Whether you're fleeing from the heat of the low plains, or from the frenetic pace of the city, the Cybele Forest Lodge and Health Spa provides your escape. Its 300 acres of terrain sit a cool 3,000 ft. above sea level and a distant 260 miles from Johannesburg, making it the perfect spot for a relaxing retreat.
Life at Cybele Forest Lodge is as busy as you decide to make it. You can ride horses in the forest, trek to a waterfall, enjoy a balloon ride, or take a daytrip to Kruger National Park. Or you may choose to spend the day at the lodge, where the veranda acts as the perfect spot to enjoy a cool drink, and the first-class restaurant is staffed by internationally trained chefs.
And then there's the spa, which is enchantingly located in a private Zen courtyard and has a host of soothing treatments from body wraps and manicures, to hydrotherapy, and thallasotherapy. At the end of a day, you'd be forgiven for wanting to turn this South African escape into a permanent way of life.