New camps in Golden Gate

TWO new rest camps have opened at the Golden Gate Highlands National Park – the Mountain Retreat and Qwa Qwa rest camps, while the existing Glen Reenen rest camp has undergone a refurbishment. The building of the new rest camps was completed earlier this year, but the interiors were recently finished, which has seen locally designed and manufactured furniture and units installed in all the units. Mountain Retreat is situated 2 200m above sea level offers luxury family log cabins and double accommodation log cottages, sleeping a total of 32 people. The Qwa Qwa rest camp is built near to the Basotho Cultural Village – a popular cultural village which showcases the Basotho nation. The camp offers economy self-catering facilties. The Glen Reneen rest camp has been upgraded and extended and now offers semi-luxury and economy self-catering family cottages and economy self-catering units – a total of 31 units. The existing rondavels were refurbished, old staff houses were converted into tourism accommodation and 10 new two-bed units were constructed. (Lucy Siebert)