The area derived its name from the once near-extinct and rare Clanwilliam Cedar tree and characterized by a stunningly rigged mountain-range. The area offers a fascinatingly stark landscape with the amazing rock-formations it forms, the crystal-clear streams and rock-pools, waterfalls, caverns, peaks, overhangs and ravines. The beautiful area used to be home of the San or the Bushmen and the Khois and they left many wonderful-sites to view their unique rock-art. To get your journey started, you can book an affordable and cheap flights to South Africa with us.
It’s South Africa in the whole world where you can hope to find the rock-art’s richest legacy and the Cederberg Wilderness Area is home to the densest rock-paintings per aq.km in South Africa. You’ll find a prolific wild-life in the area comprising of about thirty mammal-species including Grey Rhebok, Klipspringer, grysbok, steenbok, wild-cats, leopards, bat-eared foxes, caracals and the baboons. Bird lovers also get a lot of choice and many species to see including orange-crested sugar-birds, sunbirds, bee-eaters and a variety of raptors like the black eagle, black sparrow hawk, jackal buzzard and the rock kestrel.
Cederberg Wilderness Area is also a very attractive area to see the Cape Floral Kingdom’s vegetation which is famous worldwide for the richness and variety of plant species it supports. The area is also home to the tea-plant known as Rooibos and many other varieties of Buchu with their fragrant-oils. The natural attributes of the area make it so diverse that any kind of visitor whether it is a nature lover a hiker of a mountaineer will find visiting it worthwhile. The area is also traversed by a number of dirt-top roads and an extensive network of 254 KM of un-market and well maintained with footpaths laid out.
Two of the towns namely Citrusdal and Clanwilliam are located in the mountain’s foothill and are at a 2 to 3 hour drive North of the Cape Town both offering ample options for accommodations suiting needs of many types.
If you get a chance to visit the fascinating Cederberg Wilderness Area, its highly recommended to climb-up the Wolfberg Cracks up to the arch. Although it’s a serious hike but once you have experienced the splendor of it and get to the top, you’ll notice it was worth it. At the second place hiking in Maltese cross is also highly recommended and is comparatively easier than the former and you’ll get a chance to see magnificent rock formations.
