Enjoy three days of slackpacking along the Fynbos Trail with our knowledgeable guide who will show you all nature’s hidden mysteries. We’ll spoil you with tasty home-cooked meals at the accommodation. And there are loads of surprises along the way.

Note:

• Minimum group size of 4 required for this option and 6 over weekends. (If you book for 8 you will have the trail exclusively for your group, any group smaller may have others joined to it.)
• Unguided, catered slackpacking

Why the Premium Option

Access – exclusive access to the fynbos trail through the walker bay fynbos conservancy’s fynbos and forests

Sleep well – one night’s accommodation at fountain bush cottage on Witvoetskloof and the second night’s accommodation at cone bush cottage on Witkrans nature reserve

Slackpack – all luggage transfers

Eat well – two breakfasts, two dinners and one lunch – all delicious home-cooked meals

Itinerary

Day 1

Start your hike at Growing the Futures Farm, Steynsbos. From here you enjoy a 6.6 km walk to Fountain Bush Cottage – which should take you approximately three hours. The trail meanders through an amazing diversity of habitats including coastal strandveld, enchanting milkwood forests, limestone and mountain fynbos. On arrival at Witvoetskloof, you can put your feet up and relax, or take a swim in the beautiful dam and watch the sun set over the water. We then serve you a delicious home-cooked meal.

Day 2

Start day 2 with a walk down the Witvoetskloof Valley to a beautiful indigenous forest and enjoy a coffee or tea stop at the waterfall. The trail then climbs up through the limestone fynbos-clad hills to the summit of Grootberg with 360-degree panoramic views of the Overberg and oceans. From the summit the trail winds down to Stinkhoutsbos Forest on Flower Valley Farm. Here hikers are treated to a scrumptious picnic lunch under the shade of the forest trees. After lunch you can plant an indigenous tree at Stinkhoutsbos Forest as part of the forest rehabilitation project and on a toasty day, take a dip in the Flower Valley dam. Day 2 is an 11 km walk. It will take most of the day as it leads you to the second overnight rest at Witkrans Nature Reserve. We then host a wine tasting of the local award-winning Lomond Wines, and treat you to a delicious home-cooked meal. Don’t miss the opportunity to soak in the wood-fired hot tub afterwards.

Day 3

Day 3 starts with a scrumptious breakfast at the Witkrans boma and then takes you around Witkransberg and up the Baviaansfontein valley, through patches of indigenous forest and rare limestone fynbos. On exiting the valley, the views of Walker Bay open up and hikers head down to the Grootbos Milkwood forest. From here the trail winds through the forest to the Grootbos Foundation, where we’ll serve you a picnic lunch. After lunch, hikers head to the Grootbos Florilegium to enjoy the magnificent artworks depicting the many plant species and their pollinators that you would have seen along the trail. You are then transferred back to your vehicles at Steynsbos, as your Fynbos Trail experience comes to an end. This is a 9 km walk that takes about four hours from Witkrans to the finish at the Grootbos Florilegium.

Includes

• Overnight accommodation at fully equipped Fynbos Retreat and Witkrans
• Two dinners, two lunches and two breakfasts
• Lomond wine tasting at Witkrans
• Eexpert FGASA accredited guide for three days
• Planting of indigenous tree at Stinkhoutsbos Forest on day two lunch stop
• Fynbos gift on completion of trail
• All luggage transfers.
• Exclusive tour to the Grootbos Florilegium and Wenhold Botanical art gallery at the end of Day 3 (the only botanical art gallery in the Southern hemisphere).

Rates:

Guided, catered slackpacking option

• R69500.00 per person over weekend (or including Friday and Saturday nights)
• R6650.00 per person during the week (Sunday to Thursday night)

Note: Minimum group size of 4 required for this option and 6 over weekends.

Admin Fee:

• R55.00 once off per reservation