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SkyWind Cottages, designed to fill a unique niche in our self catering accommodation, are without a doubt the best romantic getaways in the Eastern Free State. In today’s busy, noisy, hectic pace of life, many couples seek accommodation for just two, where they can spend time with each other in solitude and privacy.

Are you looking for the best family getaway in the Eastern Free State, a self-catering cottage with loads of space, awesome views, seldom found privacy and seclusion, remote yet accessible, that touch of something special?

The white stork ciconia ciconia, that beautiful soaring bird of myth and fable, one of our absolute favourite birds here at Amohela ho Spitskop, and we await their arrival from Europe each year with excitement and anticipation. However a prolonged drought with very little rainfall here in the Eastern Free State seemed that, for the first time in many years, we would not be visited by any White Storks this year when they began their South Africa pilgrimage in December..January....and we were sad sad sad......

When resident locally the awesome Secretary Birds stand atop their tree roost and greet the newly risen sun.
Stretching and preening with amazing balance they ready themselves for the flight back to earth & another day of hunting ........

Holidays, Long Week Ends, Easter.
School Holidays – 15th March to 2nd April 2019.
Easter 19th April to 22nd April 2019.

We have the place, the space, the time, the silence, the solitude, the stars, the mountain, just bring you and the family, for our EarthStone Cottages are superb, spacious, well appointed, far removed from each other for privacy and solitude and our SkyWind Cottages, indulgently gorgeous, where just two people can spend time together in quietness luxury and space.