Blaze the Trails
The trails criss-cross the Cape Peninsula’s mountainous spine, taking walkers through exquisite fynbos and indigenous forest, to dramatic rocky viewpoints, and along easy coastal tracks to beaches, rock pools and whale-watching viewpoints.
Much of the Peninsula is protected as part of the Table Mountain National Park, one of the Cape Floral Region hotspots, with more than 2 200 floral species, 90-plus of them endemic. Fynbos species – proteas, ericas, restios and bulbs – are the dominant vegetation, and many of them are in flower right now.
Time to take out your boots and get out there.
Corridor Ravine
This little-used trail is adventurer-photographer Shaen Adey’s favourite hike on Table Mountain. It’s varied, and also has one of the more gradual ascents, taking you to the end of the Pipe Track, through a lovely shady section of indigenous forest, before contouring beneath the dramatic orange cliffs on its way to the Back Table.
The easiest approach is from the trailhead on Theresa Avenue (opposite Sea Star Rocks Hotel) in Camp’s Bay. Follow the concrete road up the hill through magnificent stands of tree pincushions (, a
