Cavern Hotel, Drakensberg. With: Elsa Pooley and Gillian Condy. October 2017Written by : Jenni Saunders Turning 50 has some perks. You get gifts, and mine was six blissful days in the Drakensberg learning botanical art with legends Elsa Pooley and Gillian Condy. This was a dream come true, as a full time working mom, just […]
We have 3 children and have tried hard to make them love the outdoors. We always encouraged playing in the garden and when they were very little we urged them to play in the rain and splash in the puddles and when our OCD boy whined “I wet, I wet” we helped him to calm
There is excitement on this side of the valley; The Cavern has been awarded Best Community Impact Award by the Business Excellence Forum. There is much to smile about and much to be proud of! Sadly we weren’t able to attend the dinner in the City of Gold but our dear cousin from Montusi Lodge,
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Some of our staff were quoted in a recent report on the 15 June Meteor by the Astronomical Society of South Africa. The image below is from a Meteorite crater in 2014 in South America, and was not caused by this recent meteor, but it does show what a small meteorite can do when it
Our social (with a touch of serious) Lawn Bowls Competition has been happening for-e-v-e-r. And, it rolls around quite quickly. This year we held our tournament in October. Much earlier than previous years but Hilton had installed a pump at Charleswood Dam and so we could water even before the rains came. The greens were
My mum’s brother passed away recently. It is the finality of death that does make us all stop and reflect. There will be no more conversations, no more arguments, no more teasing and no more laughs. It’s just the memories we get to hold onto. And, this finality makes us want to love a little
Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man! Well, there were Gingerbread men and Tortoises this weekend. It’s been a spectacular couple of days of running. This is the 4th Runtheberg and once more it has been an incredibly well orchestrated event. There were approximately 550 runners, joggers,
Our grandparents arrived at The Cavern in 1941. They saw the potential of running the land as a guest farm since cattle ranching just wasn’t an option with the steep terrain and sour veld. The Cavern nature reserve is quite stunning, with forests and grasslands, hills and valleys, and it provides a great space for
It’s Tourism Month but how does that help our community? Most things in life happen because there is a need. We needed to educate our children and so we decided to build a school. The Department of Education told us we needed at least 15 children and ISASA (Independent Schools Association of South Africa) were
The Cavern has a story and a history and we are enormously grateful for the words of our guests; beautiful resort, wonderful for families, spectacular property, price-quality ratio was top, so many activities and endless possibilities…. But, in a world of modern and new, how do we continue to provide quality holidays? Each year we
