Stand for Sale - Mountainlands Nature Reserve

This exceptional reserve near Barberton in South Africa is world famous for its unique geology and natural heritage. Inscribed in the World Heritage list in July 2018. Encompassing 18,000 hectares (44,480 acres), it offers excellent game viewing, a wilderness / bush experience and an unparalleled opportunity to acquire your own piece of Africa.

Mountainlands brings you the opportunity to purchase one of only eighteen highly exclusive 1-hectare private stands (10 sold only 8 remaining!) where you can build your own private game lodge or holiday home. It offers piece of mind and full title ownership in a large wilderness area which is professionally managed.

Just imagine a secluded hide-away 3,5 hours from Pretoria / Johannesburg, 45 minutes from bustling city centre, Mbombela and 15 minutes from Barberton town for necessities. With both the world-renowned Kruger National Park and the picturesque town Kaapsehoop just 1-hour’s drive for day trips. Your own secret world of crystal streams and dappled shade, where krantzes echo the call of starlings and the bark of bushbuck or baboon. Imagine your own nature reserve, a leopard’s wide-eyed stare blazing in the lion-colored grass; red hartebeest like a frieze on a sunset hill and impala’s eyes like a galaxy of green stars in the torch-light. Imagine being there after work on Friday. Imagine your neighbors being plains game such as kudu, eland, blue wildebeest, zebra, giraffe, waterbuck, red hartebeest, buffalo, rib buck and impala; forest animals such as duiker and bushbuck, bush pigs, warthogs, leopards, caracals, brown hyenas, jackals and more than 270 bird species recorded. Furthermore, this area’s plant species diversity is second only in southern Africa to the Cape Fynbos and is markedly higher than that of the Kruger National Park. The unique geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt underlies a diversity of approximately 2176 plant species discovered to date. Imagine walking the mountains in a time before motorcars, when ox wagons creaked up stony inclines, and all that broke the horizon were mountains and flat-crowned thorn trees. Imagine what it would be like to find a place that looked as wild and beautiful today – and free of malaria. This is Mountainlands Nature Reserve.

Eagles Perch – R9,900,000 - Full title, serviced land; Including VAT and transfer costs

This is a site for the insatiably romantic, eternal adrenaline junkie. Here, you need to be able to afford seriously creative design and construction. Like a rock climber’s bivouac, you will want to be anchored safely to the precipice but as invisible as a family of sunbathing dassies. Your 300° view overlooks a hidden valley, unseen by anyone but yourself. You are often with the birds among the clouds, only just low enough to hear your very own forested mountain stream whispering past the base of your cliff-side home. Get there if you can!

This site is spectacularly unusual. It is perched almost impossibly on the spine of a high rocky ridge, a splintered dyke of Archaean banded chert, descending from a grassy peak towards the west. Near-vertical, the site looks out over a forested mountain stream that cuts through the dyke at right angles, some fifty meters below.

The foreground is fresh air, the realm of eagles, rock pigeons and red winged starlings. The ridge is narrow like a notched dragon’s back dotted with hardy Stamvrug and Cussonia trees rooted in crevices. The surrounding slopes are all montane grassland with pristine forested kloofs. The building site is located at a prominent notch in the ridge where a pylon & strut, deck-based construction may be fitted in without breaking the skyline. The spaces allow for a two lobed structure, one facing north, over a very long drop into the forest canopy below and the other facing south overlooking the hidden valley that extends above to the peaks of the Wonderscheur ridge.

The view is varied and breath-taking. It extends to the distant granite domes above Nelspruit to the north and the imposing bulk of Saddleback Mountain to the south. The footprint extends narrowly along the ridge with an extension towards the south-west to provide access for vehicles and services.

Cannot believe this can be yours?? Book a private viewing to experience the magic yourself.