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HOTEL BABYLON

There are hotels we like and then there are hotels we love – and South Africa’s Babylonstoren is most definitely in the latter category. Set within the Cape Winelands and only 50 kilometres from Cape Town, Babylonstoren is a working farm with a historic Cape Dutch homestead at its heart.

Karen Roos, the former editor of , and her husband, Koos Bekker,

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