National park
Newlands Forest
Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Town, 0001
Shaded slope of indigenous ravine forest and pine plantation on Table Mountain's eastern face, laced with walking trails.
This guide to Newlands Forest in Cape Town follows Lady Anne Barnard, who in 1797 moved into a stone cottage on this Table Mountain slope, built for a Dutch East India Company logging post, and renamed it in her diary. It covers the Company's guarded timber trade here, the master woodcutter posted to the cottage, and the garrison stationed to watch over valuable wood. You'll also hear about her unconventional marriage and the letters that made the name stick. Best walked slowly along the shaded ravine trail.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.