Striptease Trail
The N2 flies over the Kruis River Bridge with motorists hardly noticing the river below, yet upstream is one of the most pleasant walks on the Garden Route.
The founder of the Tsitsikamma Lodge named it the Striptease Trail, because he was that kind of guy: his idea being that at each successive pool you took off one item of clothing. Those who reached the final of several pools did so kaalgat (naked), as Vossie would have said. The final plunge is into what he aptly dubbed the Honeymooners Pool.
Tsitsikamma Hiking Trail
Some of the most interesting areas of the Cape Fold Mountains have been made accessible to hikers by a number of trails, of which the longer ones form part of the National Hiking Way System.
The Tsitsikamma Hiking Trail, between Nature's Valley and Storms River, runs parallel to the popular Otter Trail but follows the base of the Tsitsikamma Mountains. It meanders through high, humid, indigenous forest on shale, of which one of the most splendid displays is at Nature's Valley, as well as flowering Cape fynbos on quartzite soils.
By David Bristow