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Schalk Cronjé

I was really impressed with the High 5 trail. Trail layout is optimised for the available terrain.

Although there are some 600m elevation changes, the trail is still easily within the reach of anyone with decent mountain experience. Elevation changes lead to different flora and geology.

Slackpacking options make it accessible to many people with less hiking experience and fitness levels. It also simplifies it for foreign tourists who do not have to bring a lot of hiking gear.

We saw a lot of free roaming zebra, blue wildebeest & blesbok. As usual there baboons around and some vervet monkeys.

Anyways, here is I having breakfast on a rocky outcrop at our first overnight stop.

A person sitting on top of a rocky outcrop having breakfast.
#high5trail#hiking#southafrica
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Schalk Cronjé

The Uitkomst (meaning 'outcome') waterfall.

Not easily reachable by car. The best is to hike an appropriate section of the High5 trail and sleep at the Candlewood hut.

This is also known as the Bridal Leap waterfall after a bride that fell down it with wedding dress and all somewhere in the early 1900s.

We encountered this fall on our 3rd day of hiking. We left our packs at the hut and then scrambled to the bottom of the falls.

A person in a red shirt sits near the bottom of a waterfall and is dwarfed by the size of it.
A tall waterfall in the distance tumbles straight down. Near the bottom it splits in two. There is a cliff face and small forest on both sides.
A waterfall viewed from below. There are many rocks below which are wet due to the misty spray.
The top two thirds of a waterfall showing how it starts small and then doubles in width. There is a small forest and some grassland to the front which obscures the bottom part of the falls.
#waterfallwednesday#hiking#southafrica
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