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FEATURE

SOUTH AFRICA’S

WILDFLOWER SEASON

ach year, following the Cape’s winter natural event, offering a five-day experience life within the Cape Floral Kingdom,” says
rains, a rare and brief transformation at peak flowering time in August and Carmen Lerm, founder of West Coast Way.
Eoccurs along the country’s Cape September. The tour begins in Melkbosstrand, where
West Coast. For just a few weeks, open “With West Coast Way, the Cape West a limited group of 18 guests per tour can
plains and scenic coastal routes from the Coast Biodiversity Corridor reveals itself enjoy a traditional West Coast dinner and
outskirts of Cape Town to the Cederberg, as one of the world’s 36 biodiversity tour briefing on the first night at The Lodge
Namaqualand, Nieuwoudtville and hotspots, rich in colour and botanical at Atlantic Beach. The following two nights,
Hantam Karoo are carpeted with colourful diversity. From rain daisies and lilac guests will enjoy accommodation and
wildflowers, showcasing daisies, vygies, and drumsticks to bobbejaantjies, Cape tulips dinner at Letsatsi Lodge in Vanrhynsdorp.
an extraordinary variety of endemic species and gousblomme, the Fynbos, Strandveld The morning of day two, the journey
found nowhere else in the world. and Renosterveld ecosystems form a vivid heads north through the Piekenierskloof
The West Coast Way Wildflower & Foodie spectrum of hues, affirming the West Pass to Clanwilliam, with visits to Ramskop
Tour is scheduled to coincide with this Coast as a treasure trove of endemic plant Garden and the famed Biedouw Valley,

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