Roll to a halt on the crunching pebbles and Pieter, the famous La Plume porter, will appear as if by magic. By the time Lena and Christel have greeted you like a long awaited friend come home and Linda and Corlu have signed you in, you will be enjoying your welcome drink on the wide veranda, looking across the manicured garden and over the vast Olifants River Valley.

Discuss your sight-seeing plans with us. We are genuinely interested in making your stay very, very enjoyable indeed, and we are able to make valuable suggestions on your planned activities, because we know Oudtshoorn very well. Your luggage will have been delivered to your sumptuous room, meticulously cleaned by Bernadette, Kallas, Koekie and Lea. Laundry? Henna will take care of that little detail. (O, Karin has left some local port for you.)

The rolling lawns and the sparkling pool are ready for your enjoyment because Josop and Thys made it so; because Andries and Allan kept the grounds and the buildings in prime condition, as if they were expecting you, and no other, to arrive and enjoy it.

The kitchen is run by Katie. The kitchen is a very important place. The kitchen is a very busy place, what with Katie’s beskuit (rusks) and appeltert (apple pie) and Bettie’s melktert (custard pie, although South African melktert is just so much… superior, really). A gourmand’s habitat, is the kitchen, considering Bartel’s fillets, and Bettie’s traditional meat dishes, and Katie’s vegetable creations, and Klara’s salads.

All wants and needs are addressed at La Plume. Individuals and couples; groups and families, are all catered for in a unique and special manner.

Accommodation

Like the vast open Karoo landscape, stretching from the veranda across the Olifant’s River valley to the foot of the Swartberg Mountains in the far distance, the suites and the luxury rooms at La Plume are spacious and a cool rampart against the hot Karoo sun.

Rich fabrics blend with the aromas of polished wood and tanned leather. Selected pictures bridge the chivalric charm of carefully selected antique furniture lovingly collected over many years and modern amenities so effortlessly blended by Karin’s elegant hand. The attention to detail that marks every room defines the La Plume experience – sumptuousness.

The rooms are not numbered; the rooms bear names – different types of ostrich feathers grace the doors to rooms, each with an individual unique signature of colour and aroma and furnishing.

Activities

La Plume is a working ostrich, vine, cattle and alfalfa farm and a tour, with owner Bartel, by prior arrangement, to see first hand the activities on a commercial farm is a must for anyone visiting the Klein Karoo. There’s bird watching and hiking among the fynbos and rare succulents. Mountain biking and cycling. There are leisurely walks in complete safety and solitude. Take a balloon flight and visit the world’s only meerkat (mongoose – cat-like predators) conservation program where you can walk with these little “earth people” and be at one with nature. The location puts guests within easy access to natural hot springs, nature and wildlife reserves, the Cango Caves, ostrich show farms and wine estates. (Ask Karin to prepare a picnic basket to take on your excursions.) You will be unable to resist the sparkling pool set among lush lawns and with never-ending views when you return after a day's activity. And then there are the dinners… the crown on a day of enrichment: Delectable cuisine in peaceful rural surroundings, designed to satiate all the senses. Indulge yourself in the romantic ambiance of candlelit dinners with traditional ostrich fillet and other home cooked delicacies. And then… then there is special surprise from time to time, when La Plume offers a view on the High Five: stargazing with a Southern sky expert. Before you retire to carefree dreaming.

Rates

Single rates availible on request

Child rates availible on request

All rates include breakfast

R195p.p. for Dinner

R150p.p. for Farm Tour

10% discount on Winter Rates