Tourism Grading Council AA Accommodation Finalist 2003
2005 Finalist Heritage Accommodation AA Awards
3 Star Gusthouse Grading T.G.C.S.A.
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Onse Rus has been at the heart of Prince Albert since 1852 capturing its warm and friendly ambience under its thatched roof. It’s now evolved into a comfortable 3 star guesthouse. You’ll immediately feel at home as you slow down to the relaxed pace of country life and take time to experience the simple beauty. Each of the 5 en suite guest rooms offers their own special character. Then there is the generous Onse Rus farmhouse breakfast of homemade muesli, fresh farm dairy, fruit juice, bacon and eggs with mouth watering local preserves. Just wait until you taste the cream! While hiking, spot Grysbok or Kudu dashing across your path through cool wooded kloofs or Klipspringer and Reebok bounding up the slopes ahead while eagles wheel amongst the towering Swartberg peaks. Fuel the less energetic soul with an early morning stroll through the veld or the town or simply put your feet up and relax under a pepper tree or sit by the fire with a good book and a glass of local wine. Simple, home cooked evening meals are also served by arrangement.
Leave the Route 62 at Calitzdorp, Oudtshoorn or De Rust to follow the Swartberg Loop. This will bring you through some of the most breathtaking mountain scenery in South Africa to the Southern edge of the Great Karoo where you will discover the small town of Prince Albert nestling at the foot of the mighty Swartberg. The village is a living record of South African rural life over the last two centuries during which well watered orchards and colourful gardens have been patiently coaxed from the harsh African wilderness.
Prince Albert is the gateway to the Swartberg. This massive range forms the Southern edge of the African continental plate. Its tortured rock formations thrusting high above the plains bear’s timeless testimony to the ancient tectonic collisions of a world in the making. Here, the Creator had fun. The great symphonic swirls of multi-hued sandstone strata cut through by deep ravines separate the narrow terraces of the Little Karoo from the great interior plateau named “The Dry Country” or Karoo by the ancient San people. Explorers writers and artists of past centuries – la Vaillant, Lawrence Green, Pierneef, Schreiner – have traversed these plains and captured the dramatic impact and magic of its landscapes and wildlife in words and pictures for generations of travellers to come. The Swartberg are a magnificent backdrop to the village of Prince Albert. Once considered impenetrable, there are now three routes – the Swartberg Pass, Meiringspoort and Seweweekspoort - linking the Great Karoo with the Little Karoo and the coast. The Swartberg Loop takes you though two of them -Meiringspoort and the Swartberg Pass. Both are on Prince Albert’s doorstep, and with there awesome beauty and many opportunities for recreation, should be on every visitor’s itinerary.
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Address 47 Church Street Prince Albert Western Cape 6930
Directions N1 to Prince Albert Road then onto R407 to Prince Albert.
Route 62 to Oudtshoorn via N12 to Meiringspoort & R407
to Prince Albert or via the Swartberg pass
