Four Trail Hiking Series

Four Trail hiking series. Epic!! 

Tsitsikamma

Alexandria

Strandloper 

Shipwreck

Trail 1: Tsitsikamma

The Tsitsikamma Trail is a hiking paradise, journeying through extensive indigenous afromontane forest and mountain fynbos. Ancient river gorges and abundant rivers and streams remind us of the creative power of water and the origins of the word Tsitsikamma. This is an enchanted world where echoes of past giants such as elephant and buffalo can still be felt. Some of the finest specimens of South Africa’s national tree, the Outeniqua yellowwood, keep sentinel over the forest canopy while hikers clamber over their enormous roots beneath.

Beginning in Nature’s Valley and ending 62.3km further at either the Storms River Bridge or Village, this six day, unidirectional trail takes hikers through the heart of the Tsitsikamma Mountains.

Trail 2: Addo's Alexandria Hiking Trail

Hiking the two-day Alexandria Hiking Trail in Addo Elephant National Park is an unforgettable experience that leads the hiker through three distinctly different environments ranging from forest to coastal dunes, to seashore. No other trail in the country can boast this diversity, as you clamber up the desert-like dunes and stand aloft cliffs crumbling into the sea, trek through high forest, and along spectacular beaches. The trail traverses sand dunes of the largest coastal dune field in the Southern Hemisphere. Fantastic! 

Trail 3. Strandloper. 

The Strandloper Trail runs from the Kei River Mouth to Gonubie - almot 60 kms of gorgeous beaches, rivers, cliff tops and coastal forests. It’s not called Strandloper (beach walker) for nothing

Trail 4: Shipwreck

This six day, five night hike takes you along the Shipwreck Coast. The hike includes the sheer beauty of this wild, unspoilt strip of coast, beautiful estuaries, showering in the rough, cooking your food over a bush fire and a complete escape from civilisation.

The scenery is exquisite and the trail takes advantage of the unspoiled natural beauty of the environment to deliver an experience that is diverse and interesting. From the beach to the mountain, dune to the forest, and a canoe trip up the Klenemond River. Each hut is completely different, adding to the magic of the hike.