Groups...

4 min - 9 max.
Age min : 12 years old.

Accommodation...

All nights spent in chalets, bungalows or B&B. Overnight in local village during the trek in Lesotho.

Transport...

In minibus for transfers.

Meals...

All meals are cooked by the guide or the cook. In town meals will be taken in restaurants.

Comfort...

Comfort is correct. In Lesotho comfort is very basic, no shower, no toilets in villages.

Difficulty...

This journey requires a good physical shape. There are no porterages (during the trek, everything is transported on horseback) but the distances of walks are sometimes long and steeply.

Conditions...

What is included...

Transfers, trek on the Wild Coast and in Lesotho, meals included, accommodation, equipment (except sleeping bags), professionals guides, French speaking guide.

What is not included...

International flights, meals excluded drinks, souvenirs, and gratuities.

Day by day

D1 : Johannesburg…

Your guide will meet you at the airport. This is a day to get to know each other and prepare the trip with the rest of the group and the team. Depending on your time of arrival we may have time for a short visit of the city. Meals to your own account.

D2 : Drakensberg – Golden Gate Park...

Departure for the Drakensberg where we settle in the attractive countryside village of Clarens, which bost numerous, well preserved and maintained historical houses, has a quiet atmosphere with a good choice of quality restaurant. Lunch at the restaurant (excluded).

In the afternoon, we take a walk in Golden Gate National PArk. Besides its exceptional mountainous landscapes, Golden Gate shelters an interesting wildilfe:black wildebeast, elands, springbok, zebras graze in the meadows of the park and the big birds of prey are many (only place of the country where we can observe the Bearded Lammergeyer).

D3 : Drakensberg – Royal Natal Park...

Today is dedicated to climbing the Amphitheatre, starting from Sentinel and continuing through the ladders of the same name. At the top, we will be rewarded with a breathtaking view of the land which stretches infinitely in front of us. We will also see the highest waterfall of Southern Africa: Tugela Falls, which drops 300m in three jumps (maybe dry at certain times of the year). About 6 hours walk return. Camping at the same place.

D4 : Lesotho…

We follow the Drakensberg eastward before entering the mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho. In the afternoon, you can enjoy two-hour return walk to view bushman paintings. Overnight in huts at a lodge.

D5-6: Lesotho…

Lesotho really is a hiker’s paradise. The Basotho, the inhabitants of this country, still practice subsistence agriculture, following ancestral traditions, and are dispersed in small villages on the hill sides and in the valleys. In these unforgiving landscapes, it is only their stone huts, with no electricity and running water, which adorn the bare hills.

It is in these mountains that we hike for two consecutive days. Accompanied by our Basotho guides, and with our equipment and food carried by packhorses, we walk six to seven hours per day (500-800m positive climb). We overnight in basic huts in Basotho villages (no bed, no shower).
We sleep in traditional villages, in huts of stones shared by the group (in the local way) on mattresses on the ground. It is an exceptional opportunity to learn to how these people who knew how to keep their independence in spite of the diverse conflicts which shook southern Africa in 19th century. No shower. Basic village toilet.

D7 : Lesotho…

6 hours walk to return to the base lodge where we spend our last night.

D8 : South Drakensberg - Mac Lear…

After breakfast, we return to South Africa and drive south to reach the small village of Mac Lear. (Lunch en route at client's own charge). The area is known for its many Bushmen paintings and the dinosaur prints found in some of its caves. Overnight in cottage on a private farm.

D9 : South Drakensberg - Mac Lear…

The sector shelters one of the biggest densities of Bushman rock paintings of the country (these sites were the object of several publications in National Geographic).
The farm is known for its imprints of visible dinosaurs in some of its caves!
Full day walk which will take us to these relics of the past!
Overnight at the same place

D10 : Wild Coast…

Today, we continue further southeast! Our road leads us in the heart of unique and authentic Wild Coast. We reach our camp, facing the ocean in the afternoon. Possibility of swimming..

D11 : Wild Coast…

Here, we are literally in the heart of a long-gone-by South Africa, where local Xhosa communities still live very much a typical traditional life, herding their cattle and sleeping under thatched roof huts without running water or electricity. We discover this region on foot. Through hills and reefs, beaches inaccessible other than on foot and across estuaries, we walk through what is arguably the most scenic coastal region of South Africa. We walk slowly, enjoying the beaches, the landscape, the rich flora and bird life of this region, without forgetting the whales and the dolphins in season!

The Wild Coast is the home of the Xhosa ethnic group. Our hike is run in collaboration with local communities who provide us with local guides during the walks. This gives travellers the unique chance of sharing genuine moments of their life with the locals and in turn bring benefit to communities through tourism.

Full day walk which will make us pass by magnificent sceneries: rocky formations of cathedral shapes and waterfalls collapsing 100 meters down directly in the ocean! Overnight in the same place.

D12 : Wild Coast…

Full day of walk along Wild Coast. In the middle of the afternoon, we arrive at our lodge built on a hill overlooking the Indian Ocean, right in the heart of the Wild Coast. A river flows at the foot of the hill and its estuary is surrounded by an exclusive sandy beach where one can swim all year long. Near the river lies one of the most beautiful mangrove forest found in the country

D13 : Wild Coast…

A day of relaxation to take advantage of this idyllic place by enjoying the beach and the white sand with possibilities of swimming in the ocean or in the river and or exploring the estuary and its mangrove swamps it canoe.

D14 : Wild Coast - Durban…

After breakfast, we say goodbye to the Wild Coast and take the road for Durban. Have lunch to the restaurant (excluded). Drop off at Durban airport (or possibility of being transferred to Johannesburg). End of the journey!