Kiplings Cottage at Three Tree Hill

The second in our series about the luxury family cottages at Three Tree Hill and the characters they have been named after. Kiplings cottage is really well suited to families travelling with young children, and so thus themed after the legendary author of the Jungle Book & Just So stories, Rudyard Kipling. The cottage comes filled with books, puzzles, toys & a shady sandpit to keep little ones occupied.
Kipling was a poet, novelist and writer of children's short stories, and is primarily associated with India, but also spent time in South Africa. On the advice of his doctor, Kipling began travelling to southern Africa for winter vacations almost every year from 1898. In South Africa Kipling met and befriended Cecil John Rhodes, who gave him a house in Cape Town.
During his early visits he began collecting material for his children's classics, the Just So Stories for Little Children, published in 1902. Two of the typically South African short stories include "The Elephant's Child" (which name-checks Kimberley, Grahamstown and the Limpopo River) and "How the Leopard Got His Spots."
Kipling became intensely involved in the war between Britain and the Boer republics, which took place between 1899 and 1902, years during which a number of the poems in this collection were composed.
Ron Gold narrates this story from Kiplings Cottage at Three Tree Hill.