Few & Far Luvhondo

Style

Conservation-led cliffside cocoon

Setting

Mountains of Limpopo

Tucked away in South Africa’s wild Soutpansberg Mountains, Few & Far Luvhondo is an all-inclusive, conservation-led escape featuring six overhanging cliff suites with views to the valley below. As well as leading tracking walks or hikes to extraordinary sleep-outs where you dine beneath the stars, your private guide also delivers a ‘magic moment’ every day — either improvised or requested specifically by you. A pool, spa treatments and exceptional dining add twists of luxury, while its carbon-reduction efforts make this a guilt-free getaway for the ages.

Facilities

Rooms

Six suites

Checkout

10am, and check-in is at 4pm. Both are flexible up to three hours either way, subject to availability and an additional fee.

More Details

Rates are all-inclusive, and include breakfast, lunch and dinner, drinks (including alcoholic beverages), game drives and walks, mountain biking, hiking, conservation-focused activities, and sleep-outs under the stars (March-October).

Also

As you can imagine, the retreat’s remoteness presents a challenge for those with limited mobility, but it isn’t entirely prohibitive. The cliff suites nearest the main lodge are reserved for you if you have accessibility concerns.

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In suites: air-conditioning, mosquito nets, binoculars, yoga mat, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, mini fridge, free bottled water, bathrobes, organic soap and bath salts.

Our Favourite Rooms

All six cliff-hanging suites are entirely private, with outdoor showers and riveting views of the valley floor and the mountains beyond. Each suite has a butler’s hatch, a small window accessed from both sides, so you won’t need to get dressed to receive the coffee or champagne you’ve ordered from reception.

Poolside

There’s a showstopping infinity pool reachable via some short steps from the main area. Plus, each suite has its own one-person plunge pool built into the veranda.

Spa

You can get private outdoor massages as well as in-room treatments on your veranda. Staff use local products from African Baobab and Healing Earth. Signature treatments include a detoxifying baobab body wrap and an outdoor bath experience.

Packing Tips

Your phone camera probably won’t cut it here. Bring your SLR or film camera to do justice to your Limpopo memories.

Also

A two-night minimum stay applies at Few & Far Luvhondo.

Children

Very welcome; extra beds and cots are available in all suites free of charge. There isn’t a specific children’s menu but dishes can be tailored to their tastes. Babysitting is also free and can be pre-booked for a couple of evenings during your stay.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

The lodge’s dining room delivers, but the real top table is out in the bush: a star-lit seat beneath the African sky.

Dress Code

You won’t need dress shirts or heels for this trip, even if the quality of the cooking deserves them.

Hotel Restaurant

Dining at Few & Far Luvhondo is less a daily ritual than a series of delicious discoveries. In the lodge restaurant, South African flavours are given a refined, seasonal spin, with elegant tasting menus showcasing the best of the region, much of it grown in the retreat’s own garden or sourced from nearby farmers and producers. Elsewhere, evenings might unfold around a crackling Boma Braai, where smoky, fire-cooked dishes and local traditions take centre stage, or with an evening that blends food, music and storytelling into a celebration of the culture that surrounds the lodge.

The most memorable meals, though, are those served beneath Luvhondo’s endless skies. A bush dinner turns supper into a true wilderness experience: lantern-lit tables, the scent of the chef’s creations, and the soundtrack of the Soutpansberg unfolding around you. Pair it with a spot of stargazing, from your private deck or a cosy camp set-up in the bush, and you’ve got a seriously memorable mealtime.

Hotel Bar

The bar is great for a pre- or post-dinner tipple, though the sundowner experience doesn’t stop there. You can also sip your way through the wilderness from a choice of spectacular viewpoints. As for the wine list, small South African vineyards are championed, with a focus on organic and low-intervention producers creating intriguing bottles you may not have encountered before (some not even labelled), alongside a thoughtful selection of local favourites.

Last Orders

Breakfast is served from 6am to 10:30am, lunch is noon til 3pm, and dinner is served 6:30pm until 9:30pm.

Room Service

Available from 6am until 9pm, and you can have items delivered via your butler’s hatch.

Planes

You can take an internal flight from Johannesburg to Polokwane Airport, which is an hour and a half by car from the hotel. Driving from Johannesburg to the hotel will take around five to six hours. Or, if you’re able to charter a flight, you can land at the hotel’s private airstrip.

Trains

There is a four-night journey from Victoria Falls to Johannesburg on South Africa’s luxurious Rovos Rail service that does occasionally stop at Waterpoort station, where you can arrange a pick-up. However, it's only bookable by speaking to hotel staff, giving plenty of advance notice.

Automobiles

Free transfers from Polokwane Airport can be arranged, or if you’re arriving by car yourself, there’s free parking onsite. Hotel staff are also on hand to arrange transfers by road before arrival or after departure.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

The plan for each day is entirely up to you at Few & Far Luvhondo. Your guide will be on hand with ideas, but whether you wake at 6am or 11am, have breakfast in your room or on a game drive, or spend the day at the spa or on a leopard-spotting hike, is your decision.

But you’d be wild yourself not to wake early and get out there into the Soutpansberg Mountains, a pristine wilderness area the same size as Singapore. With a higher density of wildlife than the Amazon, the 35,000 hectares the hotel has succeeded in putting into conservation is also one of South Africa’s capitals of endemism, meaning reams of plant and animal life exclusive to this one region.

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