In 1776, the Dutch East India Company employed the first Knysna forest woodcutters. Unschooled and isolated from society the Knysna forest woodcutters lived miserable lives dominated by poverty. They lived in crude huts made of reeds & clay.
Once they had cut the trees to manageable lengths they used oxen to drag the timber along slip paths, made by generations of elephants, to where the merchants could load it on wagons and transport it to town.
Today you do not have to stay in a reed hut to enjoy what Knysna is all about. Knysna Log-Inn Hotel offers 57 Luxurious en-suite rooms. Just 5 minutes’ walk from the Knysna Waterfront and from the centre of town. Come and enjoy our stained glass windows and find all the hidden carvings in the wonderful yellow wood of the largest wooden structure in the Southern Hemisphere.