The beautiful, rustic but luxurious camp is built from timber felled and milled in the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP).
Following the principal of Touching the earth lightly, only previously damaged sites were selected, and the design ensures minimum environmental impact.
Smitswinkel Camp provides hot water, open fires, and a fully equipped kitchen for self catering clients.
The camp links up as accommodation on route on the Hoerikwaggo Trail - a 5 day and 4 night hike from Cape Town to Cape Point or vice versa. However, if you wish to simply experience spending a night at this tented camp, book the accommodation and use it as a base from where you can enjoy all the Cape Point outdoor activities.
The camp is situated about 300m outside from the entrance gate to the Cape Point along Plateau Road close to Smithswinkel Bay. The name Smitswinkel (the blacksmiths shop) was given to this pretty little bay because of two rocks that jut out of the sea which resemble an anvil and a bellows. The bay is reached by a steep footpath.
Be Aware: there are baboons in the vicinity and when given the opportunity they will enter the tent and destroy property and personal belongings.
View also the other Tented Accommodation in TMNP.
* Enjoy walking in the Cape of Good Hope section of the Table Mountain National Park ( TMNP). There are 6 walks of 2 to 6 hours.
Cape Point to Smitswinkel:
The hike starts at Cape Point Lighthouse within the Cape of Good Hope section of the TMNP. Walk along the False Bay Coast to the old Smitswinkel Bay Forest station and this walk is approximately 15km long. Enjoy the vast tracts of fragrant fynbos where buck and other mammals roam such as the Chacma baboons, reptiles and birds.
Smitswinkel to Buffelsfontein Visitors Centre:
This is about 8km hike (from 4 to 5 hours) starting at Smitswinkel along the False Bay Coast to the Cannon and Lime Kiln and onwards to the Buffelsfontein Visitors Centre.
Cape of Good Hope:
From the car park to the old lighthouse
Olifantsbos:
Circle route from the car park via the Arch, Sirkelsvlei and shipwrecks past Olifantsbos Cottage.
Platboom/ Gifkommetjie/Phyllisia
Walk along the Atlantic coast section of TMNP.
* Self drives through the Cape of Good Hope reserve. Look out for Eland, Red Hartebeest, Bontebok and Zebra.
* Visit Cape Point which offers visitors a excellent viewing opportunities from the two lighthouses that adorn the point. The lighthouse is accessible by foot or you can catch the Flying Dutchman funicular to the top.
* Visit Two Oceans Restaurant and the Tigers Eye Curio Shop.
* Also angling, picnicking, beaching and cycling opportunities against the spectacular backdrop of the mountains and coastline of the most south western point in Africa.
2bed Smitswinkel Tent (SMT2): 2 single beds with mattresses, linen and towels, Additional pax limited to X2 per Camp, Additional pax must supply own mattress and linen, Additional pax requests submitted to the Park only, Check in 14H00 to 17H00 winter (Apr- Sept), Check in 14H00 to 18H00 summer (Oct-Mar), Communal Boma, braai area and ablutions, Contact number: 0217809165, Firearms, pets and day visitors not permitted, Minimum adult rate:R722.00 (Additional PAX charge), No functions or commercial activities permitted, No late entry or exit after gate closure, No Security Patrolling at Night, No smoking, No wood allowed, please supply own charcoal, Not suitable for wheel chair access, Vacate before 10h00.
About 300m from the Cape of Good Hope entrance gate at Cape Point along Plateau Road.
