This eccentic accommodation is famous for its romantic treehouses. Built high into an old oak tree the Treehouse offers romantic accommodation to make memories that last. With its sunken jucuzzi built high into the tree and view of the Drakensberg you will be hard pressed to find a more romantic place anywhere in South Africa.

This unique accommodation a b&b garden suite and romantic accommodation in treehouses. Built high into an old oak tree the Treehouse offers accommodation that will bring back your childhood.  Maybe that's why its called "The House of our Seventh Childhood". The Fantasy House on the other hand is built into a cluster of Cedar Trees with the branches hugging the structure. This is the place for exploring your fantasies. The bottle tree house is the newst in the family buit between 2 mature pin oaks featuring a large jacuzzi in the bedroom, private lounge with fireplace. The structure has been artisticly designed using old bottles which reflect creating subtle light and a romantic atmosphere. . The bed and breakfast guesthouse offer a large spacious garden suite with its own entrance and jacuzzi spa bath.  Of course what would life be like without dinner and breakfast and that's what we are good at providing. In our large artistically decorated candlelit dinning room with a cozy fireplace your taste buds will be pampered. 

Sycamore Avenue is perfectly situated to explore South Africa 's renown tourist route, the Midlands Meander and the Drakensberg Mountains. Not only can Sycamore Avenue be used as a base to explore the Drakensberg Mountains, the arts and crafts of the Midlands Meander, wildlife in the Weenen Game Reserve and the region's historic battlefields but it is also a perfect location to relax and recharge your soul with its well a wooded garden in an old fashioned English style. This country house is the first stop on the Midlands Meander from the northern approach and makes for a perfect destination to explore the region for travellers from Johannesburg to Durban (Coast). Drive through an avenue of splendid Sycamore Trees to our comfortable and charming accommodation.

Our lounge is a great place to relax before dinner, meet other guests and enjoy a cocktail. The garden provides quite privacy for gentle walks, bird watching with beautiful views of the Drakensberg mountains.

This in a scenic part of KwaZulu Natal Midlands, green in the spring, lush in the summer, with drifts bright yellow & orange leaves in the autumn. Winter brings a promise of crisp cold nights with log fires and old brown sherry

So you are looking for romantic accommodation with a difference. Well you have just found it. Our romantic treehouse is the only one on the KwaZulu Natal Midlands Meander and its design is unigue in South Africa.

Live life our on a limb. Lie in a hammock, read, relax or watch the birds. See the beautiful sunset over Giants Castle in the Drakensberg enjoy a glass of wine on the sun deck 6 meters up in a large Oak tree

Its called the house of our seventh childhood in Zulu "Isikala sonke dlala - The place where we play" and is built as high as we could get it. Made from wood cut & sawn on the farm The Treehouse has an open air shower, fire place, bedroom with a double bed with electric blanket for winter. Believe it or not we have even fitted a jacuzzi. 

The balcony of the treehouse looks out onto a spectacular view of the Drakensberg directly onto Giants Castle. Deep within the boughs of the tree there is a deck fitted with a double hammock. A shady secluded spot ideal to read, relax, and while away the hours in talk, assisted by nourishing little slurps of your favourite beverage. Even the sunken Jacuzzi up in the tree has a view of Giants Castle. Furniture is hand hade from local woods embellished by traditional beadwork. 

Your privacy can only be disturbed by the munching of grass by the occasional cow or horse in the field below.

Tree houses inspire dreams, and represent freedom from adulthood, from duties and responsibilities from an earthbound perspective. If we can’t fly with birds we can at least nest with them.

THE HOUSE OF OUR SEVENTH CHILDHOOD!

At Sycamore we use as many local ingredients as possible in the preparation of food as we can. Here are some of the dishes we cook.

A leg of lamb from Revel in The Kamberg is a wonder, deeply coloured & barely fatty, we de-bone it, & lightly score the flesh on the inside then stuff with mint, coriander, lightly fried onion & garlic bread. Then tie it into a neat parcel with string, place on a bed of bay & thyme & roast gently under bacon ,surrounded with little onions, & yellow sweet potatoes until brown & succulent, & almost pink in the middle, served with tender Broccoli, Glazed cinnamon carrots, & Basmati rice ,this is a dish to seduce even a vegetarian.

Unashamedly carnivorous is a roll of beef produced in the nearby Lowlands valley, red & perfectly matured with tightly tied , yellow fat outside, lightly marbled inside, we roast this rolled in seasoned flour on a bed of sliced onions & Rosemary, adding now & then a slosh of red wine, left to stand a while & served with runner beans & sweet pumpkin from our garden, the thickly sliced beef combines wonderfully with roast potatoes & horseradish sauce, flooded of course with lashings of rich brown gravy to mop up with wedges of home baked bread.

We can hardly bear to cook one of Ron Gold's free range chickens I'm sure he knows them all by name and pretends he is a tough guy & denies this (how else could he kill them?) While the going's good & before his sensitive nature kicks in, we get as many of these fine plump & tender fowl as possible. We stuff them under them between skin & flesh with garlic & fresh green coriander paste then roast on a bed of coriander stalks onion, Garlic greens & the giblets, which contribute to the gravy. This we like to serve with lentil brown rice & seasonal vegetables.

Vegetarians don't despair! For you we go to special lengths & prepare garden salads of lettuce, crisp green peas, celery , fennel, wild asparagus, water cress from the stream ,garnished with local goats cheese & free range eggs. You won't have to exist only on salad however, as we combine seasonal vegetables in many ways using nuts, lentils, beans ,rice, maize ,peas, mushrooms (both wild & cultivated) & of course aubergines & sweet cherry tomatoes from our garden. We bake fresh bread white & brown enriched & flavoured with sesame ,linseed caraway & aniseed. Fresh trout comes from the nearby mountains & is popular with many almost vegetarians. We make our own pasta & bottle & preserve the excess fruits & vegetables from the garden.

Breakfast is on the balcony with a view over rolling farmland with Giants Castle in the background, always fresh fruits, yogurt, & cereals. We rely heavily on Gail's yellow yolked, free range eggs. Her hens are a delight to behold, pecking happily away in the sun & chomping on fresh green cabbage,& bundles of Lucerne (this makes the yolks yellow). These eggs we fry, poach, scramble, boil or make omelett's from. Our specialty is a scromlette, which is a combination of scrambled & omelett & is made with parsley, & pecorino cheese, with the merest hint of peppadew, utterly scrumptious. Eaten with fried Rosemary potatoes, bacon, grilled tomato & either home baked scones or caraway rolls, Sometimes as a treat we accompany breakfast with wild mushrooms or spicy little sausages. Fresh coffee or tea ,toast & jam or marmalade & honey completes the meal.

Gloria is the magician who conjures up desserts, apple pies & crumbles using apples from our own trees, tipsy tarts tasting faintly of Brandy, steamed puddings bursting with sultanas, bread & butter puddings which come to the table bubbling like small volcanoes & waiting to be drenched with custard or farm cream. She makes tarts & flans of strawberries, gooseberries, and jiggi-jolos, a wild bramble that grows here in profusion. Trifles & slightly boozy, fruity jellies & of course locally made ice cream. Yum.