A walker's valley

Walking is one of the best ways to understand this landscape, and the valley offers routes for every level.

Kloovenburg's farm trails include an easy olive route of about 1.8 kilometres and a mountain route of about 3.8 kilometres. Goedgedacht has marked trails from roughly 3 to 13 kilometres through olives and fynbos.

For a serious day out, the Kasteelberg summit trail climbs about 600 metres in two kilometres behind Pulpit Rock. It has been closed at times, so always check before you go and never hike alone.

And from the door of Huis Agt, the village heritage walk takes you past Victorian houses, two churches and the Royal Hotel in about an hour or two.