Graskop Gorge Lift Co in Mpumalanga has launched two new products, Cliff Café and Next-Level Walk.
The Cliff Café is a ‘café-in-the-forest’ accessed via the new Next-Level Walk, a no-harness walkway that winds along the cliff face. The walkway opens up previously inaccessible parts of the gorge’s upper walls, offering safe access to landscapes that were once only visible to climbers or drone cameras.
The Next-Level Walk and Cliff Café are accessed via the viewing elevator. When alighting at this level, visitors can choose to turn right to the Cliff Café, or go left and walk along the rock face, eventually descending via a series of stairways and walkways to join up with the Forest Trail a level below.
The interpretive Forest Trail, along raised walkways and suspension bridges, teaches visitors about the surrounding landscape.
When the Graskop Gorge Lift Co opened its scenic viewing lift in December 2017, it was the first of its kind in South Africa, transporting visitors down the face of a 51-metre cliff into an Afromontane forest world below.
Visitors can access the forest trail, Cliff Café and Mid-level Walk via 300 stairs while the lift is closed for maintenance from now until June 24. All other activities and restaurants will be open and the standard entrance fee still applies.
