Year in the Wild Blog

Getaway Magazine – September 2011 – Cederberg Wilderness Area

My photograph of the magnificent Wolfberg Arch was published as the opening double-paged spread in Getaway Magazine's "Ultimate Getaways", a selection of photographs of Africa's best escapes. (0.4MB size).

Memories of the Cederberg…

I'm now in the Tankwa Karoo National Park, but I'm only about 50kms due east of the Cederberg, where I was last week. I can see the range of mountains from Varschfontein Cottage, where I have been staying the last two nights. It's strange to be so close to the Cederberg, yet the Tankwa is so very different in many ways. It's much drier, it's flatter (although there are plenty of koppies), and it has a different sense of wilderness - as impressive, but distinctive in its own way.

Here are
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Ghosts of the San at Wolfberg Arch

The Cederberg has exceeded our expectations...and they were high to begin with! As you may have read in Thandi's blog recently, we have just finished a spectacular hike to the Wolfberg Arch, via the famous Wolfberg "cracks". We slept out under the waxing moon, and there wasn't a breath of wind. As I wrote in my Read more »

Guest Blog by Thandi Davies – Ten days in the wild

Ten days in the wild

"Look just a little higher please?" This was the phrase that was to become one of the more common ones on our two day hike up the Wolfberg cracks and to the Wolfberg arch… as I was asked to pose on one precarious rock and then another, with my head at just the right angle to get the perfect silhouette!

I was pretty nervous to do this hike, especially as we were camping out under the arch in mid-winter. But the weather proved to be perfect and the almost full moon
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