Estate Living Magazine Alfresco Living - Issue 36 December 2018 | Page 30

Naturally
Pezula
Golf Estate
The Garden Route is a well-established tourism destination, and also a rather clichéd
second-careerist centre for rat-race refugees, but – increasingly – young families
are ‘semigrating’ to this fabulous part of the country and cyber-commuting and/or
spending short work weeks in the cities and flying back for extended weekends with
the family.
Look out from the clubhouse terrace at the Pezula Golf Estate on Home, not just a holiday
Knysna’s Eastern Head, and you’ll have more than just a view of a With the beautiful Knysna Lagoon, the backdrop of the almost
championship golf course. You’ll have a view of South Africa’s first pristine Outeniqua Mountains, and with direct access to one of the
unfenced national park: the 155,000-hectare Garden Route National most prolific areas of the Indian Ocean, Knysna must rank as one
Park (GRNP) that protects much of the landscape of the coast of the most beautiful destinations in a country of exceptional
between Wilderness and George in the west, and Tsitsikamma and destinations. And, with a fine private hospital served by
Storms River in the east. numerous specialists in almost every discipline, a number of
outstanding independent private schools, a unique marina
But the estate isn’t just a neighbour of the park, it’s also – kind of – and waterfront (with some of the best restaurants in the
part of the park because it’s built around the 45-hectare Sparrebos region), and a rapidly-growing FTTH network, it’s more than
Nature Reserve, which – while it is owned by the estate – is just an exceptional destination: it’s a wonderful place to call
registered as a portion of the GRNP. A part of a national park – those home.
aren’t bragging rights that many estates can claim.
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