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The Kututsa hiking trail is situated on the same road that leads to the Sphinx hiking trail. In fact they are only a few km apart.
The base camp is an old barn next to a Polo field. There is a fair amount of climbing on the trail on the first day. The area is typical of this part of the world and resembles the sandstone formations one finds around Golden Gate. Once one reaches the highest point, one can see the overnight rock overhang far in the distance. It's quite a large rock overhang as rock overhangs go. They have put hay in the sleeping areas, for as everyone knows who has stayed in these rock overhangs before, they can get very dusty. Water containers had been placed at the overhang for drinking and cooking.
Day two's trail runs behind the first days trail and also has a fair amount of climbing. Eventually day one and day two's trails meet up again before reaching the old barn base camp.

 
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The old barn base camp

Day one

Climbing ever higher

The rock overhang overnight accommodation in the far distance

 

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The rock overhang overnight accommodation

The sleeping area

Day two

Day two

 

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It's a lovely trail well worth doing and the old barn has a very rustic atmosphere to it. The markings along the trail are sometimes obscured in the long grass so you need to look around often for the trail. When it rains, the trail can get extremely slippery.

Area of Kututsa Hiking Trail Map

more information: Jacana

 

date visited: October 2006

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