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Accommodation at one of the world’s best hotels now at affordable prices

Set against the lower slopes of the Drakenstein mountains in Franschhoek in the Western Cape is a hotel voted one of the world’s best by the readers of the most prestigious global travel magazines. It is also a working farm that produces olive oil and wine for sale, as well as fruit such as plums, citrus, kumquat, quince and pomegranate for use in the hotel’s kitchen.

With 650 plum trees, the sweet scent of the fruit perfumes the air. Cabernet and Shiraz grapes hang heavily on the

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