The Yate Farm Retreat Guesthouse offers luxury self catering homes for your perfect traveling experience on the Garden Route, situated on a 50 hectare farm in the heart of Harkerville between Plettenberg Bay and Knysna.

The suites, which can accommodate two people, provide interior with fresh design in bright colors and modern comforts like a fully equipped kitchenette, TV, DSTV, free WiFi, and luxury bathrooms with hairdryers, free toiletries and clean and bright interior.

You will have access to the beautiful green garden with seating area, barbecue facilities and lock-up garage with bicycles for your free use, which is highly recommended since the property has easy access to mountain bike trails. You can also have hikes through the Protea fields and the indigenous areas and forests. The beach, where you can do bird watching, canoeing, whale and dolphin watching is not far, neither are places for wine tasting, restaurants and shops.

The whole area is perfect for all sort of adventurous outdoor activities like horse riding, kloofing or skydiving. The land is full of bird life, game like bush buck, steenbock or porcupine are strolling over the farm's ground.

Love for nature is one of the key qualities of the property, meaning that it not only lies in a beautiful area between mountains and fields, giving stunning views from the rooms but also that the owners are being aware of the fragility of this kingdom of beauty.

That's why the they keep their carbon footprint as low as possible and take active part in the fight for nature by alien clearing and reusing the harvested timber for furniture making on the farm, which also provides jobs for people from the local community.