Kouga Wilderness

Clearly you’ll be wanting to spend much of your time here exploring your immediate surrounds, but when it’s time for a change of scenery, you may like to set forth for the coast and a day on the sandy beach at Eersterivierstrand (an hour and a half’s drive). Need more adventure in your life? This stretch of coast is well supplied with adrenaline activities: Tsitsikamma National Park (an hour and a half) is a hub for ziplining, tubing, abseiling and canopy tours through the ancient rainforest – where some of the trees are around 700 years old. Still craving more? The highest commercial bungee jump in the world is an hour and 45 minutes’ drive away at Bloukrans Bridge. Those who’d prefer to keep their feet firmly down at ground level should steer instead to the shaded tree-lined paths of Skrijwershoek Arboretum (45 minutes) or get close up to the rescue animals at the Tsitsikamma Wolf Sanctuary (an hour and 20 minutes).