Travel that regenerates
Nature stays that give back, across South Africa and beyond
Travel that regenerates
Nature stays that give back, across South Africa and beyond
No guest service fee · Every booking funds a named cause
Conservation, built in
The places you love, better every time you return.
Every stay is tied to a conservation, community or education cause. Your booking helps keep it thriving, at no extra cost to you.
Explore the causes
Stay somewhere that gives back
Stay somewhere meaningful. No guest service fee, and every booking funds a named conservation or community cause.
Now arriving
Every spring, birds fly in from Europe, Asia and the tropics to spend summer here. This month’s arrivals, one at a time.
Photo: Donald Davesne, CC BYARRIVALS · OCTOBER
Barn Swallow. From Europe. Arriving soon.
Breeds across Europe and spends summer on our farms. Most records November to March.
See 100+ stays
Status comes from iNaturalist records by month across South Africa. Usually right, never a promise.
Search by what you’ll find there
Choose a stay by the bird, the animal or the plant you came to see. Pick one, and we show you where to book a bed within reach of it.
Search by bird
Search by biome
Nine living systems, from fynbos to savanna. Choose the one you want to wake up in, and your stay helps protect it.
Stay by style
Pick the house first: Cape Dutch gables, Karoo Victorians, thatch, sandstone and trees.
Stay by setting
Where a place sits matters as much as the room. The beach, the mountain, the river, the dam or a quiet dorp.
National parks and reserves
Stay inside Africa’s wild places. Every booking helps protect them.
Why Spekboom
The plant we’re named after
There is a plant in the Eastern Cape that does something almost no other plant can do. Push a single cutting of spekboom into broken ground, ground that has been grazed bare, burnt out, given up on, and it roots. It spreads.
It pulls carbon from the air and moisture back into the soil, and slowly, without ceremony, the land begins to live again. It does not need rich earth. It needs only somewhere to begin.
Featured destinations
Discover your favourite countries across Africa
Get involved
Every stay funds a cause
Know a cause we should be funding?
Every booking sends a share of the stay to a named conservation, community or education cause, at no extra cost to the guest. If you know an organisation that belongs here, tell us about it.
We read every suggestion and, where it fits, link the organisation to stays nearby.
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Show us your place
We feature places that give something back to where they are. We write the listing, and a share of every stay supports a cause you choose.
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