This B&B and self catering house is located in Mossel Bay, 100 meters from the well known, sandy Diaz Beach. The distance to Cape Town is 390 km and to George Airport is 25 km
Make Diaz Beach Haven, Mossel Bay your no1 destination in South Africa and explore the Garden Route and Klein Karoo region - a world renowned scenic and adventure route, catering from the very energetic visitor to the more reserved tourist and definitely has something to offer for every budget. The Garden Route, in particular, is one of the most scenic stretches of land in South Africa if not in the world.
Mossel Bay is rich with history, as the explorer, Bartholomew Diaz landed on Munro beach (next to our harbour) in February 1488, on arrival, they with the KHOI-SAN indigenous people and immediately had a heated debate about water. Van Caerden a Dutch navigator, gave Mossel Bay its name.
Your host is Ilze Roos and she is married to Attie. Ilze is managing the B&B and Self-catering business and related services, while Attie is employed full-time, elsewhere. The relevant services will be managed on an outsourced basis. In the 80's, Ilze lived and worked in England for a period of 1 yr, during which time she virtually touched all corners of Europe. At about the same time Attie, on the other hand, worked and played rugby in France for over 2 years, and got to know Western Europe and Scandinavia pretty well.
More recently, Attie, Ilze and 2 of their 4 children lived in Germany, where Attie worked on an IT contract. The children attended international schools near Frankfurt.
During their stay in Germany the Roos family explored Eastern Europe in their spare time up to the Kremlin in Moscow. In addition, they extended their Western Europe travelling from previous years, saw much of the United States of America and visited countries in the Pacific region such as China Nanjing and Shanghai plus Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai
We have a wide ange of activities such as wildlife visits, game drives, wine tasting, boat trips, scuba diving, shark cage diving, hiking, golfing,casino - in and around Mossel Bay.
The Klein Karoo region is located just North of the Garden Route and together offer you South Africa in a nutshell culture, scenic beauty, wildlife, spectacular beaches, multi-ethnic food and wine, sport, exotic eco systems, extravagant mountain ranges, and much, much more. In sharp contrast to the Garden Route, the Klein Karoo region consists of dry semi-arid scrub land. The Hottentots and Bushmen, last of the South African indigenous peoples, called this region + Place of the Great Dryness+- from which the name *Karoo+ is derived. Well known towns in the Klein Karoo region include Outshoorn and Calitzdorp
