KHOISAN ADVENTURE TROPHY 2026

KHOISAN ADVENTURE TROPHY – Follow in their footsteps..

Saturday 05 September – Registration

• Registration will take place on the farm Rietpoort close to Loxton in the Karoo.
• Included will be camping accommodation and a sumptous Karoo meal

Sunday 06 September 

• Depart Rietpoort and explore the mountains on the edge of the Karoo National Park.
• Camping with limited ablutions deep in the valleys on a neighbouring farm.

Monday 07 September 

• Following on the footsteps of the Khoisan we drive to the town of Fraserburg, and visit the musem.
• From here it is a short drive where we will “enter a giant storybook of the past” and enjoy a guided tour of a nearby fossil site.
• The Karoo was home to incredible creatures that lived long before the dinosaurs, including the ancestors of tortoises, lizards, mammals and even us!
• Did you know – the Karoo is the longest fossil timeline in the world!
• Camping tonight on a nearby farm with limited ablutions.

Tuesday 08 September 

• Our route today takes us via the South African Astronomical Observatory where you can visit the SALT telescope (own cost and time).
• In Sutherland you are also welcome to visit the local Planetarium, which run daily shows (own cost)
• From Sutherland we drive to a nearby farm for sundowners on the Great Escarpment overlooking the magical Tankwa Karoo, before arriving at our campsite in the wild.
• As soon as it is dark, the farmer will take us through a star gazing journey which he will base on the interpretation of the Khoisan (weather permitting)

Wednesday 09 September 

• We use the magical Ouberg Pass which was one of the first two routes by which the early pioneers could get to and from the “Roggeveld”
• The Tankwa, and more specifically, the Cederberg and Swartruggens mountains on its southwestern flank, is also well known for its abundant evidence of the existence of Southern Africa’s stone-age San people (often referred to collectively along with the coastal Khoekhoe people as the Khoisan). It is thought that the ancestors of the modern Khoisan expanded to Southern Africa over 150,000 years ago, and possibly as early as over 260,000 years ago. Unsurprisingly, cave and rock paintings, as well as stone implements and other evidence of their habitation, abound, dating from tens of thousands of years to not more than a few centuries ago.
• Camping tonight will be at a campsite with full ablutions!

Thursday 10 September 

• Our route today will take us deep into the Cederberg mountains.
• En-route will stop at the small village of Wupperthal.
• Wupperthal (sometimes also spelt Wuppertal) is a small town in the Cederberg mountains in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was founded in 1830 by two German missionaries of the Rhenish Missionary Society (Rheinische Mission), Theobald von Wurmb and Johann Gottlieb Leipoldt, grandfather of C. Louis Leipoldt – some 100 years before the city of Wuppertal was formally established in Germany. In 1965, after the Rhenish Mission had gradually scaled down their activities in Southern Africa over a period of 40 years, a decision was taken that Wupperthal in future should become part of the Moravian Church, which by that stage had already made the transition from a mission to an autonomous church in South Africa. The town remains a Moravian mission station to this day.
• Camping tonight on a farm in the adjascent Biedouw valley – full ablutions.

Friday 11 September 

• Our storey telling host will take us on a short hike to Bushman drawings on his farm, before we use “Hoek se Berg” and the Pakhuis Pass to the town of Clanwilliam.
• After a stop in town, we drive due west to our last campsite just before Lambert’s Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
• Our prize giving and dinner will be at the adjascent Bosduifklip Restaurant where we will enjoy a FRESH seafood buffet in true West Coast tradition  – come HUNGRY!

Saturday 12 September 

• Depart in your own time.
• A visit to Lambert’s Bay with its working fishing trawlers is highly recommended (5 km away)

Cost:

• R 17 000.00 per vehicle (2 x participants)
• Additional adults: R 6000.00 pp
• Children: 6 – 12 R 2500.00 pp
• Children under 6 Free

NEW: Personalised video of you on the Trophy – R 3500.00 

Included:

•  All camping accommodation
•  Karroo lamb feast at registration
•  Fraserburg museum
•  Karoo fossil tour
•  Stargazing close to Sutherland
•  Tankwa Karoo
•  Cederberg Mountains
•  Prize giving and seafood dinner at Bosduifklip restaurant
•  Khoisan experience never to be forgotten

Excluded:

•  Meals not mentioned above
•  Activities in and around Sutherland
•  Two-way radios (Radio rental at R500 for the event)