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Intro...

Day 1: 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 at your own account.

Base BB
Breakfast and the visit of the City included

Day 2: Drakensberg - Golden Gate Park...

Departure for the Drakensberg where we settle in the attractive countryside village of Clarens. It is characterised by a quiet atmosphere with a good choice of quality restaurants. In the afternoon, we take a walk in Golden Gate National Park. Dinner at the restaurant (at your own account). Night in a B&B.

Base BB
(Breakfast and activities included)

Day 3: Drakensberg - Royal Natal Park...

Today is dedicated to climbing the Amphitheatre, starting from Sentinel and continuing through the ladders of the same name. 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. We spend the night at the same place. Dinner at the restaurant at your own account.

Base BB
(Breakfast and activities included)

Day 4: Lesotho…

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

Base FI

Days 5-6: Lesotho…

Lesotho really is a hiker’s paradise. 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.

Base FI

Day 7: Lesotho…

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

Base FI

Day 8: 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 in a private farm.

Base FI

Day 9: 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.

Base FI

Day 10: 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.

Base FI

Day 11: 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.

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.

Base FI

Day 12: Wild Coast…

Full day of walk along the 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.

Base FI

Day 13: 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.

Base FI

Day 14: Wild Coast - Durban…

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

Base BB

Practical info...

Trip starts: Johannesburg airport.
Trip ends: Durban airport.

Groups...

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

Accommodation...

All nights spent in chalets, bungalows or B&Bs. 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.