It has been on the agenda for a while to find the start point along Crescent Drive in Westcliff and to navigate the many hundreds of stairs, which we did this morning and we did it twice.
Dog-walkers, serious runners, strollers and the Kersten's!
It was a cold winter morning, rather hazy too from the unseasonable rain so the legendary views were mostly obscured but I could get a sense of what it must be like on a clear day.
Reading the story of the stairs, they were carved by unemployed miners in 1922 from the base rock here in this quite beautiful Johannesburg suburb.
From Crescent Drive we crossed to Wexford Avenue and from there the stairs take you to Pallinghurst Drive. We then walked along Woolston Drive to the narrow road and stairs that took us back to Westcliff Drive.
Our glorious morning walk took us from Norwood, through Killarney, past the Jo'burg Zoo before getting to the Westcliff Stairs, we then continued along Jan Smuts to Park Cafe for loads of coffee and treats before heading home through Saxonwold.
- Walking log: 25th July
19.5km stamina walk with some serious cardio on the Westcliff Stairs.
Total kilometres to date: 1323.5
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| A Johannesburg treasure - the Westcliff Stairways |
