The Cape Nature Route focuses on each of the reserves that fall under CapeNature, with its main attention focused on how the communities surrounding these reserves benefit from the reserves and how they play a role in assisting the reserve to fulfil its aims and objectives. This route really illustrates that there can be benefits beyond the boundaries of protected areas; that conservation can mean something to the people living alongside the conservation area, and that the protected areas can benefit from the people who live in their vicinity.
Cape Nature Route
Features
Boesmanskloof Accommodation – Onverwacht Flora and Eagle’s Nest Accommodation
Onverwacht Flora Accommodation is situated high up in the Riviersonderend Mountains - halfway between the twin villages of McGrego...
Honeywood Farm
Honeywood Farm is located alongside Grootvadersbos Nature Reserve in the foothills of the Langeberg Mountains. The farm has been i...
A1 Boesmanskloof Hiking Trail – Die Galg Accommodation
This accommodation is located on the McGregor side of the Riviersonderend Mountains at the start/end of the Boesmanskloof Hiking T...
Accommodation at De Hoek
The Okes family provides accommodation for hikers on the Genadendal Trail or visitors to this beautiful mountain area.
Lismore Farm and Cottages
Lismore Farm has been in the Barry family since 1844, before which it was used as a horse-breeding farm for the Dutch East India C...
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Grootvadersbos and Boosmansbos Nature Reserve
Grootvadersbosch (near Heidelberg) is one of the province's lesser-known reserves, which, for those who know it and keep returning...
Limietberg Nature Reserve
To the north of the old Cape Colony were some scattered farmers and not a lot else… besides the mountain range they called ...
Swartberg Nature Reserve
Swartberg Nature Reserve forms the boundary between the Great Karoo plains and the rugged, undulating Klein Karoo. This rugged mou...
Keurbooms Nature Reserve
This is a trail like no other - it is just you, your boat and the river. And at the end of the trail, to welcome you, is the overn...
Bird Island Nature Reserve
Bird Island is approximately three hectares in size but is one of the most interactive of nature reserves. Birds, seals and the fi...
Kammanassie Nature Reserve
The Khoisan, who left their art in its caves, gave it their name: Kammanassie, ‘Mountain of Water’. Should we only eve...
Vrolijkheid Nature Reserve
It appears that some time ago, much merriment was made in this part of the Little Karoo, for this is what ‘Vrolijkheid&rsquo...
Jonkershoek and Assegaaibosch Nature Reserves
The Jonkershoek area, which includes the adjacent and smaller Assegaaibosch Nature Reserve, serves as a mountain catchment area, w...
Kogelberg Nature Reserve
Kogelberg is Cape Nature’s prettiest reserve; thanks largely to the fact that it occupies an area that has been least interf...
Marloth Nature Reserve
In the 1700's, a party of trekboers - those early burghers-turned-pastoralists who strayed from the Cape and fanned out in to...
Gamkaberg Nature Reserve
"We are fortunate in Africa, as the land forever heightens our sense of exploration, its expanses and its wildness – and we ...
Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area
The jagged range of the Groot Winterhoek draws itself up to 2 077m, blasted silver by the sun in summer and covered in deep drifts...
Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve
The Dutch colonists called the range of mountains they could see in the east the 'Mountains of Africa', as if, once conquered, all...
Walker Bay Nature Reserve
Walker Bay Nature Reserve lies on the south-western Cape coast, just east of Hermanus and covers about 4300ha. The reserve compris...
Salmonsdam Nature Reserve
Bookings: Tel: +27 28 425 5020Fax: +27 28 425 5030E-mail: dehoopinfo@sdm.dorea.co.zaWebsite: www.capenature.org.za/nature_res...
Goukamma Nature Reserve
They say coastal societies get taken in by small distractions, as those of the deserts do by great thoughts. At Goukamma, one find...
Anysberg Nature Reserve
Anysberg comprises 63 000ha between Ladismith and Laingsburg and was proclaimed a reserve in 1988. Game species that populated thi...
Outeniqua Nature Reserve
Outeniqua is a reserve of mountain passes and hiking trails. It offers the visitor a tranquil break from the rigours of daily life...
Robberg Nature Reserve and Marine Protected Area
Robberg is a peninsula where once roamed giant versions of the present-day plains animals, as well as Stone Age people and ancesto...
Rocherpan Nature Reserve and Marine Protected Area
A farmer named Pierre Rocher arrived in this area in 1839. To improve summer grazing for his livestock, Rocher and his workers clo...
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Ruitersbos Contractors
The Ruitersbos Contractors assist the Outeniqua Nature Reserve with the maintenance of hiking trails, the control of alien vegetat...
Garden Services
The van Deventers saw the need for a garden service in Heidelberg and started their business in 2002. The company also does the gr...
Safe Security
Safe Security has appointed four guards who, on a rotational basis, deliver gate guards duties at two entrance gates to Walker Bay...
JC Services
JC Services works on a contact basis for Robberg Nature Reserve, supplying services such as plot clearing, tree felling, gardening...
B&M Bushcamp Services
B&M Bushcamp Services provides a cleaning service for the Gamkaberg Nature Reserve Tierkloof Bushcamp. The company also...
Jan Coetzee Contractors
Jan Coetzee Contractors provides essential maintenance services to the Goukamma Nature Reserve. These services include cutting law...
Bontebok Tours and Travel
Bontebok Tours and Travel was established in the beginning of 2002. The mission of the company is to provide a full range of touri...
Ouplaas Bus Services
Ouplaas Bus Services provides transport for hikers finishing the Whale Trail - from De Hoop back to their vehicles that are left a...
AD Sauls Contractors
AD Sauls Contractors provide a fire management service to the Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve. The team manages natural and man-...
Mrs Min Cleaning Services
Mrs Min Cleaning Services provide the Goukamma Nature Reserve with a variety of services such as the cleaning of the holiday cotta...
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