Kirstenbosch Walking Tour

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Kirstenbosch Walking Tour

Cape Town audio tour: Kirstenbosch Walking Tour
This is a 1mi walking tour
It takes an average of 60 mins to complete.
$4.99
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About the Tour

This walking tour takes you on a loop through the lower slopes of the gardens. It has a little bit of everything of interest, including botany, history, landscape, art and culture. It’s a walk of sensual delight through the natural beauty of the gardens throughout, and you even get to touch and smell the fynbos in the fragrance garden! The walk goes via the rare plant garden and erica beds to the forested dell and prehistoric cycad collection. It carries on into the wilder parts of the garden, through the tree tops on the boomslang canopy walkway. The return loop of the walk is via the succulent garden, spring flowerbeds and the Zimbabwe stone sculpture collection.

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Tour Producer

For the past nearly 30 years, I've worked as a researcher and development practitioner specialising in forests, people and trees. My work has taken many different forms, from sacred forests to indigenous tenure rights to timber plantation labour.

I have kept up an amateur interest in botany and I have a special love for the Cape's indigenous flora, fynbos. I also come from a long line of devoted women gardeners, and as I get older, I'm spending more and more time in my own garden.

I take advantage of living in beautiful Cape Town, by swimming in the sea and hiking in the mountains as often as I can. I've been here for 17 years now, and I'm still amazed at my good fortune!

Preview Location

Location 19

Canopy Walkway

Turn left here, and follow the pathway into the forest. Keep going for about 20 metres, and you’ll be able to see the start of the Tree Canopy Walkway on your left. Unless you have a terrible fear of heights, this is your chance to experience this exciting new addition to the... Read More

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Directions to Starting Point

Gate Two, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.

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Tips

Places to stop along the way

Lawns, The Tea Room, Moyo's

Best time of day

During Kirstenbosch opening hours.

Precautions

Bring a hat in summer, and a raincoat in winter. The only place with WiFi at Kirstenbosch is the Vida e Caffe at Gate One, and 3G is unreliable. The walk starts at Gate Two, and you'd be better off downloading everything before you get there.

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