South Africa - Wild Coast Adventure

The Wild Coast Horse and Hiking Trails enable visitors to immerse themselves in this vast and unspoilt landscape, to truly discover the Wild Coast.

Amadiba Adventures offers you an exciting journey to the northernmost section of the Wild coast region in an area of hills and waterfalls, petrified forests and ancient archaeological sites, long white beaches and the skeletons of old shipwrecks. It is home to the AmaMpondo farming people who ride the hills and valleys on their hardy ponies. There are 4 or 6 day horse and hiking trails. The horse trails are guided at a pace where you can take in the surroundings and there are horses for all abilities. Accommodation is in large meru tents on wooden bases with hot outdoor showers and all food is included in the price.

Itinerary

Wild Coast Trails Office – Mzamba River – Kwanyana Camp
Day 1
After being greeted and briefed at the Mzamba Craft Centre, your guide will accompany you for 3 km hike to the Mzamba River where you will be ferried across the narrow waters by canoe. Once across the river, it is time to enjoy a 4 hour horse ride along the unspoilt beaches and undulating hills dotted with Pondo settlements. The first camp Kwanyana is set on a riverbank with a vista over the archaic 'Red Dunes' and the Indian Ocean. Local caterers provide you with a wholesome dinner under the stars. Accommodation is in spacious tents (duvets and bedding provided) and facilities include hot outdoor showers.

Kwanyana Camp – Mkambati Reserve – Mtentu Camp
Day 2
After breakfast, you continue to horse ride through thick dune forest to the 'Red Dunes', a phenomenal landscape, which is a marked contrast to the green valleys and blue sea. You continue along sandy beaches, rugged outcrops and hills to arrive at Mtentu Campsite. Mtentu is an inspiring camp that looks over one of the most spectacular estuarine gorges in South Africa. After lunch your party crosses the Mtentu River by canoe for a hike into the Mkambati Nature Reserve which has abundant wildlife and is a botanical hotspot. The hike includes a visit to a shipwreck and waterfalls – one of which cascades directly into the sea. After lunch in a Strandloper cave and perhaps a swim, your party returns along a more inland route back to Mtentu Camp.

Mtentu Camp – Mtentu Estuary
Day 3
Today you will take a canoe trip up the beautiful Mtentu Estuary, a marine sanctuary. It is renowned due to the Mkambati Miniature coconut palm that grows nowhere else in the world and for the huge shoals of Giant Kingfish that enter the estuary in the summer months. The canoe trip allows one to marvel at the forest, cliffs and waterfalls. Lunch is served in a pristine setting deep in the river gorge, before heading back to camp. A night-walk into the community for a homestead visit is an optional activity.

Mtentu Camp – Mnyameni River – Mzamba River – Mzamba Craft Centre
Day 4
After crossing Mnyameni River the trail heads inland to a series of natural pools where a break is made for lunch. From there it's back to the beach for the final leg to the Mzamba River, then on to the Wild Coast Trails office at Mzamba Craft Village.

This trip can be added on to any South African safari.
Please contact us for further details.