Cost: all half day walks: R350 per person

  Nursery/Skeleton circuit                                                                                

Approx hiking time: 3 hours 

Level of difficulty: Both gorges are steep and strenuous. Some ladders and boulders to negotiate. However, no exposure.

Two strenuous gorges, 20 minutes apart. Above Kirstenbosch gardens with magnificent views of False Bay. This route offers some of the best indigenous forests and fynbos viewing on the mountain.

Platteklip Gorge

 Approx hiking time: 2 hours                                                                

Including Maclears Beacon circuit: 3 hours                                                           

Level of difficulty; Steep and strenuous. No exposure

Platteklip Gorge offers the fastest way to the Table Top of the mountain. Spectacular views over the city and Robben Island are a highlight. Take the Cable car down.

This walk may be extended to add a walk to Maclears Beacon the highest point on the mountain.

Newlands Forest circuit

Approx hiking time: From 1 to 3 hours                                                                    

Level of difficulty: Easy

A stroll through the forest of Newlands escaping the city for a while. The numerous paths leading around the forest and to the contour path, mean a walk can take as long as we like.

Rooikats Ravine

 Approx hiking time: 2 hours.                                                                                        

Level of difficulty: A short strenuous climb.

An excellent walk, for those with little time, but keen to get some exercise. The waterfall found at the top of the steep path is well worth the effort. Covered in moss, and slowing to a trickle during the summer months. It is surely one of the most beautiful sights on the mountain.

Lions Head

 Approx hiking time: 3 hours.  

Level of difficulty: Some exposure.

Lions Head, the sugarloaf peak alongside the main Table Mountain,offers some of the best views in the Cape.   A short steep ascent, with magnificent 360 degree views from the top. There are 2 routes possible. One following an exciting scrambling route with the assistance of chains. The other avoids the chains and is a less exciting, but still a steep route.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 For those feeling less than fit

Approx hiking time: 2 hours

 Level of difficulty: Easy.

Taking the cable car up and down the mountain, means you can have a relatively easy and flat walk on the top. An hours walk will bring you Maclears Beacon, the highest point on Table Mountain. (At only 10metres higher then the upper cable way, you don’t have to worry about a huge climb to get there) You can choose a number of different ways back to the cablecar.)

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note

Ask about our other half day walks

-  Transport available on request

-  Prices do not include cost of cable car (where applicable)

-  Prices valid 1 July 09 – 1 Nov 2010 (price from 1 Nov 2010: R450

     per person