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The karoo is not as much a place as a feeling, it enters through your bloodstream – taking its time to unfold until its time to leave, then you realise its taken a hold of your soul…
Welcome to GaMamadi Guest Farm
Stay over at the GAMAMADI GUEST FARM near Three Sisters and experience a fully operational Merino’s sheep and Mohair goats farm. Here you can relax, go hiking and mountain climbing or simply observe a variety of wildlife and birds. A cool and refreshing swimming pool is also available after a long and hot summer drive.
Enjoy your stay in one of the six units that was once a farmhouse built in 1943. Each unit has a main bedroom with open-plan living room and kitchen for self-catering if requested. Two of the units can sleep a family of six. Three of the units sleep four people and the last unit sleeps two people. A cool, refreshing swimming pool is also available after a long and hot summer’s drive.
Meals are available on request and a light Continental breakfast can be served in the units. Dinner and a farm breakfast is served at the main homestead. Your hosts, Danie and Annalise Marais, are always ready to welcome you with their warm and friendly Karoo hospitality.
About Victoria West
In the late 1800s, the little Northern Cape town of Victoria West experienced a major disaster, followed by a prolonged period of very good fortune.
In 1871, the settlement was hit by a cloudburst that resulted in a 4m-high wall of water that killed more than 60 people. People at the local museum will point out the little church where there is still a stained glass panel commemorating the floods of Victoria West.
Less than 20 years later, when the great South African diamond rush was on in Kimberley to the north, Victoria West benefited greatly from prospectors, miners and travellers stopping over for rest and supplies.
The local farmers also used the town as their central place of worship, called Nagmaal (evening service) in Afrikaans. Nagmaal was more than a time to pray. It was also a great social celebration, held every few months, and many a romance was born during Nagmaal time.
The town’s main event happens in late September each year, when spring has covered the region with daisy blooms.
Die-hard rugby union fans will remember the legendary Springbok, Mannetjies Roux. He is a Victoria Wester, and owns the Victoria Trading Post and Mannetjies Roux Museum, which is full of interesting memorabilia and well worth half an hour of your time.
At the Victoria West Regional Museum, you will discover all manner of lifestyle artefacts going back to the Victorian era. There is also an archaeological display and a very interesting piece of pigskin. This 3m-long stretch of skin bears the signatures of the first stockholders of the 2nd Standard Bank to be established in South Africa.
Victoria West remains a welcoming, gracious stopover to this day!
About Three Sisters
The Three Sisters are a land formation near Victoria West, Northern Cape, South Africa, comprising three distinctively shaped hills. The farm on which they are situated and the nearby railway siding are also named Three Sisters.
The hills (or “koppies” as they are known locally) are topped with dolorite, and are nearly identical in appearance. They can be seen just to the east of the N1 highway, roughly 75 km outside Beaufort West, north of the junction of the N1 and the N12 highways. Due to the open and mountainous Karoo scenery, the area has become a relatively well-known landmark.
There is a large “Shell Ultra City” branded full service petrol station nearby.
The early expansion of the Cape Colony‘s railway system, planned by the government of Prime Minister John Molteno and driven by Cape Government Railways, saw the Main Western Line to Kimberley pass this formation. A small station was built here in 1881 and it serviced the enormous tracts of farmland in the surrounding districts.
Rooms & Rates
Enjoy your stay in one of the six units that was once a farmhouse built in 1943 and is now converted with style and comfort. Each unit has a main bedroom with en-suite bathroom and an open-plan living room and kitchen for self catering or meals on request. Two of the units can sleep a family of six. Three of the units sleep four people and the last unit sleeps two people. All the units have only one bedroom and are equipped with fans and heaters.
Meals available on request. Homemade Karoo dinners and a full farm breakfast served in the homestead’s dining room.
Room #1 and Room #5
 | Sleeps 6 guests |
 | Double Bed |
 | 2 Apartment |
No #1 has an extra double/single bunker bed plus a single bed, and No #5 has 2 extra bunker beds.
Meals available on request. Homemade Karoo dinners and a full farm breakfast served in the homestead’s dining room.
Price Includes
All prices includes coffee & tea facilities with homemade rusks and a variety of dry breakfast cereals with milk in the units.
About This Room
Room #2, Room #3 and Room #6
| Sleeps 4 guests |
| Double Bed |
| 3 Apartment |
No #2, No #3 and No #6 have an extra bunker bed.
Meals available on request. Homemade Karoo dinners and a full farm breakfast served in the homestead’s dining room.
Price Includes
All prices includes coffee&tea facilities with homemade rusks and a variety of dry breakfast cereals with milk in the units.
About This Room
Room #4 and Room #7
| Sleeps 2 guests |
| Double Bed |
| 2 Apartment |
No #7 has a Queen size bed and a bath and shower. No #4 has a Double bed and just a shower.
Meals available on request. Homemade Karoo dinners and a full farm breakfast served in the homestead’s dining room.
Price Includes
All prices includes coffee & tea facilities with homemade rusks and a variety of dry breakfast cereals with milk in the units.
