Kloof Gorge Swing

Four minutes. Then you go.

A sixty-eight metre gorge swing and a full day in the kloof, off the R321 above Grabouw.

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Sixty-eight metres, one step

The platform is bolted into the gorge wall, about twenty minutes on foot from the base camp on the R321. You clip into two independent ropes, each one rated far past what any person weighs, and both of them are load-tested every morning before the first group walks in. Then you step off. Sixty-eight metres of free fall into the swing, a long arc out over the river, and a winch back up to the ledge. The walk home is on your own legs, up the same path you came in on. Most people stand at the edge for about four minutes. Nobody is rushed and nobody is pushed. Some people walk back down without jumping, and that is a normal morning here.

Runs go at 06:00 and 11:00, Wednesday to Sunday.

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Down the gorge with the water high

Six hours in the Hottentots Holland, moving down the river the way the water does. Nine jumps into black pools, a lot of scrambling over wet rock, and one abseil near the end that everybody does because there is no path around it. Wetsuits from May through September. The water comes straight off the mountain and it does not warm up, whatever the temperature is in Grabouw. Minimum age is fourteen, and you need to be able to swim a length without stopping. After heavy rain the run is closed. We do not argue with the river about it, and your deposit moves to the next date that works for you.

Nobody has ever been pushed off this platform.
Sipho Mbatha, head guide since 2014

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Base camp on the R321, 9 km outside Grabouw 021 859 4470 WhatsApp 072 411 8836 Runs at 06:00 and 11:00, Wednesday to Sunday The full kloof line runs October to April