Platbos Forest Reserve

03/09/2026

🌸 Stanford in Bloom and a weekend in the forest 🌿🐝

Planning to visit Stanford in Bloom 2026 next weekend? Why not make a weekend of it and retreat to the tranquility of Platbos Forest?

Our Honey Bee Suite offers a cosy, peaceful escape surrounded by ancient indigenous forest - the perfect place to slow down after a day of exploring Stanford’s beautiful flower display and village atmosphere.

🌸 Stanford in Bloom 2026
🐝 Retreat to the Honey Bee Suite at Platbos
🌿 Unwind beneath the trees
🌙 Spend a night or 2 immersed in nature

Come for the flowers. Stay for the forest. 💚

The Honey Bee Suite is available next weekend - enquire with us for availability and bookings or see the link in the first comment to book online. 🌸

01/09/2026

🌸🌿 As September arrives, the forest awakens • Welcome, Spring, at Platbos Forest Reserve 🌿🌸

26/08/2026

This time of year in the Forest has to be my most favourite! The dawn chorus greets each new day with unbridled joy! The Celtis africana are in bud and spring bulbs and annuals are celebrating with their gorgeous scents and forms! Come soak up the Forest Therapy in one of our private accommodation units (featured here is our Honey Bee Suite with its own hot tub) 🌳💚🌳💚🌳

25/08/2026

21/08/2026

Meet Gerhard van Deventer, owner of Sandberg Fynbos Reserve and a man who has spent 25 years protecting this remarkable landscape.
For Gerhard, hacking invasive plants is not a once-off effort — it is a lifelong commitment. His story shows what becomes possible when one person keeps showing up for nature, year after year.
🌿 This is rewilding in action.

14/08/2026

Sharing from Sandberg Fynbos Reserve: There is a slow awakening, like when the first birds tweet and you become aware of a new day after a deep slumber. We as Overberg, South Africa are there. The last few years of droughts, then a flood, January 2026 fires, followed by more floods are awaking the Southern Overberg Overstrand Municipality to the real threat of climate change due to accelerated global warming. A big burp of carbon was released with the January fires, followed by an unimaginably dense regrowth of alien trees! ....and that is the awakening! From Blompark to DeKelders, Pearly Beach to rural Baardskeerdersbos, there is an awakening ...of the real threat to our future, ALIENS! Those pesky Rooikrans and Pines and Hakea, swallowing up the landscape of Fynbos we once knew...... Thank you to groups around the greater Gansbaai area, working towards an alien free FYNBOS landscape.

It is time to stop talking and join an alien clearing group near you. friends & Gansbaai Academia GansbaaiCourant Gansbaai Tourism Baardskeerdersbos_is_lekker Baardskeerdersbos Art Route Great White Shark Tours Marine Dynamics Shark Tours Sharklady Adventures Stanford Tourism & Business Western Cape Tourism and Information Centres Department of Tourism

14/08/2026

Beautiful simplicity ... at our Owl Camp Site ☺💚🦉🌳

08/08/2026

Our wildlife Camera Traps cc are such a source of joy and affirmation of our conservation work here at Platbos Forest Reserve. Many times, the cameras will catch a blurry image, grasses waving in the wind, or a fleeting shot of a spotted tail... other times... we get videos like this:

08/08/2026

Great to be featured in Getaway's "5 of the best forest escapes in and around Cape Town"! Thank you!

The photo that goes with their write-up is not accurate (Platbos is not situated on a river and is actually half way between Stanford and Gansbaai!) but all else is spot on!

(Platbos is one of the largest remaining fragments of lowland Afromontane forest found between Grootvadersbosch and Table Mountain – less than 0.05% of the Western Cape is home to old growth forest.)

🌿Thank you Gansbaai Tourism for sharing with us 💚🌳☺

Discover five of the best forest escapes in and around Cape Town, from Newlands Forest to Platbos and Tsitsikamma, perfect for peaceful walks