Rietfontein is a place that can be visited year-round and offers the ultimate holistic Karoo experience. The property measures approximately 40,000 acres in extent and lies in the wide valley of the Groot River and its tributaries.

On your bike

The farm is a mountain-biker’s heaven: for the beginner there are many kilometres of gravel farm roads to learn on and gain confidence, and for the intermediate and advanced rider there are challenges not only in distance and elevation, but in a variety of terrain from deep sand and riverbeds to shale and sandstone koppies. Rietfontein’s topographical surface varies by some 200m between the highest and lowest contours and offers 160km of jeep track.

Off the bike

What the Karoo offers above and beyond the variety of activities is an opportunity to be still and breathe in the solitude: to sit and contemplate, recharge, think or just be. Besides mountain biking there are a number of things you can do with your family, day or night game drives, veld picnics, star gazing, fossil and stone-age tool hunting, hiking, bird watching and tent sleepouts.

GPS: 32°55′10.6″S 022°22′30.2″E