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Peace of Eden – Eco Forest Retreat, Cottages, Safari Tents & Camping

Knysna Self-catering, Knysna Bed and Breakfast, Knysna Camping and Caravanning, Knysna Tented Camp in Knysna
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  • Marimba woodcutter cottage
  • Marimba kitchen
  • Marimba lounge
  • Djembe lounge
  • Gwens glade cottage
  • Djembe woodcutter cottage
  • Sunbird barn cabin
  • Bodhi barn cabin
  • Mystic Moon
  • Forest loo for safari tents and campers
  • Our friendly retired horses
  • Description
  • Facilities
This is a place where nature does all the entertaining; beautiful, a little wild, natural and peaceful. Our retreat-styled eco lodge nestles on the forest edge and abounds with creativity.

You can choose to stay in little woodcutter cottages that were once stables for our friendly horses or in a spacious converted barn, ideal for family gatherings and retreats, plus a quaint double-storey cottage among a glade of trees that oozes magical charm.

For the more adventurous nature-lover or the eco green conscious traveller, there are simply furnished forest-safari style tents on timber decks in the forest with rustic communal timber huts housing a kitchen and ablution facilities.

While you are here, you can go for early morning walks meandering along winding mossy pathways in our ancient forest where you will hear the rustle of leaves as monkeys scamper along the tops of the trees. You can also have a lazy afternoon with a book at the lotus lily pond set in our park-like gardens alive with bird songs. While dozing under an azure-blue sky you may see the shy emerald green Knysna loerie fly by, and at sunset you can stroll along to our organic vegetable garden to pick some greens for a healthy meal under a starry African night sky.

If you love nature and want to experience a more natural eco environment and don’t need luxuries to enjoy your stay, then you will find Peace of Eden enchanting.

We also have a recording studio where many well-known South African musicians have recorded their award-winning albums, and you may just be lucky enough to be visiting when we have impromptu sunset soiree evenings where you could be entertained by some of our great singers and song-writer guitarists like Nate Maingard, Gary Thomas and blues maestro Dan Patlansky.

We are 15 minutes from Knysna and only 8 km from the N2, on the pretty country road that leads to the Rheenendal village. Beyond the village is a turn-off to the Goudveld Forests, Jubilee Creek, and the historical Millwood Goldmines where you may come across signs of the illusive Knysna elephants that still roam freely in the depths of the vast mysterious Knysna forests.

Our beautiful white, sandy beaches of Buffalo Bay and Brenton on Sea and the Knysna river estuary are a mere ten minute drive away and we are an hour's drive from most of the famous attractions and adventure activities of the Garden Route. The Garden Route it now a national park and one of the safest and most beautiful places in South Africa.

If you are just passing through we are a perfect stopover en route to Addo National Park, the Eastern Cape coastline and the Wild Coast. We have a registered nature guide and offer guided forest and bird walks, township and Knysna tours, and go as far afield as Addo Elephant National Park.
  • Type: Self-catering, Bed and Breakfast, Camping and Caravanning, Tented Camp
  • Sleeps: 25
  • Check-in: 02:00 PM
    Check-out: 10:00 AM
  • Reviews: 18
  • Airport Shuttle Service
  • Babysitting Services
  • Laundry Facilities*
  • Braai/Barbecue
  • Fireplace
  • Wi-Fi
  • Credit Card Facilities

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Xhosa (isiXhosa)
  • Afrikaans
* Please enquire for further details.
18 Reviews on Peace of Eden – Eco Forest Retreat, Cottages, Safari Tents & Camping
susan bartlett, South Africa
South Africa

Excellent facility highly recommended. Truley peace of eden. Will return.

08 January 2013
Grant Wreyford, South Africa
South Africa

My family really enjoyed ourselfs and would recommend this place to friends and family.

06 January 2013
Ivan Schoeman, South Africa
South Africa

Safe, well looked after establishment with friendly helpful staff. We thoroughly enjoyed the stay in the safari tents. Best of all, the price is right.

