Table Mountain National Park Records Positive Festive Season Numbers
Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) recorded a successful festive season with visitor numbers, crime incidents and fires presenting an overall encoura...
The Garden Route National Park”s Richmond Gewers says “more than 164 000 visitors were recorded in the Garden Route National Park alone. This figure is up by at least 34% from last year (2013).” This might signal an increase in the number of people interested in nature-based tourism.
International Biodiversity Day is important for the GRNP because here nature undepins tourism. “We encourage people to go out and explore the richness of biodiversity in species and ecosystems by hiking or nature walks in the Park.
More than 20 300 species of flowering plants occur in South Africa. One of the six most significant concentrations of plants in the world is the Cape Floral Kingdom, with its distinctive fynbos vegetation. Most of South Africa”s 2 000 threatened plants are found in fynbos.”
How many have you spotted?
The Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park has multiple hikes, ranging from day hikes to multiple day hikes. Day hikes range between 1 km to 15kms whereas multiple day hikes can mean 5 days of walking and 4 days of sleeping in the wild!
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