Leopards Kloof Trail

Leopards Kloof is the demanding walk at Harold Porter, and the one you cannot simply wander onto. A permit and a gate key are issued at the garden entrance, and the gate stays locked behind you both going in and coming out. Keys are not handed out after one in the afternoon and must be […]

Three Sisters Trail

Three Sisters is the easy one to arrange, which is not the same as the easy one to walk. It is 8 km over about four hours, graded moderate, and it climbs into the mountains behind Kleinmond with the coast laid out below you. What makes it unusual is the paperwork, or the absence of […]

Disa Kloof Trail

Disa Kloof is the short one, and it is here because of what it does rather than how far it goes. It is a very easy short trail, 950 m from the garden entrance up the kloof to the waterfall, about thirty minutes each way. What matters is the surface: the whole route is accessible […]

De Hoop Klipspringer Trail

Klipspringer is the short walk at Potberg, and it is the one to do if you want the northern end of De Hoop without committing five days to the Whale Trail. It is 6 km, about two hours, circular, starting and finishing at the Potberg Eco Venue. What it offers is height and birds. The […]

Boesmanskloof Day Trail

The Boesmanskloof Trail is the old footpath over the Riviersonderend mountains between Greyton and McGregor, and it remains one of the best day crossings in the Western Cape. CapeNature manages it from Vrolijkheid Nature Reserve and gives the distance as 14 km one way, at six to seven hours. It can be walked from either […]

Palmiet River Trail

Kogelberg is the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom and most of its trails are long: 22 km to Perdeberg, 24 km on the Kogelberg Trail, a two-day crossing on the Highlands. The Palmiet River Walk is the exception. It is 10 km over about three hours, an easy walk along the Palmiet River, which […]

Kleinmond Golf Club

Nine greens, eighteen tees. The second nine is played off different tee boxes, so a full round of par 72 over 5,761 metres gives you two genuinely different nines on the same ground. The club’s variety comes from the tees rather than from length. Two practical things before you book. A separate water levy is […]

Arabella Golf Course

This is a resort course rather than a members’ club, and booking is straightforward: tee times go online up to a year ahead. The one thing to know before you click is that full pre-payment is required to secure a booking, and cancelling inside forty eight hours forfeits the whole fee. The club also publishes […]

Hermanus Golf Club

Hermanus has twenty-seven holes rather than eighteen, arranged as three separate eighteen-hole courses. The club names the combinations by hole number: East is holes 1 to 18, North is 19 to 27 followed by 1 to 9, and South is 10 to 18 followed by 19 to 27. Each plays to a par of 72 […]