Canine Camino

Canine Camino 🌿Canine Camino offers slackpack hiking adventures for you and your dog!Choose between the 🌊Ocean Camino in Hermanus or the ā›°ļøMountain Camino in Tesselaarsdal.

Enjoy off-leash fun, scenic trails, and pet-friendly stays for a memorable escape in nature 🐾

This is not a normal hiking week...You do not arrive, sleep in one place, drive out to a trail, come back, and repeat.Th...
17/06/2026

This is not a normal hiking week...

You do not arrive, sleep in one place, drive out to a trail, come back, and repeat.

The Tesselaarsdal Traverse is different.

You arrive in the valley.
You settle in.
You sleep over.
The next morning, you start walking.

From one stay to the next.
From farm to mountain.
From comfort to adventure and back to comfort again.

Your luggage, dog beds and overnight bags are moved ahead.

You carry only what you need for the day.

Your dog walks beside you.

And each evening, a new overnight stop is waiting.

Food.
Firelight.
Proper beds.
Quiet.
Space to breathe.

That is what makes it a Traverse.

Canine Camino: The Tesselaarsdal Traverse

Private. Dog-friendly. Guided. Slackpacked.

WhatsApp TRAVERSE for the private package options.

When the dogs approve of the view, you know you’ve chosen the right weekend away.The Barber’s Trail Lodge near Tesselaar...
17/06/2026

When the dogs approve of the view, you know you’ve chosen the right weekend away.

The Barber’s Trail Lodge near Tesselaarsdal is pet-friendly by prior arrangement and ideal for couples, friends or a small family wanting a quiet Overberg escape with their dogs.

The lodge sleeps 4 guests in 2 ensuite bedrooms and offers:

Wood-fired hot tub
Indoor fireplace
Off-grid solar
Mountain views
Peaceful farm setting
Hiking nearby

A luxury stay, without leaving your dogs behind.

WhatsApp Cindy for availability: 062 977 2054

Why Tesselaarsdal?Because this valley already knows how to hold a story.It has the farm roads.The private trails.The mou...
15/06/2026

Why Tesselaarsdal?

Because this valley already knows how to hold a story.

It has the farm roads.
The private trails.
The mountain lines.
The dogs.
The fires.
The quiet.
The kind of places where you arrive dusty and tired, and somehow feel completely at home.

That is what Canine Camino needed.

Not just another route.
Not just another weekend away.
A real journey from one place to the next.

The Tesselaarsdal Traverse is being designed as a private dog-friendly slackpacking experience through the Overberg mountains.

You arrive in the valley.
You walk across country.
Your luggage moves ahead.
Your dog walks with you.
Each night, a different stay waits.

This is not about rushing through kilometres.

It is about moving slowly through a place that deserves to be felt properly.

Canine Camino: The Tesselaarsdal Traverse Coming soon.

Comment TRAVERSE or send us a message if you’d like to be on the early interest list.

14/06/2026

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Canine Camino is coming home.For the past few years, Canine Camino has taken dogs and their humans onto beautiful trails...
12/06/2026

Canine Camino is coming home.

For the past few years, Canine Camino has taken dogs and their humans onto beautiful trails — but something has been sitting quietly in the background.

The real Camino was always here.

Here in Tesselaarsdal.
Here in the valley we know.
Here between the farms, the mountains, the private trails, the dogs, the fireplaces, the old roads, the quiet stays and the people who make this place what it is.

So we’re changing direction.

Not away from Canine Camino — deeper into it.

We’re building something more personal, more rooted, and more true to the idea of a Camino:

A journey where you move from one overnight stay to the next.
Where your luggage is transferred ahead.
Where your dog walks beside you.
Where dinner waits at the end of the day.
Where the mountains are not just the backdrop — they are the reason.

Introducing soon:

Canine Camino: The Tesselaarsdal Traverse

A private dog-friendly slackpacking journey through the Overberg mountains.

One private group at a time.
Dogs included.
Comfort included.
The valley included.

This is the Camino we were always meant to create.

This is what a dog-friendly weekend should look like.Open water, mountain air, quiet views, and your dogs right there wi...
10/06/2026

This is what a dog-friendly weekend should look like.

Open water, mountain air, quiet views, and your dogs right there with you.

The Barber’s Trail Lodge is a private pet-friendly mountain lodge near Tesselaarsdal, set in a peaceful farm setting with hiking nearby and beautiful views from the deck.

After a day outside, settle in with the wood-fired hot tub, indoor fireplace and the comfort of a luxury two-bedroom lodge.

Pet-friendly by prior arrangement.

WhatsApp Cindy for bookings: 062 977 2054

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Grotto Beach
Hermanus
7200

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