Doornkloof Private Nature Reserve is halfway between Worcester and Robertson, an ideal two-hour drive from Cape Town, but it feels like you've entered another world.

The 500-hectare reserve is home to bountiful birdlife, small game, leopard, bush pigs, a migrant troop of baboons, and only four human residences. Doornkloof is situated next to a game farm for added wildlife viewing opportunities.

This modern, off-the-grid guesthouse with limited cell phone reception and no Internet, is secluded without being remote.