Accomodation

The Waterfield Guesthouse


Waterfield is surrounded by farmland. Our neighbours grow macadamias, avocados, vegetables and peaches and their fields ramble over gentle hills. At the bottom of the valley is the Sandriver and within easy hiking distance is a granite koppie that has Iron Age ruins surrounding it. Vervet monkeys, bushbuck, mongeese, duikers and a great range of birds can be seen. At night fruit bats come to eat off the indigenous fig and yellow wood trees that grow in the garden, bushbabies (the greater galago ones) occasionally clamber over the roof tops at night and if they are feeling feisty they shriek in a rather scery way!. The dam and surrounding springs are home to a vast array of frogs whose calls fill the air on summer evenings. The irrigation canal from Witklip dam meanders through the garden and provides the sound of running water throughout the year. Waterfield is a place of peace.

Accommodation is provided for artists and visitors on the property in the comfortable self-catering Waterfield guest house (the original farmhouse, which has been renovated). Facilities include en-suite bedrooms, a well-equipped kitchen, dining/sitting room with a television, a wonderful rambling garden and a swimming pool. Fresh veggies, fruit and nuts are available from the organic garden, while supermarkets are close by. There are fish in the dam if you care to cast a line!

At the beginning of 2005 we completed renovating the Stone Cottage. Built on the remains of a stone ruin it is the most beautiful building on the property. The upstairs bedroom looks out over the treetops to the waterlily covered dam. Downstairs is a kitchen/ living room area complete with a cast iron stove for chilly winter evenings. Bottles have been built into the bathroom wall and the shower shimmers like the apse of a Byzantine chapel! Mosaic from pebbles; tiles (ceramic and glass) decorate the stonework walls and pay homage to the outsider artist Nukain Mabaso who created his hillside masterpiece near Kaapmuiden.

Each bedroom is provided with mosquito nets, Waterfield is above the malaria belt and neither our children nor us take anti-malaria medication, but it is advisable to take it if you plan to explore the area and especially the Kruger Park.

The Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport is a twenty-minute drive from the studio. There are also regular shuttle busses from Johannesburg and Pretoria to White River. We will gladly collect guests from the airport or from town. If you are driving, let us know and we will send you a map. We look forward to seeing you!

Rates for accommodation are:
Bed and breakfast: R 250 per person per night

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