It's free, easy and the smart way to fill your rooms. The predominantly Cape fynbos vegetation comprises a wide variety of proteas, ericas and leucadendrons. In the deep pockets of indigenous forest, flowering trees such as wild gardenia and wild almond grow among the bigger stinkwood and yellowwood.
Wildlife induces leopard, baboon and various antelope.
There is also a rich birdlife, including raptors such as eagles and falcons. The reserve has a large variety of reptiles and amphibians, among them the rare ghost frog. Six 16-bed huts accommodate hikers along the route. However, four of these have no fireplaces, so visitors should take their own camp stoves. The terrain along the trail, which winds through both the southern and northern slopes of the Langeberg, is broken and mountainous, and a fair degree of physical fitness is needed, even on the shorter routes.