Dubbed the biggest awards show of the year, Kfm 94.5 invited the people of Cape Town to vote across 30 categories for the 2022 Best of the Cape Awards. No funny business, just you choosing the Mother City’s finest. And Cape {town} Etc is adding to the gees by proudly supporting each winner.
Stay tuned: over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing a full feature story on each of your favourites. Ready for the ultimate views from the top? This is the ‘Best Adventure Experience’ in Cape Town:
The best adventure experience winner: Cape Canopy Tour
Have you ever wondered what the Cape’s gorgeous mountains and rivers look like from a bird’s eye view?
Situated in the Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve, about an hour from Cape Town, Cape Canopy Tours will take you into a previously inaccessible and pristine part of this amazing World Heritage Site to soar through the air on 11 thrilling ziplines, some over 100 metres high. This is Africa’s first-ever canopy tour. “What a jol!”
After a safety briefing and kitting up, you’ll receive the “African massage” treatment on the bumpy open, 4×4 ride into the mountain range.
Professional guides ensure that strict safety standards are followed, but never without a healthy dose of wit and laughs. Some of the current employees even helped build the zipline system from scratch some years ago, carrying all the equipment up the mountains manually, then hanging mid-air from the cables for hours on end to build the sturdy platforms.
Rest assured, all of the Ziplines are regularly checked, and are designed by a civil engineer.
Slide along steel cables from platform to platform over waterfalls and fynbos, whizzing through the air on lines up to 320m long. There is always one guide that speeds off first to make sure all is well and catch the wide-eyed guests on the other side. Another guide, who goes last after everyone is safely on the other side, is also available for tandem rides should anyone feel more comfortable taking the “zipline Uber”.
The company is all about supporting locals and empowering their community. That’s why every guide hired is from the area.
With adrenaline still rushing through your veins after the adventure, take the 30-minute walk back to the pickup spot and return with hungry tummies to the smell of the Elgin valley’s famous Peregrine pies.
There’s really no better view than one from the top, and Cape Canopy Tours will get you there in the coolest possible way.
Cape Canopy Tour’s details:
- Website: www.canopytour.co.za
- Location: Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve | S 34° 04’ 15”, E 19° 02’ 59”
- Bookings: www.canopytour.co.za/book-now/cape/
- Cost: from R895
- Age: 5+
- Contact: 021 3000 501 | [email protected]
The finalists in this category were:
- Blade Charters in Hermanus
- Cape Canopy Tour in Elgin
- Fatbike Tours in Gansbaai
- Go Dive Mossel Bay in Mossel Bay
- Sharklady Adventures in Gansbaai
The 2021 winner of this category: Southern Right Charters
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