Eastern Cape Hikes

The Shipwreck & Canoe Hiking Trail: A Coastal Reckoning from Port Alfred to the Fish River Mouth

There are hikes that test your lungs, hikes that test your legs, and then there are hikes that quietly rearrange your sense of time. The Shipwreck & Canoe Trail along the Eastern Cape coast belongs firmly in the last category. It unfolds at the pace of tides and rivers, of donkey boilers warming and kettles […]

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The Strandloper Trail – A Throwback

A Christmas Journey Along South Africa’s Wild Coast On Christmas morning 2016, nine of us left Cape Town in a heavily loaded van, buzzing with excitement, oblivious to the distance ahead of us.   We had signed up for four days on the Strandloper Hiking Trail, a 57-kilometre coastal hike between Kei Mouth and Gonubie

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Antjie Se Pad (Antjie’s Path)

Kareedouw – Eastern Baviaans, Eastern Cape (15-19 December 2024)   Antjie Se Pad Hike: A 5-Day Adventure in the Kouga Mountains Antjie se Pad is a remarkable hiking trail located in the Kouga Mountains in the Suurveld (‘sour field’ because the land is not ideal for agriculture, so most farmers rear sheep) area of the

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