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Southern Cape Trek


Southern Cape Trek
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Hidden Trails is happy to offer a new horse trek just outside of Cape Town (110 miles), in the Western Cape’s unspoiled Overberg region. Starting out from a lovely 4-star country inn the horse trails move through national parks, nature reserves, the Walker Bay Conservancy and some of the routes of the early settlers in the Cape. You will ride along miles of unspoiled beach, climb rugged mountain terrain with your horse, ride through indigenous forest, cross private farms and vineyards and swim with your horse in dams filled with the purest mountain water. An astounding array of fynbos flora and different landscapes awaits the rider with habitats ever changing. Along with this come a rich –and partly endemic- bird life and the Southern Right Whales, which give birth and mate within the safe waters of the Walker Bay (stretching from the Hermanus Lagoon at Stanford past De Kelders to the fishing village of Gansbaai) between July and December. The Overberg region is one of the hot spots of the the Cape Floral Kingdom - a World Heritage site. By far the best way to discover its richness is by riding on horseback through this botanical wilderness.  Galloping along the shores of the pristine Walker Bay between July and December, you will – as a rule more than as an exception - see whales breaching and playing in the ocean less than 100 meters away. Not surprising that the Southern Overberg is perhaps known better by many as the “Whale Coast”.
Food is prepared for you and will always have a strong local flavor with a high organic content and will always provide you the opportunity to meet the local people over a meal and a glass of one of the splendid local wines. After all, this area is the newest wine region of South Africa: the Agulhas Wine Region. Blessed with excellent soil conditions and cooling evening sea breezes, the Agulhas Wine Region produces award winning wines. What is perhaps even more worth mentioning is that a growing number of vineyards in the Agulhas Wine Region and the adjoining Hemel en Aarde and Walker Bay wine regions, are producing wine in accordance with the standards of the Biodiversity Wine Initiative, a Western Cape project to conserve pristine nature in between the vineyards and the way forward to amalgamate nature conservation and sophisticated agriculture.
The horses used are local South African Crossbreeds (of Arab and Boerperd blood). Surefooted, enduring and fully adapted to the environment with regard to grazing, weather and terrain, they are the true horses of South Africa and the key to a most special opportunity to ride through the wonderful, untouched nature of the region.
The horses roam freely as a herd in the reserve of the farm, part of the Walker Bay Conservancy, and live and function in a fully natural state. They move from pasture to pasture and along the way  and nibble from the natural growing wild shrubs to add essential ingredients to their diet. What applies to them, applies to us: “In company of horses, in balance with nature”. You could not ask for a more ideal partner and friend for many trail days in a truly beautiful part of South Africa.

Highlights:
 · Vast stretches of pristine nature, untouched by man
 · Ever changing landscapes of the Cape Floral Kingdom
 · Long beach canters and rides through white dunes
 · Riding over fynbos covered mountains, through vineyards and farms lands
 · Swimming with your horse in the sea or in a dam
 · Whales in Walker Bay (July – December)
 · Walker Bay Nature Reserve and other (private) reserves of the Walker Bay Conservancy
 · Traversing some of the old wagon routes




Meeting: Gansbaai
Airport: Cape Town
Transfer: Gansbaai
Riders: Min 2 riders
Max 8 riders

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    Southern Cape Trek
    Tour Code: IT-SASROV
    5 days / 4 nights ~$955.00

    Difficulty : Riding Level (Click for legend)
    Lodging: Exceptional
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    Tack: English bridle with snaffle endurance...
    Horses: Boereperd, Arab, Saddler and Friesian ...
    Pace: 5-6 hrs per day - moderate walk, trot ...
    Walk, Trot, Canter,
    Airport: Cape Town
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