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Cycling in Helderberg

Rider and landscape — moving as one thing. There is a particular quality to watching a cyclist move through the Helderberg. The terrain does something to the relationship between person and place that is difficult to achieve at a standstill — the vineyards flow past...

Seasons of the Helderberg

Four seasons. Four completely different valleys. Most people think of the Cape as a summer destination. They are not wrong — but they are only one quarter right. The Helderberg changes profoundly across the year, in mood, in colour, in what it offers and who it suits....

Golf in the Helderberg

MAN MADE — AND YET THAT FEELING EXISTS. Every golf course is, technically, an act of human invention. The grass is irrigated, the fairways are shaped, the greens are manicured to a standard that nature left to itself would never produce. And yet something genuine...