Touwsberg Private Game & Nature Reserve is located between the towns of Barrydale and Ladismith on the R62, approximately 290 km from Cape Town.

Accommodation is provided in a solar-powered, self-catering cottage called Kyknet. The cottage comprises 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Two of the bedrooms each contain a double bed. The third bedroom contains 2 bunk beds.

The living area is open-plan and the kitchen contains a fridge-freezer, a microwave, a gas stove, an oven, crockery, and cutlery. The living area has a comfortable couch and a dining area with a built-in braai. The living area leads out onto a verandah with an outdoor table with benches and a fire pit with seating. The cottage offers a 360-degree view of the mountains and vast Karoo landscape.

The game commonly spotted on the reserve includes eland, kudu, bontebok, oryx, springbuck, white-tailed gnu, red hartebeest, Cape mountain zebra, giraffe, mountain reedbuck, grey rhebok and duiker. The reserve also hosts natural predators like the leopard, caracal and jackal, supported by the black eagle, owl and falcon.

Due to the Reserve’s topographic, geological and climatic diversity, 3 of the globally recognised Biodiversity hotspots namely, the Cape Floral Region, semi-arid succulent Karoo and subtropical thicket can be identified here. This sub-region has the world’s richest concentration of succulent plants, the dwarf shrub with its succulent leaves being predominant. Honeybush tea and a variety of proteas, erica and gladioli are some of the species of flora to be found naturally in the mountains.