Car rental at Bloemfontein airport can be easily found to have the car you need for your travels around the province. Bloemfontein International underwent some revamping and the results mean quicker and more efficient service for all visitors. The city is only ten kilometres east of the city. There are various guesthouses’ and hotels, and more recently some enterprising farmers have opened their homes to foreign visitors. So if you want to get a feel of what it is like on a real African farm life is about, then this is the answer.

The hospitality is phenomenal, with the whole farm family and staff waiting on “hand and foot”. As for the beautiful cottage like rooms, with well maintained lawn and colourful window flower boxes are picture card perfect. Inside thick duvets and feather pillows, to keep you comfy and you can even ask for an old fashioned bed pan warmer. This long wooden handled instrument with a copper pan at one end that is heated over the hearth.
Be prepared to pick up a few extra kilos, as the portions are enormous and the hostess frowns upon those who knot finish. Breakfast for example is fit for a king. Thick farm porridge, with a blob of farm butter and fresh farm milk, then eggs, bacon “boerewors” (farmer’s sausage), beans and deep fried fritters. This is all washed down with two cups of sweet strong coffee and accompanying Buttermilk Rusk-biscuits.