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Cliffside, Hermanus, Overberg

There’s something to be said about rising from the comfiest bed, layered in utter luxury, slipping away from the sheets and into a robe. The shutters have lifted themselves to reveal the view that unravels over the succulents, the fynbos and rose geranium, across the rolling lawns and into the ocean below. The morning sun is dancing on the tide’s curling waves as spears of silver pierce those sleepy eyes, encouraging you to make your way down to the tidal pool to brave the water that laps around the boulders. Back and forth you paddle and wade through the cold that turns to warmth and then to fire. Igniting an invigorating and deeply pacifying feeling of gratitude. This moment is yours, alone in the ocean’s pool, with the whales, the seals and seagulls just beyond reach. Yes, there’s something indelible to be said about how your days begin at Cliffside.

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Kerala, Bainskloof Pass, Worcester

It takes an extraordinary kind of place to stir up nostalgia so wittingly, without being too blatant about it. Rather furtively waking up that inner child who’s been wistfully waiting to run wild. A place that reminds us about our core values and why we hold them so close to our hearts. A place that stimulates the senses as fluidly as it pacifies. It asks pertinent questions. How we see the world around us and the people we choose to decorate our lives with. The way we love them and, in turn, ourselves. When we discover such a rare place and find all of the answers to those questions, we’ll leave an entirely new person. Just as that extraordinary place intended you to part from it. Kerala is that place. As close as it is to Cape Town – just a 90 minute drive – you’ll find yourself in another world entirely, one where everything you’d need, want, or desire appears magically yet unobtrusively at your fingertips. Consciously created as an all-inclusive experience, Kerala is also exclusive use, to ensure this experience is shared only with your chosen ones.

Lions Head Villa,

Fresnaye, Atlantic Seaboard, Cape Town

Graciously emerging from the ankles of the mountain – overlooking the tiered terrain of the Atlantic Seaboard beneath and all the way out across the ocean – Lions Head Villa wilfully whisks you away to the Mediterranean with its Provençal charm, yet simultaneously settles you into the stillness of the African soil it harnesses itself upon. Set on four levels of dual dwellings –two individual maisonettes that can either be independent or interlinked with each other – this hideaway masters the marriage of classical with contemporary and innovation with imitation. The grandeur of its Cape Georgian bones blend seamlessly with the rustic, à la mode environment it inhabits.

Schrywershoek, Schrywershoek, West Coast

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Owloon, Paarl, Cape Town, Cape Winelands

Owloon is completely off-grid with abundant energy. A natural spring set deep at the end of the valley feeds crystal-clear filtered water into the swimming dam in front of the cottage, while a natural waterfall flows in the gorge between autumn and spring. Below the dam, near the gracious entrance to the farm – in what was a drought-stricken, uninviting landscape when purchased a few years ago – racehorses at Owloon Stud now enjoy gloriously green paddocks. It was this vision that inspired the owner to buy the original farm. Now made up of a total of 11 adjoining farms purchased over the past six years, the hillsides are covered in thriving lemon, lime and clementine orchards, a grove of pomegranates and Cabernet Franc vines, all of which are pesticide-free.

Above these flourishing orchards, a world-class mountain biking trail awaits on the farm. Used this year for the first time by leading cycling professionals, it’s geared towards the professional rider who enjoys a stiff challenge in a superb mountain-top setting

Dawn Villa Constantia, Cape

Town

The reputable property owners of Dawn Villa had a vision for their family, and how their home would be consciously stitched together like the finest tapestry of all time. They called upon the brilliance of Kate Delfante – a South African architect who’d worked with some of the greats and had a clear understanding of the owners’ concepts. Employed the hands of their father – a meister of the building industry who was naturally privy to the threads of their tapestry. Together they layered together their ideas, expertise and passion, and produced a contemporary masterpiece that evolves as an immediate extension of Table Mountain’s own emerald tapestry.

Beau Constantia Villa

Constantia, Cape Town

Revered as one of the most scenic spots in the Constantia winelands, Beau Constantia is home to over 22 hectares of undulating slopes of lawn and natural fynbos vegetation, 11 hectares of elevated vines – 350 metres above sea level – a wine tasting room, the sublime dining space of Chefs Warehouse and an avant-garde villa, overlooking the valley, its mountain ranges and all the way out to False Bay. It goes without saying that the views that unravel from every aspect of this boutique wine farm are truly breathtaking. As if you’re planted into the biosphere of Constantia Nek, with its lush greenery and canopy of trees, and uplifted to soar in line with the Stellenbosh and Helderberg mountain ranges in the distance. Settled below the hum of the wine farm, embedded into the rolling emerald slopes, Beau Constantia’s villa spans itself over two monolithic levels of a contemporary masterpiece, demanding a rousing round of applause. Its vast open spaces for entertaining, dining, reclining and endless admiring are constructs of the master-architectural-mind, Jon Jacobson of Metropolis

Icaria Bantry Bay, Atlantic Seaboard, Cape Town

Suspended on the steep mountain slopes over Cape Town’s iconic Atlantic Seaboard is an astonishing hidden treasure. Icaria is a delightful surprise in every way. The first surprise is that this most sought-after – and densely developed – address in Africa actually houses a pristine finger of Table Mountain National Reserve that reaches down from the mountain slopes to tickle the swelling waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The second is that the entire southern edge of Icaria – the largest residential erf in the entire area – blends into this pristine, fynbos-covered nature reserve. As I smoothly glide up in the funicular from busy Victoria Road I encounter the best surprise of all: utterly secluded and tranquil Icaria.