Cycle Tours with Children
You don’t have to wait for the kids to grow up before doing cycle tours when travelling to Cape Town! As AWOL Tours Director and mother of two young children, Sally Petersen has discovered, Cape Town offers plenty of cycling
Hiking the Otter Trail
Hiking the Otter Trail along the Garden Route the oldest and most spectacular of all hiking trails in South Africa has always been on my bucket list, so this winter we decided to go AWOL! After reading up on blogs,
Voila AWOL Tours
AWOL Tours welcomes all hiking and cycling enthusiasts from around the world; and this winter we have been looking for brilliant professional adventure guides who are not just fluent in the language of bikes and hiking boots but also but
Mr. President in Cape Town
Cape Town had a special visitor from the USA, last Sunday. The President Barack Obama, was on a state visit with his family in Africa. After a two day visit to Pretoria and Johannesburg he headed further south to Cape
AWOL’s Table Mountain Winter hiking special
This winter, AWOL Tours is offering a 10% discounted rates for all those wanting to hike up the iconic Table Mountain, whilst the cableway is closed for annual maintenance. This winter, AWOL Tours is offering a 10% discounted rates for
A World of Learning
Long summer holidays in northern hemisphere mean that students have time to travel to Cape Town and South Africa on once in a lifetime travel experience. The AWOL bicycle township tours are a perfect learning opportunity for students on study
AWOL Tours wins ‘Certificate of Excellence’ from TripAdvisor
AWOL Tours has just been awarded its third consecutive ‘Certificate of Excellence’ from TripAdvisor , the largest international travel website with over a hundred million users. Travellers on our hiking and cycling tours in Cape Town independently share personal experiences
100 years in bloom: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Known as ‘the most beautiful garden in Africa’ Cape Town’s botanical garden is a great starting point for AWOL’s hiking tours up Table Mountain. It was Henry Harold Pearson, a British-born South African botanist who founded the Botanical Garden in
Hiking with Klipsringers
AWOL Tour guides recently spotted klipspringers (literally meaning “rock jumper” in Afrikaans) when out hiking on Table Mountain and this time we managed to get close enough to get good pictures when on the Hoerikwaggo trail in the Good Hope section