Hello my lovely! Again, I am so sorry for the radio silence but things are still pretty hectic at my end – and I think that we will be back on track again at the end of July, when all the festivities are over! So until then, please bear with me while the posts come up on various days of the week:
Camdeboo Day Spa at Irene Country Lodge
So we are back at Irene Country Lodge, where one day I took a wander up the hill and was met by the view of their Camdeboo Spa:
We were greeted by a sunshiny entrance to the spa…
These beautiful buildings date back to the 19th century
The building where the cooks used to live over a hundred years ago. Now they are used as treatment rooms painted white with that beautiful turquoise accent colour that I always fall in love with when I visit South Africa
I thought it would be suitable for us here at the blog to visit the spa, as these beautiful buildings were built in the 19th century, which makes them antique! The treatment rooms in the photo above was where the cooks used to live and now they have obviously been turned into the most beautiful treatment rooms, where you can get a relaxing massage.
While I was waiting for my massage I browsed all these lovely products – many of them made at Irene Farm
Nom nom nom I don’t know where to start – the scents are heavenly, how is one supposed to choose!?
Their fabulous local Milk Products
On the left there is a steam sauna and a regular sauna, and a shower with all kinds of advanced settings. You walk through here to go to the pool area with its sun chairs…
The outdoor treatment room – doesn’t get much more relaxing than this!
This is the Camdeboo Tree which the spa is named after. Camdeboo usually only grows in the Western Cape but somehow it has found its way to the Lodge, where it has created this beautiful forest of tranquility and beauty.
The Camdeboo Tree after which the spa has been given its name
A Camdeboo Tree stretching its branches and giving us a lovely bit of shade from the intense South African sun
The lovely spa café
The café is so lovely with a fresh and appetising menu featuring for example salads and also some wonderful smoothies, that are made while you relax by the pool.
The café area at the spa where we had some delicious freshly made smoothies
We tried the massage (heavenly) in one of the treatment rooms that had been painted white, and had all the old features left from when the house was originally built: a beautiful open fireplace and tall ceilings with old wooden beams. You can buy spa products that are made at the Irene Farm, just a hop and a skip away from the Lodge and their Milk products are just divine.
A view of the outside area
So I hope that you decide to pop by the Camdeboo Spa if you live around Pretoria, then you can admire all these beautiful old buildings in real life – a do remember to tell us all about your stay in the comment box below!
Decades of Elegance 