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During December of 2013 we took a quick pre-Christmas break to Hogsback to celebrate our daughter\u2019s successful academic year.\u00a0 The road took us high up into the Amathole mountains amongst cloud and rain. \u00a0As we arrived at the beautiful Hogsback Arminel Inn the rain was pouring down and our hopes to do some walking diminished. \u00a0 So we were on to plan B at J R R Tolkien\u2019s place of Hobbits and fairies!<\/p>\n

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The Hogsback Arminel Inn<\/p><\/div>\n

Plan B included driving the road (indicated on maps as a normal road, but do not be fooled as this has degraded to a 4×4 track) from Hogsback to Seymour, which was on hubby\u2019s to do list, \u00a0as well as picking up some caches in the area. \u00a0However the weather did not have a sunny outlook so we followed the road less traveled \u00a0through the forest to Keiskammehoek<\/p>\n

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A track leading to Keiskammahoek<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to Geocaching we passed traditional huts and villages, beautiful mountain farms and forgotten small churches in this spectacular area surrounding Hogsback, Seymour, Cathcart and Keiskammahoek.<\/p>\n

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Road side to Carthcart<\/p><\/div>\n

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A small church perched on a hill<\/p><\/div>\n

When the sun peaked for a moment through the clouds we took a walk on leave covered paths in the park and saw some magnificent birdlife, huge California redwoods, waterfalls in flood due to the incessant rain, fairy mushrooms and lush plantations.\u00a0 A photographer\u2019s dream!<\/p>\n

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Waterfalls dotted all over<\/p><\/div>\n

Another beautiful, almost fairy-like, place visited \u00a0in my own country – a tick and a smiley \ud83d\ude42 on my travel bucket list!<\/p>\n

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A massive Californian redwood<\/p><\/div>\n

Too quick the exploring of tree filled lanes in the quaint village with green pastures and\u00a0 good food came to an end and we left with only the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During December of 2013 we took a quick pre-Christmas break to Hogsback to celebrate our daughter\u2019s successful academic year.\u00a0 The road took us high up into the Amathole mountains amongst cloud and rain. \u00a0As we arrived at the beautiful Hogsback Arminel Inn the rain was pouring down and our hopes to do some walking diminished. \u00a0 So we were on to plan B at J R R Tolkien\u2019s place of Hobbits and fairies! Plan B included driving the road (indicated on maps as a normal road, but do not be fooled as this has degraded to a 4×4 track) from Hogsback to Seymour, which was on hubby\u2019s to do list, \u00a0as well as picking up some caches in the area. \u00a0However the weather did not have a sunny outlook so we followed the road less traveled \u00a0through the forest to Keiskammehoek Thanks to Geocaching we passed traditional huts and villages,… Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,86,84,139],"tags":[29,27,385,183,28,348,766],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countries","category-eastern-cape-2015","category-south-africa-geocaching","category-south-africa-geocaching-countries","tag-39-steps-water-falls","tag-california-redwood","tag-eastern-cape","tag-hogsback","tag-hogsback-arminel-inn","tag-off-the-beaten-track-eastern-cape","tag-snow-spots-in-south-africa"],"geo":null,"yoast_head":"\nA WEEKEND VISIT TO HOGSBACK - TRAVELBUCKET<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The road took us high up into the Amathole mountains amongst cloud and rain. 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