Buffelsfontein

If you’ve ever driven to the West Coast National Park or taken the N7 north up the West Coast, you’ve driven past Buffelsfontein. But not many people know there’s a fun 4x4 trail hidden behind its gates, because Buffelsfontein is mostly marketed as a nature reserve as well as a conference and wedding venue.

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A short distance away from these neat facilities lies a sand trail that makes for some great 4x4 driving for you and a few mates – and it’s only an hour’s drive from the city.

It’s “only” a grade 2 to 3 trail, but at the end of the Western Cape’s bone-dry summer, Buffelsfontein’s sand is as loose as a packet of Tastic rice. No tyre pressure higher than 0.8 will survive.