Take a break from cooking for the family – and let us treat you with our delicious home-cooked meals. While you hike through the fynbos and forests, we transfer your luggage and prepare your meals. You simply arrive and relax after a fulfilling and fun day’s hike.

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.)

Why the Standard 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.

Trail includes:

• Three-day hike with exclusive access to the Fynbos Trail through Walker Bay Fynbos Conservancy fynbos and forests
• One night’s accommodation at Fountain Bush cottage on Witvoetskloof and the second nights’ accommodation at Cone bush cottage on Witkrans Nature reserve
• All luggage transfers
• Two breakfasts, two dinners and one lunch – all delicious home cooked meals
• Total hiking distance for standard trail is approximately 29 km

Itinerary

Day 1

Start your hike at the Growing the Future project at 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 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 hikers head through the magnificent Flower Valley. 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. You’re then treated 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 Wtkransberg and up the Baviaansfontein valley through patches of indigenous forest and rare limestone fynbos. On exiting the valley, hikers have the option of either summiting Swartkransberg or traversing around the peak on a contour path. The trail then heads down back to the cars at Steynsbos. You normally finish around lunchtime on the final day.

This is a 9 km walk that takes about four hours from Witkrans to Steynsbos.

Includes

• Overnight accommodation at fully equipped Fynbos Retreat and Witkrans
• Two dinners, one lunch and two breakfasts, (drinks excluded but you are welcome to bring along drinks and they will be transported to overnight stops and chilled for your arrival)
• All luggage transfers.
• This is a circular route that takes hikers all the way back to the start at Steynsbos.

Rates:

Self-guided, catered slackpacking option

• R5400.00 per person over weekend (or including Friday and Saturday nights)
• R5200.00 per person during the week (Sunday to Thursday night)

 Admin Fee:

• R55.00 once off per reservation