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Hikes outside a reserve: Western Cape

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Kogelberg Camino

Kogelberg Camino

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Kogelberg Camino is a guided multi-day hike through the Kogelberg Biosphere. It threads together beaches, estuaries, fynbos, indigenous forest, waterfalls, mountain summits and coastal reserves…

Alikreukel Trail

Alikreukel Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Alikreukel Trail explores the Southern Cape coast between Blombos, Jongensfontein and Stilbaai. It is a guided slackpacking experience rather than a self-guided backpacking route: walkers carry o…

Oystercatcher Trail

Oystercatcher Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Oystercatcher Trail is a guided coastal slackpacking hike linking the Gouritz River Mouth with Mossel Bay. Its three walking days travel through the southern Cape's changing shore landscape: an e…

Wupperthal Cedar Trail

Wupperthal Cedar Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Wupperthal Cedar Trail is the shorter companion route to Wupperthal66, but it is not simply a shortened duplicate. Its focus is the rock-country around Heuningvlei, Cederberg cedar restoration, m…

Kammanassie Camino

Kammanassie Camino

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Kammanassie Camino is a guided Little Karoo slackpacking experience based near De Rust, between the Swartberg and Outeniqua ranges. It uses a private game reserve, private farmland and the Kamman…

Wupperthal100 Hike

Wupperthal100 Hike

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

Wupperthal100 is the longer Cederberg expedition that joins selected elements of the Wupperthal Cedar Trail and Wupperthal66 into one continuous 100 km route. It is a separate challenge: six consecut…

Karoo Erdvark Hiking Trail

Karoo Erdvark Hiking Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

Karoo Erdvark is a genuine hiking destination rather than a farm-stay listing. The Rooiheuwel network offers short marked day routes, a four-day daisy-chain option from Boplaas, and defined five- and…

Penguin Trail

Penguin Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Penguin Trail is a guided, three-day slackpacking hike based in Betty's Bay. It combines the Hangklip coast, Kogelberg mountain country and the shoreline to Stony Point Penguin Colony, creating a…

Swart Tobie Hiking Trail

Swart Tobie Hiking Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Swart Tobie Hiking Trail follows a largely undeveloped stretch of the West Coast near Koekenaap. It combines beaches, cliff sections, tidal pools, coastal rock formations and the Olifants River e…

Tulbagh Wine Walk

Tulbagh Wine Walk

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Tulbagh Wine Walk is a guided base-camp walking experience through the Tulbagh Valley. It uses Oudekloof Wine Estate as the daily start and finish, then explores gravel paths, vineyard country, h…

The Quiet 2 day hike | Bloukrans, Moordenaarskaroo

The Quiet 2 day hike | Bloukrans

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

Embark on a two-day hiking adventure on Bloukrans farm, situated in the lesser-known region of the Moordenaarskaroo, south of Sutherland. This unique area is nestled between Laingsburg, Merweville, a…

Boesmanskloof Hiking Trail

Boesmanskloof Hiking Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Boesmanskloof Hiking Trail crosses the Riviersonderend Mountains between McGregor and Greyton. It passes through mountain fynbos and riverine vegetation in a protected mountain-catchment landscap…

Damara Trail

Damara Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Damara Trail is a two-day coastal hike through De Mond Nature Reserve, following the shoreline from the reserve's Welcome Centre to Waenhuiskrans, also known as Arniston. It is a short overnight…

The Fynbos Trail

The Fynbos Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Fynbos Trail is a three-day circular walk through the Walker Bay Fynbos Conservancy near Stanford and Gansbaai. It combines coastal strandveld, milkwood forest, limestone fynbos, mountain slopes…

Sandveld 3-Day Hike

Sandveld 3-Day Hike

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Sandveld 3-Day Hike is a short Camino-style journey through the north-western Western Cape. It links Kapteinskloof, Aurora, farm-country around RoesRus Williekamp and Redelinghuys over three days…

Montagu Camino

Montagu Camino

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Montagu Camino is a six-day, point-to-point walk through the Klein Karoo's open game-belt landscape. Starting near the R318 and finishing in Montagu, it crosses gravel roads, guest farms and priv…

Karoo Hiking Tour

Karoo Hiking Tour

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Karoo Hiking Tour is a 103 km circular walk through a section of the Great Karoo that lies beyond the main highway corridors. It uses marked two-track roads, farm routes, passes and river country…

Wupperthal66 Hike

Wupperthal66 Hike

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

Wupperthal66 is a guided, supported walk through exceptionally remote Cederberg mountain country to the village of Wupperthal. The route combines old community footpaths, two-track roads, rock format…

Fossil Hills Wine Walk

Fossil Hills Wine Walk

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Fossil Hills Wine Walk is a guided hiking experience in the McGregor Valley. It uses single-track routes through fynbos, renosterveld and farm landscapes, with wine estates and local producers as…

Windpomp to Windpomp Hike

Windpomp to Windpomp Hike

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

A four day hike starting form Kalkfontein Guest House. We'll all meet at Leeu Gamka petrol station early morning for a group drive to Kalkfontein Guest House. Once there, we'll have time to…

Walk with Whales

Walk with Whales

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

Walk with Whales is a five-day guided coastal hike along the Whale Coast, moving from Arniston through beaches, fynbos, coastal paths, fishing-village landscapes and the southern Cape shoreline. It i…

Portland Camino

Portland Camino

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Portland Camino is a five-day guided walking journey through the forests, mining history, valleys and coastline around Knysna. Based in Rheenendal, it uses a series of daily excursions rather tha…

Tulbagh Disa Trail

Tulbagh Disa Trail

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

The Tulbagh Disa Trail is an annual four-day charity hike through the Witzenberg Valley. It uses a changing selection of farm, mountain, fynbos and historical routes around Tulbagh, with the event ra…

Fountain Shack Overnight Hike

Fountain Shack Overnight Hike

Hikes outside a reserve (Western Cape)

Fountain Shack is an overnight hiking destination on Robberg Peninsula, reached only on foot from the reserve parking area. The wooden hikers' shack is a practical base for experiencing Robberg after…