16 April 2012
Ingrid Hermans, Netherlands
Netherlands

Very pleasant stay - back to nature. The only sound you hear is from birds and other animals. Also the staff are very nice. Thank you for the pleasant stay.

08 January 2012
Abigail Jones, South Africa
South Africa

In two words: Rustic Charm, best describes peace of eden. The accommodation was farm style and I would rate it 7/10 in its category. We had a very peaceful stay except that the walls are a bit to thin, but it still was relaxing and calming and I would recommend it to friends and family.

07 April 2010
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Barn Cabin - Sunbird Cabin

A place where sunbirds abound in the bottle brush trees that surround this little Barn Cabin. There is a double en-suite bedroom and a separate lounge with an open-plan kitchenette leading onto a covered veranda. With stained cement floors and simple furnishings this little Cabin has a modern rustic charm and has lovely views of horses grazing in the fields alongside the forest edge and stunning sunsets. There is a simple rock fire pit on the lawns in front.

   Sleeps 2 people.

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Forest Safari Tent

Feel the pulse of the forest from your double or twin bedded safari-style tent on a timber deck nestled in among the forest canopy filled with birdsong and scampering monkeys overhead. The tents are small 3 x 3.5 square metres with electric light, beds, bedding, a shelf, a small table and two chairs. It is suitable for two adults (one could fit one child on a camp mattress). Some tents have their own small rock braai and the two that are deeper in the forest have a communal braai near the kitchen. There is a communal and reasonably well-equipped rustic kitchen hut with a forest deck and ablution facilities are in rustic timber huts, one with a gas shower and one with a flush loo. In high season periods these facilities are also shared with six campsites.

   Sleeps 2 people.
R 275
Room rate

Cottage - Marimba Woodcutter Cottage

Meander along a pebble pathway through a copse of trees to the woodcutter cottages that once many years ago were stables for our two friendly horses. They are set alongside each other, though are privately appointed with one facing east and the other west. They are eclectically furnished and have high pitch wood ceilings, quarry tiled and painted cement floors giving off a cosy rustic charm. There is a double bedroom, bathroom with a shower, small galley kitchen with a bar fridge, a two plate gas cooker, a microwave, crockery and cutlery. The small open-plan lounge has a divan bed, for a child, leading onto a timber deck with a small rock fire pit on the lawn. It is ideal for a couple or a family with one child. Please note parking is a short walk away from the cottages, however, in good weather you may drive there to unpack your car and park it back at the parking area near reception.

   Sleeps 2 people.
R 475
Room rate

Cottage - Gwen’s Glade Cottage

This quaint double-storey has a cosy attic bedroom upstairs and an extra single divan bed downstairs at the end of the lounge for a third person or child. This little cottage has a fireplace, an open-plan kitchenette with small fridge, a two plate stove plus a microwave and one bathroom with a shower. The covered veranda draped in bright fuchsia bougainvillea overlooks park-like gardens alive with bird song. There is a small wrought iron fire stand outside. Please note parking is a short walk away from this cottage.

    Sleeps 3 people.
R 650
Room rate

Barn Cabin - Bodhi Cabin

This sunny timber cabin is part of the rustic Barn Traveller’s Lodge and Retreat Centre and has a spacious loft feel with creamy cement floors, woody pine ceilings, and rustic white washed walls. It can be booked as one unit for six to eight guests, or booked as individual bedrooms sharing the facilities of the kitchen, lounge as with a Backpackers Lodge. It has a small double bedroom, a twin bedroom and a twin bedded alcove and a double bunk alcove. There is a large kitchen with a gas stove, microwave, fridge-freezer, crockery, cutlery and two bathrooms with showers. A spacious open-plan lounge and a dining room area leads onto a covered veranda draped with bougainvillea and wisteria, with glorious sunset views over paddocks and our two friendly horses. Perfect for a large family, group of friends and coupled with our Bedouin Tent, it is ideal for small weddings, conferences or workshops.

       Sleeps 6 adults.
R 850
Room rate

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