Where you will feel welcome...

Skeiding is a working ostrich farm in the Heidelberg area… close to the N2 and halfway (250 km) between Cape Town and Knysna. This makes us the ideal stopover. A friendly family farm, an education for city slickers, a place to relax and enjoy beautiful mountain views as the farm is situated on high, open rolling terrain. We Neels and Anné-Lize are two energetic people who love life …you need to be to run a farm, a young family (Anné and Pieter), two dogs (Asterix and Jessie) and a guesthouse in the same lifetime.

Our rooms and cottages have all you need to feel pampered: Honesty Bar, Tea and Coffee making facilities, En suite bathrooms with strong showers, Heater, Ceiling fan, Electric blankets, Ostrich leather slippers and gown, Hair dryers and good South African Port (on the house !) to enjoy on the patio as a sundowner. The rooms and cottages are named after birds commonly found in our area … which is a real birders’s paradise.

Ossie the Ostrich
(Struthio camelus nr 1)
… The biggest bird in the world …
This room is inside the main homestead with a private entrance that opens onto spectacular Langeberg Mountain views. It have a double bed and full bathroom (shower and bath). It can be interleding with the Blue Crane room for a family suite.

Blue Crane
(Anthropoides paradiseus nr 208)
… South Africa’s elegant National bird …
…flocks of up to a 100 can sometimes be seen …
This room is also in the main homestead with a wheelchair friendly bathroom (shower) and twin or king size bed. It can be interleding with Ossie the Ostrich room for a family suite.

The two cottages each have a living area, main bedroom and a bathroom with a shower. They can serve as self-catering cottages. It sleeps maximum four (two adults and two children who sleeps on a sleeper couch in the living area). A Dover stove in the living area will keep you warm and cosy in the winter months.

Southern Red Bishop
( Euplectes orix nr 824)
… spectacular flocks of red and black birds in reedbeds …
Fitted with a twin or king size bed.

Guineau Fowl
( Numida meleagris nr 203)
… grey bodied, flecked with white …
Fitted with a queen size bed

Food & Cuisine
Enjoy home cooked country cuisine prepared by Anné-Lize and her small team of able and enthusiastic assistants (Rachel, Allen, Ennie and Aletta). Neels is the meat “chef” on the open fire, unless farm work calls him away. A three course menu is served every evening at the family dining table.
Enjoy local wines of the region, particularly the Robertson and Bonnievale area.