Where is Stormsriviermond?
Storms River (Stormsriver) is a small village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It is located in the Garden Route and functions as the gateway to the Tsitsikamma National Park.
What does the word Tsitsikamma mean and what language is it?
The word “Tsitsikamma” hails from the Khoekhoe language tse-tsesa, meaning “clear”, and gami, meaning “water”, probably referring to the clear water of the Tsitsikamma River. Other meanings are ‘place of much water’ and ‘waters begin’.
What are the north and south boundaries of Tsitsikamma?
Southern boundary is a straight line from S34°06.6′, E024°11.665, approximately parallel to the shore, to a point three nautical miles from the high-water mark at S34°01.817′, E023°38.857E measured along a line running due south from the right bank of the mouth of the Bloukrans River, and then due north to a point 0.5 …
Where is Garden Route?
South Africa
The Garden Route (Afrikaans: Tuinroete) is a 300-kilometre (190 mi) stretch of the south-eastern coast of South Africa which extends from Witsand in the Western Cape to the border of Tsitsikamma Storms River in the Eastern Cape.
Where does Tsitsikamma start?
Beginning in Nature’s Valley and ending 62.3km further at either the Storms River Bridge or Village, this six day, unidirectional trail takes hikers through the heart of the Tsitsikamma Mountains.
Where exactly is Tsitsikamma?
The Tsitsikamma mountains form an east-west mountain range located in the Garden Route region of the southern South African coast in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces. Tsitsikamma means ‘place of much water’ in the Khoekhoe language.
Which province is Tsitsikamma?
| Tsitsikamma Mountains | |
|---|---|
| Tsitsikamma Mountains | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Provinces | Western Cape and Eastern Cape |
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What is the meaning of Tsitsikamma?
place of much water
Tsitsikamma is a Khoisan (early inhabitants of the area) word meaning, “place of much water.”
Is Port Elizabeth part of Garden Route?
The Garden Route is a beautiful 200km stretch of coastline in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa – a superb self-drive route. The full extent of the popular self-drive is from Cape Town in the west to Port Elizabeth in the east, a distance of around 800kms if sticking to the N2 motorway.
Is Hermanus part of Garden Route?
Good access points to the Garden Route include Cape Town and George. If you are driving from Cape Town then the route between the Mother City and Mossel Bay is as riddled with great stops (Hermanus, Gansbaai, L’Agulhas, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Still Bay) as the Garden Route.
How do I book Tsitsikamma?
Tsitsikamma
- 042 2811 712.
- 087 158 2110.
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How do I book the Tsitsikamma trail?
Tsitsikamma Hiking Trail Tsitsikamma
- 042 2811 712.
- 087 158 2110.
- [email protected].