fynbos whisperer GUIDED HIKES

fynbos whisperer is an owner-operated mountain guiding business, established in 2022, based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Owner, Santie Gouws, aka the 'fynbos whisperer', is a full-time, registered and accredited mountain guide, passionate about the region's magnificent mountains and highly bio-diverse flower-rich 'fynbos' vegetation. Santie has developed and offers an exciting and extensive portfolio of authentic guided day-hikes and multi-day hikes all over Table Mountain, the Cape Peninsula and nearby Winelands, Cederberg and Groot Winterhoek mountains for clients to choose from.

AUTHENTIC OFF-THE-BEATEN-TRACK GUIDED HIKING ADVENTURES

SANTIE GOUWS

fynbos whisperer

owner & mountain guide

'At fynbos whisperer we are passionate about the beautiful Cape Mountains. We invite you to join us today for an unforgettable hiking adventure today. Hikes are professionally guided by myself or one of my team to ensure a meaningful connection with nature in a safe and enjoyable environment.'

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WE ARE PASSIONATE

about unlocking the mountains, connecting people with beauty & untamed nature in a safe, fun and sustainable way through authentic, well-curated hiking adventures.

WE VALUE

Authentic off-the-beaten-track hiking

Dancing with the mountain

Being challenged by the mountain

The balance between the dance & the challenge

Santie Gouws, fynbos whisperer owner & mountain guide: 'I first fell in love with mountains 30 years ago when I started my engineering studies at Stellenbosch University. The town, surrounded by mountains, offered exquisite weekend hiking escapes to the most beautiful fynbos flowers, highest mountain peaks, hidden waterfalls and deepest rock pools imaginable.

Since then I've been blessed to have had the opportunity to hike so many truly incredible routes, from Mt Taranaki, Mt Tongariro and Copland track in New Zealand, Mt Glittertind in Norway and the Piton des Neiges and Piton de la Fournais volcanoes on Reunion Island to name but a few abroad, to so many local specials like Sneeuberg, Wolfberg and Tafelberg in the Cederberg, Fonteintjiesberg above Worcester, Turret Peak, Swartberg, Groot Winterhoek and Table Mountain... my favourite still being the Jonkershoek hikes in the mountains above Stellenbosch.

Returning home from a life-changing 10-day solo hike across Reunion island in December 2019, I left a 25-year engineering career to pursue my long-felt passion of wanting to share the deeply revitalizing effect of immersing oneself in nature, especially when hiking across my beloved Western Cape fynbos-clad mountains, with others, and qualified and registered as a full-time Professional Mountain Guide in March 2022.

Join me in my 'office' in the mountains today, and enjoy some fresh water from a mountain stream, or mayhaps a cup of my now renowned rooibos and condensed milk tea ;-)'

We invite you into the mountains with us today to see 'the far' from a-near... so as to share our love and passion for high mountains and spectacular wild nature ... and mayhaps a cup of condensed milk tea.....

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