The Fynbos Guy Blog
Big Country: Cederberg Hiking
Deep in the Cederberg Mountains the silence hangs like a blanket. It’s so quiet here that your ears tingle. But you are not alone. Leopard tracks line the paths you walk on, and your journey into the wild is watched by ravens and eagles. The scenery is breathtakingly...
A Table Mountain Hike, Cape Point & Penguins: One Big Day, One Big Experience
Pushed for time in Cape Town? Keen to take advantage of good weather? You can do all three of Cape Town’s best natural attractions –Table Mountain, Cape Point and Boulders Beach penguin colony - on a single day tour. And that includes a Table Mountain hike, with or...
Cape Town Fires: The Race Begins
It’s been seven weeks since fire devastated the central mountains of the Cape Peninsula but they are already turning green. Fresh new leaves are everywhere you look, pushing skywards with unmistakable urgency; after all, fire in the fynbos is nothing less than the...
Cape Town Fires – What Happens Next?
The fire began at night. Fuelled by the heat of Cape Town’s hottest ever recorded day and stoked by gale force winds, it rampaged across the middle of the Cape Peninsula from coast to coast. Five thousand hectares of mountain vegetation were incinerated as were...