Where to Walk in South Africa for a Week: 7-Day Walking Adventures

Walking through the South African landscape on Cape Camino

If you’re wondering where to walk in South Africa for a week, you’re spoilt for choice. From dramatic mountain ranges and wild coastlines to vineyards, farmland and rural communities, South Africa offers an extraordinary variety of week-long walking experiences. A week-long walk doesn’t have to be about conquering a trail or seeing how many kilometres […]

Cape Camino: The Complete Guide to Walking South Africa’s Camino

Pilgrim walking through countryside on Cape Camino in South Africa

There is a different way to experience South Africa: slowly, on foot, one day at a time. Cape Camino is a long-distance walking pilgrimage across the Western Cape of South Africa, created for people who want to experience the landscape, communities and people of the Cape in a deeper and more meaningful way. Stretching for […]

Cindy Aiello’s Cape Camino Journal

Cindy Aiello’s Cape Camino Journal

Cindy Aiello, USA living in Switzerland Walked 14 days of West Coast and Peninsula sections. Distances were shortened (between 10-15km per day). She walked with her husband, Robert, a South African couple and a few individual pilgrim-joiners. DAY 1 : 7km Laaiplek to Veldrift Day one (9Feb) of our Cape Camino (the team provided shorter […]

Deb Shucka’s Cape Camino Journal – Peninsula

Deb Shucka’s Cape Camino Journal – Peninsula

Deb walked the full 40 days of Winelands, Farmlands, Community, Sandveld and Strand, West Coast and Peninsula sections. She started in August and ended in October of 2022 and was joined by small groups of pilgrims along the way. READ ABOUT DAY 1 – 32: WELLINGTON TO LANGEBAAN DAY 33 : By Car Langebaan to […]

Deb Shucka’s Cape Camino Journal – Wellington to Langebaan

Deb Shucka’s Cape Camino Journal – Country Route

Wellington to Langebaan Deb walked the full 40 days of Winelands, Farmlands, Community, Sandveld and Strand, West Coast and Peninsula sections. She started in August and ended in October of 2022 and was joined by small groups of pilgrims along the way. PACKING LIST Toiletries: Worn/Carried (for travel): The first laundry services were available on […]