Get Inspired

Yebo Boutique Guesthouse! A space is not just a space. It is about positive energy and happiness which you experience when you live in it. Our aim is to offer that FEEL GOOD experience arising from an inspiring balance between interior, nature and the people around you.

Outdoor Lifestyle

Intimate places to sit, relax and socialize. Surrounded by trees, grasses and flowers you feel the tranquillity of nature. The spacious outdoor patio is equipped with a braai, pizza oven, stylish bar and kitchen. For your ultimate outdoor lifestyle experience.

Nature & Wildlife

The amount of activities in the surrounding area is amazing. Easy to setup a nice itinerary for a week or long stay. Hiking, golf, mtb, whale and shark watching and moreKruger National park is only a 2 hours flight and yes we can arrange it for you!

Wine & Dining

Experience true South African Hospitality with the finest (high quality) restaurants and wineries. The area is a unique food and wine paradise. With our local knowledge we can help you with recommendations and bookings.

The perfect place to discover the Western Cape

Somerset West is central situated to Explore the Western Cape. It’s located between Cape Town, Franschhoek and Hermanus. This makes Yebo Boutique Guesthouse the ideal Base to Discover the Western Cape.

The Rooms

We like to pamper our guests to feel @ home. While you wake up after a good night sleep in one of our spacious and stylish rooms we prepare a delicious breakfast with fresh eggs and fruits which can be served on your own terrace. Have a tea, coffee or drink on our beautiful main terrace while you enjoy our lovely garden and views with a taste of the ocean on the horizon and surrounded by mountains.

Enjoy the Pool with a nice Cool Drink after an activity, order a snack platter and a wine for sunset and sit around the Campfire in the evening.

Outdoor lifestyle

Many of our Guests return year after year to enjoy their most favourite activity in a perfect climate. From September to November we enter spring with nature coming alive and  showing its beautiful colours. This weather extends into February which is our summer period. During this period we can enjoy wind that blows moderately on most days, this gives the land a pleasant cooling. And then we have March to May, which is also considered as a perfect time. Cooler mornings and nights and often 20+ degrees during the day.

Nature and Wildlife

Enjoy the beauty of Nature and Wildlife that the Western Cape has to offer. There is so much to do that you can easily stay for one or two weeks at our Guesthouse to explore all nature and wildlife highlights in our area. As soon as you book with us we can assist you in setting up a timeline for activities. Share with us your interest and budget, we will come up with a proposal. To inspire you we made a shortlist on this page to give you an idea where you can choose from. You can contact us direct through WhatsApp or E-mail to ask questions and we start organizing your trip while you book your flight tickets.

Wine & Dining

The variety of restaurants, wine tours and wine tasting venues are superb. Many of them just around the corner. As our Guest we will share our Personal recommendations. We are more than Happy to organize reservations for you.

Welvanpas Bains MTB Trails

CLOSEST TOWN > Wellington

TRAIL DESTINATION > Welvanpas Farm

DISTANCE > 15-30km

GRADING > Intermediate to difficult

VIDEOS > Check out some GoPro shots of the trail…..

OVERVIEW

Many mountain bike routes in the Cape claim to have the most amazing variety of routes, sublime single-track and a rich historic heritage. Welvanpas is no different, except that in this case you get exactly what is advertised on the can.

On your bike

The routes all start and end at Welvanpas farm which is nestled between the beautiful Hawekwa and Groenberg mountain ranges near Wellington. The trails are mainly on single-track, winding through orchards, vineyards, pristine fynbos and past stunning waterfalls. The trails will take you up high onto Groenberg, before descending back down to the Kromme River. You’ll have options between challenging and very steep sections or their (equally) challenging chicken runs.

The Yellow Route (17km) leaves the start area, turning left along a well marked trail before hitting the first climb of the day; 8km long and a mere 400m ascent. At 1.7km you will cross the tar road of the Bainskloof pass to crank up the slopes of the Hawekwa Mountains.

Many small mountain streams crossings and a section through a pine plantation lead you slowly towards 8.3kms and a single-track party all over the side of the mountain. Every ounce of sweat and discomfort that you experienced on the way up will be forgotten as you crest the hill and charge over the top. No matter, if you ride it slowly or like a war hero, the trail will reward you with a ride to live in your memory for years to come.

On the way down the trail there are a couple of steep sections and a rocky drop off, but nothing too scary. You do need to be aware that the surface has lots of tiny stones over a hard base, so it can be quite slippery at times.

8km of almost nonstop single-track takes you, via some flat farmlands, back to the finish or, you can lookout for the world-famous Black Route extension to the Yellow Route and make it last longer! This 27km route has exhilarating single-track sections in the pine forest above Bainskloof and their names, Point Break, Route 66, Angel’s Tears, Heaven’s Gate, Super G and The Full Monty, will give you an idea of what to expect!! With a similar finish to the Yellow (17km), it ensures you’ll still enjoy the thrill of Cool Runnings and Cool Runnings Too, coming down the Bainskloof Road.

For a less strenuous ride there is a 29km White Route that has amazing single-track, but with less climbing, while family groups with children may like to ride the more sedate 15km Blue Route.

The Bains Trail takes you up high into the Groenberg before a descending a steep, technical sectiofon down to the Kromme River. Here you can choose the challenging, very steep finish towards the river or an (equally) challeging chicken run. Hereafter it runs on the banks of the tranquil stream through a natural forest. The second route takes you towards Bainskloof Pass, up a thigh-testing single track climb and finally back towards Welvanpas Farm, on single track through the slopes of the Bainskloof foothills.

Off the bike

If you like to mix exploring the history of the area you are riding in, with bombing down bike trails, how about the fact that the historic farm of Welvanpas is the birthplace of former Voortrekker leader Piet Retief who stayed on the farm until the age of 26. The farm has been in the family for 305 years and is currently managed by Dan and Retha Retief. To top it off, Die Ou Meul Coffee shop is said to serve the best carrot cake in town, but also sells a variety of farm produce and wines.

 

Contact

Phone : +2721 865 1239 / +27 82 393 6268,

Website : www.welvanpas.co.za

GPS: 33°37’59.4” South / 19°04’9.0” East

 

Living room

Breakfast room

Garden

Swimmingpool

Outdoor cooking

Stylisch bar

Our lights stay always ON

At YEBO Boutique Guesthouse we offer our guests an outstanding level of comfort, also during power cuts, better known as loadshedding. We invested in a proper loadshedding backup system. The ceiling lights and Wi-Fi at YEBO Guesthouse always work in the evening. Our beautiful garden will be illuminated with spotlights. Take a wine from the wine cooler, sit back, relax and enjoy the silence from the night.