Click on the map cover for a sample of map style, with the features of the map highlighted.

"Your Wild Coast map: it's magnificent" -
Don Pinnock,
Editor of "Getaway"

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"Peter Slingsby's Wild Coast Map is like
Google Earth on steroids!!!"
– (Fiona McIntosh, OutThere Travel Magazine)

RECOMMENDED GOOGLE EARTHS
If you have broadband and Google Earth on your system, you MUST visit the following locations to learn more about the Wild Coast.
Copy and paste these numbers to the “Fly to” box, or type them in exactly as they are here, with minus sign and comma.

Collywobbles -32.009000, 28.570000
Zoom out to about 18km

Double Mouth campsite -32.723560, 28.314140
Where it really starts

Hole in the Wall -32.039500, 29.108400
Icon of the Wild Coast

Magwa Falls -31.446460, 29.638600
109 metre deep cleft

Mbotyi Lagoon -31.463830, 29.733400
Heaven on earth

Mfihlelo Waterfall -31.436460, 29.798570
One of only 5 “sea” falls in the world

Nongqawuse’s pools -32.660666, 28.396666
She sat here & had her evil visions

Port Grosvenor -31.376370, 29.905130 Wreck of the “Grosvenor” in 1787

The Wild Coast is a wilderness paradise, an astonishingly-unspoiled jewel atop South Africa’s many natural wonders. This is the first detailed map ever produced for the area; may it help you to discover the Wild Coast, and allow you, through your economic inputs, to help alleviate the desperate “poverty in paradise” that you may encounter there. When Gavin Stewart (retired editor of the Daily Dispatch and Prof of Journalism at Rhodes University) asked us to map the Wild Coast, we’d never been there before, nor did we have the faintest idea that the region so badly needed mapping. Although Gavin himself did most of the field-work for this map, we spent (too little!) high-quality time there ourselves.

INCREDIBLE WATERPROOF MAP!

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ISBN 978-1-919900-88-9

• A1-length, double-sided full-colour and FULLY WATERPROOF map in plastic sleeve
• This full-relief map covers, at a scale of 1:200 000, the great 300km sweep of the Transkei Wild Coast, from East London in the south to Port Edward in the north. From East London to Mthatha the map also covers the area from the coast to the N2, including the mighty Bawa Falls, the unbelievable Collywobbles, and the Mandela Museum at Qunu. Over one hundred lagoons thread this romantic coast, with its evocative names like Coffee Bay, Qholorha, Mbhashe, Mbotyi, Dwesa and The Haven, Mkambati, Mazeppa, Port St Johns and the Hole in the Wall. Legends abound, too, from the fabled wealth of the wrecked treasure-ship, the Grosvenor, to the dark and mysterious pools of the Gxara River where the young girl Nongqawuse had her fatal visions of warriors and cattle arising from the dead. With this map you can find where to touch a live African elephant at Inkwenkwezi, or gasp at the astonishing spectacle of mighty waterfalls falling directly into the sea. There are only five such waterfalls on our planet; three of them are on the Wild Coast.
• All roads from National Highways to minor gravel roads are shown, with distances. GPS coordinates are provided for every road-junction, while special landmarks are noted in a land where road-signs are few and far between. These landmarks include schools, clinics, stores, radio masts, etc etc. All known airstrips are also shown.
• All tourism accommodation establishments are shown, as well as the telephone numbers of the recommended members of the Wild Coast Holiday Association, and some selected others of note. A large range of facilities from hiking opportunities to horse riding, mountain biking, surfing etc etc is also included.
• Special features:
  in addition to the wealth of information detailed above, the map also includes nearly one hundred shipwrecks, many with brief notes about what happened there. For interest, the size of the catchments of the major rivers is also noted, as well as the heights of selected waterfalls. For your peace of mind all the police stations in the area are mapped, with their telephone numbers.

The map also includes four enlarged insets of Port St Johns, Coffee Bay, Kei Mouth and Morgan Bay, and the popular Jikeleza Route near East London. For safety’s sake there is also a detailed diagram of how to view the extraordinary, 109 metre-high Magwa Falls. Other insets tell you the main routes from the N2 to the resorts, the state of the roads and where to stay.

This is the first fully-comprehensive map of the Wild Coast ever published, and is the only detailed Tourist map of the area. Compiled from comprehensive field research and with the sound advice of more than a dozen local experts, it is an absolutely essential companion to any exploration of the area.

Many tourist maps available in South Africa are printed and produced overseas.
They are drawn by people who have never stepped on African soil, who would not know Cape Town from Calitzdorp or Nyanga from Knysna.
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