From camping on beaches up the West Coast to living in a tree house in the Knysna forest, over the past four years my partner and I have been searching for the ultimate piece of African paradise. We’ve come very close to finding it, but we’ve often missed the mark along the way and had to take cold showers in the middle of winter, sleep in bunk beds, and fight off poisonous spiders. But it’s all part of our adventure.

As part of our quest we recently stayed at Botlierskop Private Game Reserve in the magnificent Outeniqua Mountains. We’d been to game reserves before, but they all felt awfully touristy. We were hoping Botlierskop might be different.

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