International Lifestyle Magazine Issue 57 | Page 33

For decades now the farm has opened its gates to visitors. To begin with, those visitors were family and friends but the welcome always encouraged friends of friends and many who were curious to drop in and meet these pioneers of the land. Soon the cottages were being let for weekends and the farm bred horses were bringing in their keep through new safari ventures. These days the horses and the safaris are known around the world, but the genuine and heartfelt welcome is still the same. In a rapidly changing world where community is a rare thing, family values disintegrating and neighbourly relationships a thing of the past, it is good to know there are pockets of people where these are still the core values. Triple B welcomes the wanderer; the traveller keen to find the out of the way place where relationships still matter. Triple B guarantees that you will be well fed and well watered, that your sleep will be restful and your days peaceful, it will revive your spirits in more ways than one and send you back out again refreshed and encouraged. The old stone church at 24 Rivers, just a short drive from the ranch, is still a source of spiritual renewal and, despite its location, it draws, not just Christ’s bushveld family, but the international cousins who, by way of divine nudging, have found themselves in the vicinity to worship. There is always a lift each Sunday and you may well find yourself picking up pilgrims along the way yourself. Though the community worships at 24 Rivers every Sunday, the church has its sleeves rolled up during the week also. There is much going on in the community on a daily basis from a flourishing welfare society dealing head on with the issues of AIDS, a children’s feeding scheme and two orphanages running on either side of the town. To join these operations for just a moment is both easy to organise and encouraging to the soul and so we like to offer our visitors the opportunity to get stuck in. Accommodation options range from self-catered to the Luxury Horseback Safaris offered by Horizon Horseback for more information contact Laura on [email protected] www.internationallifestylemagazine.com