The President`s Award goes AWOL
AWOL Tours recently conducted an overnight hike with local school girls on our popular Hoerikwaggo Table Mountain hike. The Webbers accompanied by their daughter and her three school mates, embarked on the hike with me. The girls’ aim was to
The Cape’s forgotten cottage
The AWOL Team recently held a party at one of Cape Town’s most historical and forgotten buildings, Sir Abe Baileys Cottage in Muizenberg in celebration of Sally Petersen’s (owner and founder of AWOL Tours) 40th birthday.
Cape Town – not a tour
Inner city Cape Town is not a place for driving through or looking at, it’s a place where you can and should use your legs…get sweaty and loosen up. Jump on a bike. Join a Cape Town city cycle tour, not
Hiking the Drakensberg Mountains
The Drakensberg Mountains is known to some as the ‘roof’ of Africa, the local Nguni people as ‘uKhahlamba’ ( the barrier of spears), and the early settlers as the ‘lair of dragons’ after finding numerous tracks left by the extinct
Whale Watchers
On a recent Garden Route hiking trip, we managed to find time to do a boat based whale watching trip in Plettenberg Bay with Ocean Blue, a Fair Trade and Tourism South Africa certified operator. On a recent Garden Route
Western Cape Wildflowers
Spring has officially sprung here in Cape Town! For those of you travelling during the spring flower season, be sure to add a trip to the West Coast National Park to your itinerary. The beauty of the brightly coloured flowers
Mountain biking in Tulbagh
On a recent expedition to scout out new hiking and mountain biking routes for AWOL Tours, I arrived in Tulbagh Valley, a town known as “Valley of abundance” by the locals.
Waterworks Walk
A hike up Table Mountain with AWOL Tours always offers something different and unique. A lovely option is to hike up Kasteel`s Poort (Castle`s Gate), offers picturesque views of the Atlantic Seaboard. You also have the option to take a
Blooming flowers on Table Mountain
Whilst hiking down Table Mountain on AWOL Tour this week we came across Protea Nitida’s in bloom on lower slopes of Platteklip Gorge . Commonly known as Waboom (wagon protea) as the early settlers used the wood to make wagon wheels for