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TRAVEL<br />
YOUR FEET WERE<br />
MADE FOR WALKING...<br />
Two Cape walking holidays well worth<br />
setting foot on one of these days.<br />
By Laurel Pretorius<br />
Heritage Hike<br />
Cederberg, Western Cape<br />
Distance from Cape Town: 2.5-hour drive<br />
Reccommended Time: Various<br />
Difficulty level: Various<br />
What you’ll see: A large portion of it is a proclaimed<br />
Wilderness Area with World Heritage status.<br />
What makes the Cederberg Heritage Route so different<br />
is its series of six community-based hiking trails. Five<br />
of them are relatively short (anything between two and<br />
five days) and one – The Cederberg 100 Trail – is a<br />
long eight-night and seven-day trail.<br />
The various hiking routes wend their way through a<br />
dramatic mountainous landscape and some of the<br />
most stunning rock formations sculptured by nature<br />
itself. Look carefully and you’ll discover a history-load<br />
of pre-colonial rock art. There is also a remarkable<br />
botanical diversity in the region which explains why it’s<br />
part of the Cape Floral Kingdom of South Africa.<br />
While hiking the Cederberg trails you get to stay<br />
in a choice of comfy guesthouses, cottages and<br />
community-run homestays situated in the scenic<br />
Moravian mission villages. In fact, the Cederberg<br />
Heritage Route is all about developing its communities<br />
by involving the community members in various ways.<br />
Some offer accommodation while others act as guides<br />
on the hiking routes. They will even transport your<br />
overnight luggage in donkey carts from one village<br />
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