When the summer sun is at its highest and hottest, ’tis the season for harvesting almonds. A dedicated team of pickers harvests the nuts by hand, by gently tapping the trees and collecting the fallen nuts (hulls and fruit) onto long shades of cloth.

The Elandsberg sheep flock produces an average of 500 lambs every year. This is the prefect opportunity to join our Sunday family lunch offering at the Deckhouse, with a gentle stroll afterwards to see the cute lambs and proud moms! Please make sure to book so that we can look forward to welcoming you to the farm. Every year our Merino sheep flock to the big shed near the Farmhouse for what they believe is a relaxing spa treatment, but turns out to be a vigorous haircut and a not-so-relaxing deep tissue massage ?? The 4000 Merino sheep are kept primarily for their wool. Guests at Bartholomeus Klip particularly enjoy the lambing time (usually after the early winter rains, when there is grazing for the ewes), and like to visit the shearers in the big shed near to the farmhouse, where the wool is shorn, graded and packed into bales

Join our resident game and nature experts on a tour of interactive conservation projects. The Geometric Tortoises Rehabilitation Project was set up after a fire swept through the Elandsberg Nature reserve in 2012, and aims to research, protect and ensure survival of this rarest and most endangered reptile in Southern Africa.

The Quagga Project is the amazing story of a once extinct subspecies of the Plains Zebra that was brought back to life and into its former habitat by a group of dedicated scientists and farmers. This project, started in 1987 by a group of dedicated people in South Africa, has successfully brought back an animal from extinction and reintroduced it into reserves in its former habitat. By selective breeding from a selected founder population of southern Plains Zebras an attempt is being made to retrieve at least the genes responsible for the Quagga’s characteristic striping pattern.

10,000 acres of untouched natural wonder, home to 150 bird species and 70 mammal, amphibia and reptile species. A private sanctuary in the heart of the Cape Floristic Region, with over 840 plant species, including endangered fynbos, renosterveld, and the rare, endemic Elandsmontana. At Elandsberg, conservation isn’t just a mission – it’s a legacy. We’re proud to be the founding breeder of the Quagga, once extinct and now running wild again, and a guardian of the critically endangered Geometric Tortoise.

The Elandsberg Nature Reserve is part of the Cape Floristic Region, which is one of the world’s six floral kingdoms and the smallest of these by far, but extraordinarily rich in species of flowering plants. The particular flora in our reserve is so special that it has been declared a provincial nature reserve, as well as a Natural Heritage Site, to safeguard it. Some of the flowering plants that grow at Elandsberg, including species that belong to the Amaryllis, Iris, Geranium, Mollugo, and Pea families, can only be found here, and have formally been named elandsmontana

I punti salienti di un soggiorno al Bartholomeus Klip sono le escursioni naturali mattutine e serali attraverso la riserva naturale di 10 000 acri. Ci sono molti animali nella riserva di caccia, facilmente visibili nelle basse fynbos o nelle pianure erbose, ma l'abitante più importante della riserva è una creatura molto più piccola: la tartaruga geometrica in via di estinzione, uno dei rettili più rari al mondo, al sicuro qui nel suo ultimo habitat vitale vicino a Città del Capo.

Tra gli uccelli di Bartholomeus Klip c'è l'uccellino più grande del mondo, lo struzzo, un tempo allevato qui in grossi stormi all'altezza del boom delle piume di struzzo negli anni Settanta e oggi uno dei cibi preferiti del leopardo. La magnifica aquila nera (nota correttamente come aquila di Verreaux) nidifica in montagna, e l'enorme diga vicino alla fattoria ha una spettacolare serie di uccelli acquatici, alcuni residenti come le aquile da pesce e i martin pescatore, e altri come i pellicani e i cucchiaini di visitatori meno regolari. I fenicotteri sono stati visti anche in alcune delle dighe più piccole di Bartolomeus Klip e ci sono una miriade di interessanti uccelli grandi e piccoli nella riserva e nelle terre di grano, tra cui grandi stormi di gru blu, uccelli nazionali del Sudafrica.

Presso la diga potrete prendere l'acqua in kayak, canoe o praticare windsurf, pesca d'acqua dolce o birdwatching.

Esplora la riserva naturale di 10 000 acri in mountain bike, o fai una dolce passeggiata attraverso le fynbos. C'è anche la possibilità di escursioni in montagna per godersi le proteas e gli uccelli

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