Uniqueness

The Biomimicry Bushcamp is available for Masiyembo training courses, workshops and customised groups on request. This is due to the sensitivity of the surrounding environment and the necessity for those visiting the space to learn how to become a positive part of the continued healthy functioning of this ecosystem.  With this appreciation and understanding, visitors have a much richer experience as a 'migratory species', passing through for a period of time, treading lightly, and dropping into the flow and harmony of the web of life.

Food for your meals is prepared by our Bush Chef using locally grown vegetables and meals will be enjoyed around a campfire with lighting from solar lamps.

Our luxury safari-style tents have been specially designed to suit the local environment and weave into the fabric of nature.  Their organic shape blends into and reflects the forest canopy while perching on mobile decks, thus preventing damage to the vegetation on the forest floor. 

Each tent site (maximum of two tents per site) has its own ablutions. We incorporate bush bucket showers with water heated on the fire. Used water is then harvested and filtered through charcoal filters which, as it evaporates, provides the cooling system that sustains the camp. 

The toilets have been developed using biomimicry principles that ensure that there is no water wastage; that all waste produced is turned into a resource, and that mainly locally available and abundant resources are utilized.   The organic matter is broken down into compost using sawdust as the base component in a dry flushing and odourless toilet.  The waste is later removed and used in a local nursery site as compost for saplings that will later become part of a Greater Knysna Forest regeneration project.