“Our favourite!” The 2 hour Storms River Kayak & Lilo Adventure is our most popular adventure activity in Tsitsikamma National Park! If you are keen to explore deeper into the Storms River Gorge in Tsitsikamma, and experience the long, deep, quiet pools, then the Kayak and Lilo trip is for you!
We paddle from the Harbour next to the small beach across the ocean, then under the Suspension Bridge and up the beautiful Storms River Mouth. Please note that if the sea is rough, you have to hike to the Suspension Bridge (along a boardwalked trail), where we then hike along the river from the suspension bridge up to the jetty to where you then get on onto your kayaks. This 1km hike takes about 30 min
This is where the true Kayaking adventure begins – paddling the Storms River, the pinnacle of Tsitsikamma National Park. After waving to all the tourists photographing you from the Suspension Bridge, we continue the kayak trip up the Stormsriver. We paddle right into the bats cave and spend time gazing up at the magnificent and spectacular cliffs all around us, all from the comfort of our double sit-on-top kayaks.
At the low-water point we disembark our kayaks and we jump on our unique Lilo’s. (a Lilo is an inflatable mattress that we’ve had specially made for this trip). From here we walk and float over a short section of rocks and simply wade deeper up the river on the Lilo’s. What a stunning view it is, laying on a Lilo at water level, and gazing up to cliffs that touch the sky! At reaching a certain point, we simply turn our Lilo’s around and float back down river to our Kayaks!
ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN
When the ocean is safe to kayak over the trip will involve in total: 10 minutes briefing, 20-30 minutes of ocean kayaking, 30-40 minutes of river kayaking, 40 minutes on Lilo and +/- 20 minutes Cliff Jumping, swimming and some time in between of just relaxing and enjoying the beautiful view. If the ocean is unsafe to kayak over, the trip will involve in total: +/- 40 minutes of hiking through the forest, 10 minutes of briefing, 30-40 minutes of river kayaking, 40 minutes on Lilo and +/- 20 minutes Cliff Jumping, swimming etc. as above.
PLEASE NOTE: The kayak & lilo activity starts half an hour after the time slot booked for as it takes time to have the briefing (see above), be kitted out etc. Please see below link that will show you where we are located.
https://youtu.be/4KkJRHX-mWQ?si=SruZyd63n3uM0KBU
Clients are not allowed on our activities under the influence of alcohol.
Please note: We are located INSIDE the National Park please see video link below that shows you where we are located, gate entry fees must be paid upon arrival. Please note that we are currently experiencing approximately one-hour delays at the entrance gate due to renovations by SANPARKS. Please allow for extra time.
During the peak summer season, it can take an hour or longer to get through the National Park gate. Please allow for this in your travel planning as there are no refunds for late/no shows.
NOTE: If you are requiring times or group sizes other than those shown please contact our shop on 073 1300 689 / 076 959 2817 during business hours as other time slots may be available.
https://youtu.be/4KkJRHX-mWQ?si=SruZyd63n3uM0KBU
A wonderful experience, enjoying the sea, river and imposing canyon. Romeo was the perfect guide with his sense of humour, while also ensuring that we enjoyed ourselves and were safe. He was ably assisted by Sheldon - Charles Webster
I have been on serval of this type of trip. The team were well organised at registration and gear issuing. The guides were great and very helpful throughout the trip. Overall it was great fun. You could do with more signage or directions on your welcome email while the building is going on. - John Hiscock
Excellent experience, made all the better by the enthusiasm and banter of Romeo and Norman - Bernard McCabe
Excellent - Keri-Ann McDonald
Nice stay and very exciting paddle tour in the gorge of storms river. Very friendly team and very good safety instructions. - Georg Born
Our AfriCanyon river adventure starts with registration, getting your wetsuit, kit and a quick briefing at basecamp. We then transfer you to the river entry point, a short drive in our vehicle and within minutes you are on your way. A brilliant combination of fun and adventure in the great outdoors!
Run the river with AfriCanyon, navigate through the river shallows, swim through natural tannin coloured fresh-water mountain pools, maneuver down water slides and abseil waterfalls as you dip down into the river gorge.
First timer, novice or seasoned at canyoning we’ve got your back. Under our professional guidance, using the latest spec adventure equipment your qualified guide ensures a kloofing adventure you simply can’t get enough of.
In fact we know you’re likely to want to do it again and again!
So Take the Gap, Feel the Rush.
CUSTOMERS – PLEASE ENSURE YOU GET TO THE AFRICANYON BASE 1 HOUR BEFORE YOUR SCHEDULED BOOKING FOR BRIEFING AND EQUIPMENT ISSUE / GEAR UP
CUSTOMERS – PLEASE ENSURE YOU GET TO THE AFRICANYON BASE 1 HOUR BEFORE YOUR SCHEDULED BOOKING FOR BRIEFING AND EQUIPMENT ISSUE / GEAR UP
2 Guides per trip.
All adventure, equipment. ie. Wet Suit, Harness, Helmet, Life jackets
Food and drink
NO Pregnant ladies allowed!
NB – GROUP SIZE – If your group size is greater than 10 people and you would like to do the activity together please contact the office and arrange for a special trip.
NB – ALL CUSTOMERS ARE TO PLEASE BRING A PAIR OF SHOES WITH THEM SUITABLE FOR SWIMMING AND FOR RIVER WALKING. If you do not have suitable shoes you can rent them from us at R90,00 / pair.
CUSTOMERS MUST ARRIVE 1 HOUR BEFORE THE BOOKING TIME FOR THE SAFETY BRIEFING AND EQUIPMENT ISSUE.
Great canyoning tour. I booked the longer 2,5 h group tour at 9 o'clock in the morning and also if I was the only person which was there the tour with two guids started. Puna and Darren are two top guids. Friendly, professionel, funny and they told you what is to do so it's also safe. It's a realy nice experience which I wouldn't like to miss. Also as there was a problem to get the pictures/link of the tour the support was very good. The only point which was a littlebit confusing were the different ranges of time (Tripadvisor 2h and 4h, Get our Guide 2h and 2,5 h). Probably the time of the tour depends more on the number of people in the group. - Christopher Schäfer
Nice Canyoning Tour by Tabzzzzz and Julien, they are the best guides! Always took care of every step that we did in the canyon and the safety in general. Nice mix of ziplining or even lowering down in die canyon on a rope. - Langer Mann
Great activity with Puna and Darren highly recommend fun and extremely safe. Thank u both love SA ?? and our canyoning abseiling and zip wire trip xx - Suzy and Richard
We had a very nice canyoning together with Warren and Darren. We also had a good talk, so we were able to learn more about some things that had occured in the canyon itself. We enjoyed it a lot! For me it was my second time already and I'm definitely considering to come back for a 3th time. See you! - Gilles Verroonen
We had a great afternoon with Africanyon. Warren and Darren were great instructors - they made us feel very safe whilst also maximising fun and enjoyment - Laura Hancox
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