This is here.

Here, where the San once dwelt and left us their legacy of rock paintings, today lives a diverse community of people drawn together by the beauty, tranquillity, the clean mountain air; the stunning views of the Outeniqua mountain range.

Ruiterbos offers a family-wide variety of activities:

hiking & biking trails, quad & 4x4 routes, a carthorse stud, cart rides, touch farm, a schizophrenic restaurant (or is it a deli?)

And - every backwater has one - the local general dealer cum fine art gallery!

The accommodation options are as diverse as the fynbos they’re set in.
	Riverside camps, rugged (and not so rugged) self-catering mountain hideaways, a well equipped B&B and a grand, four-star family owned mountain inn.

	These are just a few of my favourite things.
	But take a closer look at the hot spot pages and make an acquaintance with the people who live in my valley. Not many people know about us, so come and visit and one day you too can say: "I knew Ruiterbos when..."

Woodworkers, jewellers, metalworkers and artists; cuisine queens, yoga teachers and even someone to read your birth chart. Essential oils, organic vegetables, home-smoked meat and a musician or two.

A family who are passionate about preserving the tradition of Percheron plough horses.

Traditional farmers live here, some descending directly from the Settlers, and the “in-kommers” (new arrivals) who have fled the cities and sought shelter here to pursue their crafts.