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Touwsberg Private Game & Nature Reserve is untouched by human intervention and offers a rapidly disappearing quality of living to resident-owner: Excellent security combined with unrestricted adventure. Within the confines of resident-controlled entrance, the reserve entertains a large variety of game and flora in self-contained biological and geological eco-systems
Touwsberg Private Game and Nature reserve possesses what can only be regarded as a divine abundance of the vital components of a successful game farm.
ECO GAME RESERVE
A distinctive characteristic of this eco-game reserve is the predominance of dwarf shrubs with succulent leaves. This sub-region has one of the richest concentrations of succulent plants in the world. These distinct floral areas are part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, which is designated as one of the earth’s six plant kingdoms.
The flora on the reserve is a combination of typical Karoo Fynbos and succulents that offer an excellent natural home to smaller game such as klipspringer, steenbok, duiker, and springbok, and larger game such as Cape mountain zebra, red hartebeest, kudu, eland, gemsbok (oryx) and black wildebeest.
Natural predators like leopard, caracal (rooikat) and jackal, supported by black eagles, owls, and falcons, and more than 160 other bird species including lapwings, kori bustards, and Egyptian geese maintain the ecological balance. Bush tea and a variety of proteas, Erica and Gladioli are some of the species of flora to be found naturally in the mountains.
Notably, this particular nature reserve is blessed with an abnormal underground water storage capacity. The natural Karoo air is famous for its ability to treat and restore respiratory problems.
CLIMATE
The climate is conducive to physical and mental wellness. A north westerly wind sets the tone in winter and a south-easter in summer. The arrival of rain will be announced by both animal and the easterly wind. The combined summer and winter rainfall ranges between 250 - 300 mm per annum.
Temperature varies between 16 and 35° C. Clear, sunny days, unmatched in these times of urban pollution, secure both maximum daytime for adventure and cloudless night skies for day’s end respite. |
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