Botterboom Trail

The 'hills' along the river are planted with a variety of mainly indigenous plants. During 'Labour Day' 2001 Herman and Maart (both feeling the privilege to 'labour') digged a pathway over one of the hills along 'our' Klonki River (named after the operator of the excavator). This path is now known as the Botterboom Trail ; with approx. 80 metres being the shortest hiking trail in the Western Cape . This trail leads visitors along shrublike succulents with a characteristic green 'bark'. South Africans with the Afrikaans as mother language call this succulent 'botterboom' but botanists pur-sang prefer 'Tylecodon paniculatus'.

On top of the trail one has a nice view onto the surrounding gardens