Hi. Myself and a partner want to do the Swellendam 5 day trail, but the minimum group size is 3 for all overnight hiking. For safety reasons I understand this.
I imagine other hikers have encountered this limitation. Is there a way to join another group or see who else has booked this hike so we can join?
I spoke with cape nature reservations about this but they can not disclose any information about other groups. Joining another group has to be done independently they said.
Has anyone else had this problem and can suggest a work around? Thanks in advance!
I wonder how they enforce it though? Maybe it’s just a case of paying for a third person that doesn’t pitch, and when you arrive to do the actual hike the people at the gate doesn’t bother checking if you really are three people …
My wife and I would be keen to a multi day trek though. Do you sleep in huts on this route or do you have to camp?
Cape Nature’s presence is mostly absent. They hardly enforce or maintain. If you got to places like Krom river, during summer there will be well over 100 people here. No-one pays, mostly full of trash and bottles. If they don’t enforce their own rules, no real need to bend over backwards to follow them. Cape Nature is much like SanParks. Organizations designed to just pay salaries for people who never see the reserves which they are “managing”.
