The
Garden Route and Eastern Cape
offers a magnitude of Towns and routes
to follow. Read more below.
-Garden
Route Tours, Cape Country, Riviersonderend
RIVIERSONDEREND,
Garden Route, South Africa... The Riviersonderend
conservation area surrounds the towns of Riviersonderend,
Greyton, McGregor and Villiersdorp, 69 000 hectares
of a combination of state land and private property
that together has been declared a mountain catchment
area, supplying the Greater Cape Town Metropolitan
area with water.
It
is without doubt a particularly beautiful part of
the Cape Overberg and Garden Route. The Riviersonderend
Mountain range hugs the conservation area, which
is predominantly rugged, filled with forested kloofs,
rivers, gorges and peaks that beg to be climbed.
It is a hikers’ paradise, in other words.
The mountainous parts of the conservation area extend
along both the western and northern borders of South
Africa, covered by mountain fynbos and numerous
hikes wend their way through the reserve.
The
Genadendal hiking trail in South Africa is but one
of these. It begins and ends in the historic little
town of Genadendal (take the time to visit the Moravian
mission church) and is fairly demanding, although
the panoramic views over the Worcester / Robertson
Karoo and the Overberg are well worth the effort.
The hike incorporates a 25 kilometre circular route
that takes roughly two days.
Whilst
the Riviersonderend conservation area is dominated
by mountain fynbos, the Mediterranean climate supports
other beautiful species such as ericas and proteas
and the numerous water courses are lined with the
likes of wild almond trees and stream conebush.
Leopard tracks in the sand and scratch marks on
the trunks of waboom trees are not uncommon, whilst
sugarbirds, sunbirds and a fair number of raptors
rent the air with their cries.
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