2026 Tsitsikamma Trail Guide – The Ultimate Preparation Handbook

The 2026 Guide of the Tsitsikamma Trail 🥾🌿🏞️

Planning to hike the Tsitsikamma Trail, the Otter Trail's mountain sister? This 20-page digital guide has everything you need to get ready for 63.6 km from Nature's Valley to Storms River, through ancient forest, over fynbos ridges and past river pools, high in the mountains above the Otter Trail.

Trail at a glance: 63.6 km · 6 days · 5 nights in huts · 2 to 24 hikers · porterage if you want it · run by MTO Trails

📍 What's inside

• ✅ Welcome and trail overview: the route from Nature's Valley to Storms River, with a map and the distance and climb for each day
• ✅ Booking and fees: prices, rules and how to get a spot
• ✅ Training and weather: how to get fit and which season to pick
• ✅ Packing list: everything you need, ready to tick off
• ✅ Food: light meals with lots of energy
• ✅ Day by day: all six days, step by step
• ✅ Things to look forward to: the best bits of the trail, including the river pools to swim in
• ✅ Checklist and useful links: final checks and contacts

📥 Instant download: you'll get a link to the PDF by email straight after checkout. Save it to your phone so you can use it on the trail.

🔗 Have questions? DM @LindaHikesSouthAfrica on Instagram or email lindahikessouthafrica@gmail.com