The original inhabitants of the Cape – the Khoekhoen and San tribes - called Table Mountain Hoerikwaggo – "sea mountain" or "mountain in the sea"
Hoerikwaggo™ Trails
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Hoerikwaggo™ Trails
Our Guides
The Hoerikwaggo™ Trail guides are the pride of the Table Mountain National Park and their story is an inspirational testimony to the successful combination of opportunity and commitment.
The guides are all previously unemployed people, recruited from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town and selected through a rigorous process that involved interviews and fieldwork.
Once selected the guides received formal field guide training that will ensure that hikers are guided by professionals with a good understanding of safety principles, first aid and map reading as well as knowledge of the cultural and natural wonders of the mountain chain.
However, dealing with tourists requires more than just good technical knowledge so Theatre for Africa, a developmental drama group, has trained our guides in the art of story telling which will ensure that they can interact confidently with visitors from all walks of life.
All Hoerikwaggo™ Trail Guides have the following qualifications:
- National Certificate in Tourism; Guiding NQF level 4
- MDT Basic Walking Leader Certificate
- First aid levels 1 and 2
Resulting competencies include:
- Navigation
- Customer Safety
- Customer Care
- Ecological Studies
- Animal & Bird Theory
- History of Cape Town and South Africa
- Interpretive Guiding
- Emergency Response
- Itinerary Development
- Basic Computer Skills
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