The Garden Route is often perceived as being synonymous with forest and coastal thicket, but once you move up the slopes of the Outeniqua Mountains you emerge into the vivid landscape of the Fynbos with it’s diversity of floral display. From the coastal towns of Wilderness and Sedgefield the northern skyline is broken by the…
Hiking through the Garden Route offers a diversity of unconventional wildlife encounters in the forest, dunes and on the beach.
Each time we hike the Garden Route Trail, a five day coastal hike between Wilderness and Brenton on Sea, we discover a host of natural wonders.
The rugged coastline of the Titsikamma can be hiked from Storms River. For those not inclined to do the renowned Otter Trail, there are two easier half day walks, one to the suspension bridge and the Waterfall Walk.
Receding into the distance to the North West was the vista of the Mustang Plateau. We were sitting at the top of the Thurang La pass, at an altitude a few meters over 5400. It had been a long, slow morning, starting predawn to ascend the 490m from Thurang Upper base to a pass. Progress…
