's Meiringspoort, also in the Swartberge and one of the more spectacular routes between the Central and Klein Karoo, snaking along the river beneath towering red rock cliffs.

The Outeniqua Mountain Pass between George and Oudtshoorn is considered to be one of the world's most beautiful railway passes. If you cannot do it by rail, the road linking the towns will expose you to some of the scenic beauty of the area.

Whale watching
At the southern tip of Africa, where two of the world's greatest oceans converge, a total experience of land, sea and the rainbow culture of the Western Cape offer you some of the most exciting land based whale watching venues in the world!
Each year Southern Right whales migrate into the coastal waters to calve and nurse their young. The animals, often mere metres from the shore, provide unsurpassed whale watching opportunities between June and November

On the Garden Route whale viewing can be done from Still Bay to Plettenberg Bay and especially at Wilderness where the viewing is exceptionally good from the vantage point at Dolphin's Point on the Kaaiman's Pass where whales often come in close to suckle their calves and at Plettenberg Bay where licensed operators take visitors by boat for close encounters with these gigantic animals.

White Shark cage diving
For the strong at heart cage diving with the White Death Sharks off Mossel Bay is available.

Steam Train
The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe is the steam hauled train operating between George and Mossel Bay. The combination of the name Outeniqua (a Khoisan word meaning “they who bear honey” ) and Choo Tjoe (sound made by the steam engines) resulted into the name given to one of the very few remaining passenger trains left in the world.

The Choo Tjoe offers its passengers a unique picturesque and scenic 67 kilometre journey. The locomotives most commonly used on the line are Class 24 (built between 1937 and 1948).

Wilderness national park
Wilderness National Park is in the heart of the Garden Route, is an exhilarating world of lakes, rivers, inland marches, estuaries and beaches against a backdrop of lush forest and lofty mountains. Nature trails wind through densely wooded forest and along tranquil rivers, affording you the opportunity to encounter the brilliantly coloured Knysna lourie or one of the five kingfisher species that occur here.
The series of lakes connected by the Touw River (Eilandvlei, Langvlei and Rondevlei) host a variety of aquatic species and is an internationally proclaimed Ramsar site by UNESCO.

DIRECTIONS
· From the N2 highway, turn into Wilderness Village (away from the ocean), at the Caltex Garage.
· Drive through the village until you reach the T-Junction. Stop at the Protea Hotel.
· Turn Right into Waterside Road and drive 1, 2 km to Freesia Avenue.
· Turn Right into Freesia Avenue, (the first street on your right). Serendipity is the fourth house on the Right.

GPS LOCATION:
33° 59’ 35” S
22° 35’ 33” E

Email Serendipity Guest House Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com