INTO THE WILD ONCE MORE
A new guided hike offers travellers the chance to explore one of SA’s most beautiful coastlines, writes Paul Ash
Everyone with a bit of adventure in their souls needs to go hiking on the Wild Coast. The thing is, though, the hike has had its ups and downs in past years — not helped by the fact that it is a very long trail with hardly any amenities such as the trail huts and maps that you find on managed trails like the Otter, Amatola and Swellendam hikes, which are maintained and backed by official bodies. Still, the Wild Coast has seen the arrival of guided slackpacking trips on which you can get your boots muddy on some of the most spectacular territory in the world.
Now an outfit called Wowzulu has, with the help of Ugu South Coast Tourism, relaunched a multi-day hiking trail on the coast.
The Wild2SouthCoast Walk is a three- or four-day guided walk that explores some of the cultural, heritage and natural sites on the coast. The trail begins in Ramsgate — at the famous waffle house tearoom on the lagoon — and ends in the Eastern Cape. The route takes hikers over rolling green hills to waterfalls and deep river gorges, through villages and past at least one shipwreck. And of course, along some of the finest beaches in the land. wowzulu.co.za.