I did the Amatola hiking trail at the end of 2009! To make a long story short, it’s an excruciating route where uphill means uphill, downhill means downhill and aggressive bees are aggressive!
Day 1
The road there
The start of the route
The short cut while it would have been a short cut!
A little later (about 5km gaining about 500m in altitude) we came to a place where the only way forward is to cross a narrow ledge right above a bee hive using a chain. We obviously didn’t know about the bees until one manage to get hold of my scalp!
Yeah, maybe we should have listened!
They may call it a timber chute, but it’s actually just an uphill that goes forever!
This timber chute was on the short cut. Seems there is a reason why it’s shorter in distance!
Day 2
Look at the view, quickly, you have 19km to hike today!
Day 3
Day 4
Giant earth worm!
Waterfall
Waterfall
Stairs
Some more waterfall
Stairs and hut
Day 5
Wolf valley
O wait, not quite yet
Day 6
no shade
no shade
top
no shade
seriously
Some blisters
Sorry, I had to put this photo up