Let your personal pilgrimage support the warm and welcoming locals of the West Coast Way of South Africa.
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Cape Camino has launched a further eight days to the local Wet Coast Way Camino Pilgrimage route. This will bring the total number of days on Camino in South Africa to thirty two.
A Camino is a Pilgrimage. A spiritual experience. To be used at your leisure, in your way, for your purposes. To reflect, explore, reunite. To create meaning in your own life for your own purposes.
CAMINO DE SANTIAGO – OUR INSPIRATION
Cape Camino is inspired by Europe’s Camino de Santiago originating in Spain. Spanish citizens are expected to walk their local Camino as a form of nation building. It is an obligation, in order to get into universities and attain jobs in the workplace.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards walk their local Camino. Building the nation, building tenacity, bonding families and developing internal strength and maturity.
Cape Camino offers this opportunity to South Africans and international visitors
Now you, too, can walk South Africa’s Camino: Cape Camino.
The Cape Camino is a showcase of our magnificent diversity. No two days are alike. The route is owned and hosted by the community: farmstays, homestays, Church communities, villages, small towns. All offering the Cape’s unprecedented hospitality.
The Cape Camino has 4 sections:
- Filled with wine, farms, and deep valleys: Wellington to Tulbagh
- Farm & Community: Tulbagh to Aurora
- Sand ‘n Strand: Aurora to Velddrif via Redelinghuys and Elands Bay. This is the Sandveld, Strandveld and West Coast section of the Camino. Spend the nights at Klein Tafelberg, Redelinghuys, Klarefontein, Elands Bay, Fork West, Dwarskersbos and Velddrif.
- And the Peninsula – following the Cape Town Big 6 attractions
Each section is approximately 8 days long.
The terrain is tough, the distances are long but the hosts meet you with wide open arms, comfort and safety. The rural areas provide travellers with very low Covid exposure. You walk in the open air, you walk to and between rural communities. There are no cars, trains or planes. Your hosts have not been travelling and have been away from crowds.
Your contribution will bring sustainability to small rural communities, particularly in the hospitality and tourism sectors. Each logistic that is needed by the Pilgrim offers a job to thousands of individuals on the route.
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PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY WEST COAST WAY
West Coast Way Is South Africa’s Road Trip With The Most Twists
Explore the Cape West Coast by planning a self-drive trip or book a guided tour for a nature and adventure-filled Cape West Coast holiday.
Find a 101+ things to see and do on the West Coast Way:
Enjoy wine, craft beer, olives and Rooibos tea tastings, Weskus cuisine and braaivleis (barbecue), swing into Citrusdal with a zipline, go Cederberg bouldering, jump into natural (warm) pools, step onto cruises of lagoons and rivers, trek through nature reserves and a National Park, hop onto game drives, try the skill of archery and angling, get your adrenaline pumping with sand-boarding and quad-biking, go horse riding, learn about the San culture and Riel-dancing, do kite- and windsurfing, chill in your flip flops and do surfing, book a kayaking trip, go beach hopping, learn about bees, whales and listen to our birds in a twitcher’s paradise – all in South Africa’s wildflower reserve.
For more information on the West Coast’s top places to go, road tripping, hikes, tours and trails, explore westcoastway.co.za or call West Coast Way on 0861 321 777. Follow us on @WestCoastWaySA on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.