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Tallinn, Estonia

From Antonia and Desmond: 

We’ve been looking to buy a cabin for years, but never found one that felt right: close-ish to Cape Town (our home base), super private and located in nature, etc. In early 2017 we found and bought this almost three hectare property close to the beautiful Bain’s Kloof Pass in the Western Cape of South Africa. The pass (25 kilometers) was built in 1849, it was seen as the gateway between Cape Town and the north. We decided to build our tiny dream cabin: thirty square meters of living space (plus a loft bedroom of twelve square meters) and a sixty square meter deck. Our wooden structure cabin is located high on a mountain slope in a nature reserve. It can only be reached by foot or a 4x4 vehicle. We just finished the cabin in time for the national Corona-lockdown we are experiencing in South Africa (extended until 30 April 2020). The best part of this cabin is that it is so isolated, set in Fynbos (natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa) and yet only 1.5 hours drive from Cape Town. Here you can find rock paintings, spot Klipspringers (a small buck with Mountain goat type claws), baboons, Cape Cobras, Dassies, Leopard’s, and many birds, to mention a few. Also, a wide range of flora endemic to this area can be found. In the valley we have a lovely river spot for refreshing swims.