Askham Accommodation | Rooipan Guesthouse Accommodation | Askham | Northern Cape | Green Kalahari | South Africa |
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Managers: Lizette Knoetze
Telephone:
+27 (0)54 902 ask for 912 411
Please call
for booking/info, no email facilities
available
Mobile: +27 (0)82 415 1579
Directions/Address:
Between Uington and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park,
Northern Cape, South Africa (turn left at hte R360
sign to Koopansoudand follow the dirt road for about
2km)
Send an E-mail
enquiry
Current rates and bookings
Map: Click
to view location
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Fan
in rooms
Swimming Pool
Braai facilities
Walking trails
Stargazing
Birding
Soutpan Sundowners
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Rooipan
Guesthouse - Accommodation Askham
Accommodation | Northern Cape | Green Kalahari | South
Africa |
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The warm
and frriendly Rooipan Guesthouse is located on the sheep
farm Rooipan, named after the striking red colour of
the main pan on the farm near where the original farmhouse
was built. The farm is halfway between Upington and
the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (turn left at the R360
sign to Koopansoud and follow the dirt road for about
2km).
We can accommodate a maximum of 8 people in 1 double
and 2 tripple rooms.
1 Tripple room have an en-suit bathroom with the other
2 rooms share one bathroom.
Guests are welcome to cater for themselves, but home-cooked
local food(not to be missed andhighly reccomended)
is also served in the farmhouse. True Kalahari Lamb,
nabbas, roosterkoek and tsama melons are well worth
trying and melktert is a speciality. Be sure to ask
the Knoetze family about the history of the farm and
of farming in the Kalahari.
Guests may use of the swimming pool and braai area,
and are welcome to wander around the farm. A two hour
walking trail is a recent addition.
The trail passes a former Bushmen dwelling. Ostrich
eggs used to store water and presumed to be some 100
years old, were found in the area and are now on display
in the farmhouse. Stargazing is a
must in the Kalahari. Other nocturnal activities include
mini-expeditions led by Lizette Knoetze in search
of the amazing barking gecko. Click here to read more
about the Barking Gecko.
Birding is
a favourite pastime in the Kalahari, but at Rooipan
you won't even have to walk very far. Paul, the tame
Kori Bustard, will be pleased if you offer him some
tsamma melons. Kori Bustards are the largest flying
birds in Southern Africa, weighing up to 19kg. Paul
prefers walking sedately through the gardens at Rooipan
though, so you are sure to see him.
Be sure not tho miss the picture perfect soutpan
sundowners at an additional cost.
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are qouted per person:
Bed Only R225
Bed and dinner R325
Bed, breakfast and dinner R380
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