3 day Hoerikwaggo Table Mountain Trail

Description:

Walk the mountain in style with only your thoughts and the scenery to concern you. This guided and portered "white table cloth", three-day trail offers luxurious accommodation and mouth-watering catered meals. The Table Mountain Trail will delight both culture vultures and nature lovers and includes many of Cape Town's major tourist attractions: a cultural trail through the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and the City of Cape Town, a cable car ride to the top of Table Mountain (weather permitting), the world famous Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens and two nights accommodation in the Table Mountain National Park. The maximum size of a hiking party is 16 people with a minimum of 8 people. There will be one Hoerikwaggoâ„¢ Trail Guide per 8 hikers plus a lead guide.

Highlights:

A luxury three-day, guided, portered, catered, hiking experience that links the cultural history of the city with the natural heritage of Table Mountain.

Rates on request

Includes:

accommodation
food
portaged, serviced and guided.
take only your clothes and a day pack

Excludes:

items of a personal nature
gratuities

Itineraries:

Limitations:
the hike is booked per room and not by individual. There are two four-sleepers and four two-sleepers in each overnight facility. This means that you need to book for two or four people.
group size: minimum 6 maximum 16
bookings of 2 permitted for trails starting on Mondays.

Days

Tour outline:

Meet at the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront at 08h30. From here you will be lead by boat and on foot, through the multifaceted tapestry of Cape Town's eclectic architecture, weaving the story of the City's cosmopolitan, often tragic, past. The day ends at the beautifully restored Platteklip Wash Houses on the banks of the Camissa (sweet water) River on the lower slopes of Table Mountain. Here you will meet the Hoerikwaggo Trail Guides - your hosts on days 2 and 3. After dinner - a mouth-watering Cape Malay meal - you can relax around the fire, or send an e-mail or simply chat to your fellow hikers. Walking distance: 7 km, approximately 6,5 hours

After an early rise and a sumptuous continental breakfast you will hike to the lower cable way station. From there, weather permitting, you will catch the Cable Car to the top of Table Mountain. From the upper cable station the trail winds through pristine fynbos to Maclear's Beacon for a picnic lunch. The Beacon is the highest point on the Cape Peninsula and was constructed in 1884 by the astronomer Thomas Maclear who initiated the first geodetic survey of the Cape. After lunch continue via the historic Smuts Track to the overnight accommodation at the restored Overseers Cottage which offers awesome night time views of the City and the mountain chain. Tonight is the night for a traditional South African braai (barbeque) where the chef will spoil you with steaks, turned to perfection, and an assortment of salads and vegetables. The outdoor braai will only be lit on a low fire-risk day. Should the wind be too strong or the vegetation too dry the meal will be prepared in the kitchen. Walking distance: 9,5 km, approximately 6 hours

Today a morning hike will take you to the north western edges of the mountain. The route offers plenty of interesting and historic features and scenic trails. After lunch the guides will lead you down the magnificent, forested Nursery Ravine to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens where the trail ends. Meals included today are breakfast & lunch. Walking distance: 9 km, approximately 6 hours

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