The Pipe Track Trail
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"This walk starts at the junction of Tafelberg Road and Kloof Nek. The Pipe Track is precisely what it says: a path constructed to service a pipeline running below the series of peaks known as the Twelve Apostles. This pipeline was built to carry water from Disa Gorge in Table Mountain’s Back Table, via the Woodhead Tunnel through the mountain in Slangolie Ravine, to the Molteno Reservoir in Oranjezicht to help slake the thirst of the booming, late 19th century Cape Town.
In several places, the path is very stony, but it is an easily accessible and popular walk, with many locals making regular use of certain sections; it is part of the Atlantic seaboard way of life."
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"This is the old pipe track for the water line in Cape Town and now people – tourists and locals alike – go on this trail to walk, jog, or bike! The views on this trail are beautiful - the trees on the tale mountain side and the beach to the other. So if you can, get up a little earlier than usual to go on this trail."
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