What To Do In The Area
Kleinbosch Lodge is the ideal and perfect ‘Base Camp’ for diverse activities and excursions in and around our place.
- A significant cultural centre, Stellenbosch has many galleries and museums (SASOL, Rupert Museum) showcasing important national and international art collections and the Stellenbosch Conservatoire is the country’s oldest music school. There’s also the ‘Village Museum’ consisting of four historical buildings taking you back two centuries ago.
- The University of Stellenbosch – known as ‘Maties’ – has ‘produced’ many of the country’s great sporting heroes, including more than 155 Rugby Springboks, amongst them three very famous Wine Farmers of Stellenbosch = Hempies du Toit of ‘Annandale, Jan ‘Boland’ Coetzee of ‘Vriesenhof’ and Jannie Engelbrecht of ‘Rust en Vrede’.
- Stellenbosch offers almost every outdoor activity you can imagine and has fine sporting facilities at ‘Van der Stel Sports Club’ and ‘Coetzenburg Sports Ground & Stadium’.
- Stellenbosch Botanical Garden is located in the historical centre of the town and is the oldest University Botanical Garden in South Africa. This compact garden houses an enormous diversity of plants, both indigenous to South Africa and exotic.
- Golf – Kleine Zalze Golf Course next door, Stellenbosch Golf Course a bit further on, Devonvale on the other side of town and more than 10 Golf Courses within 30-40 minutes drive – golfing enthusiasts, what do you want more?
- Hiking, Biking, Horse-Riding – possible even behind our place!
- Crayfish on the West Coast
- Beach walk in Paternoster
- Strandloper Restaurant in Langebaan
- Tours – 4 Passes Route = Hellshoogte, Franschhoek, Viljoen & Sir Lowrie Pass,
- Bainskloof Pass to Tulbagh
- The Stellenbosch Wine Route is arguably the country’s most well-known wine-tasting experience with more then 100 Wine Cellars, most of them open to the public where you can enjoy a leisurely day’s wine tasting and you will sip more than great South African wines – you’ll taste also our enviable South African way of life.
- Wine Tasting – Tours & Self-Drive within Stellenbosch, to Paarl & Franschhoek, Durbanville Hills, Elgin, Hemel en Aarde, visit the historic Wine Farms of Boschendal & Vergelegen, Olive-Oil Tasting at Morgenster & Tokara Wine Farm, have a look at the spectacular Wine Farm of Delaire-Graff, visit the Goats at Fairview and Spice Rout Wine Farm next door, where you can have a cool brew = Weissbier from a Bavarian Brewmaster, taste the high cocao content Chocolates, have a Flammekuchen and a Grappa at the Grapperia or do Chocolate & Wine Tasting @ Waterford Wine Farms, Nougat-MCC pairing (Methode Cape Classique = Champagner) at JC le Roux.
- Top 10 Restaurants in South Africa in close vicinity
- Beach of Strand & Gordon’s Bay (Bikini Beach)
- Whale watching between June – November in Hermanus
- The African Penguin colony at Stony Point/Betty’s Bay is one of only three land-based colonies.
- Private Airfield 1,5 km behind our property
- Surfing – board and kite – in Noordhoek, Blouberg, False Bay and Langebaan
- Hot-Air Balloon Rides in the Winelands
- Aero Plane or Helicopter Flips around the Cape
- Table Mountain, Robben Island and the V&A Waterfront – Cape Town’s most visited destinations.
Talk to us and we can compile an interesting program for you or book you a guided tour.
