Check out this awesome hidden secret on Table mountain called tranquility cracks.
Tranquility Cracks is a series of secret caverns and caves inside the Table Mountain National Park called the Tranquility Cracks, which a lot of people go in search of, but never find.
Tranquility Cracks refers directly to deep fissures in the rocks above Camps Bay through which one passes, about halfway along the Twelve Apostles. Beyond the cracks is a labyrinth of rocky corridors.
There are a number of passages to choose from, all of which offer incredible views. Inside the cracks grow yellowwood trees that have earned the hike the alternative title of Yellowwood Cracks. Here you are sheltered from any wind and sun.
Corridor Ravine is one of several paths that lead off the Pipe Track and is considered the easiest. It is the ravine after Slangolie (Slangolie is considered treacherous and not advisable to take), but has no marker of its own, so you need to keep your eyes peeled.
The track up Corridor Ravine, which actually is more of a valley between Corridor buttress and Verreaux Crag, is steep with loose stones and some slippery sections, so it can take you about an hour to reach the top. Numerous breaks will afford you views over the Atlantic and across to Lion's Head.
The top of the ravine is rocky but from the top you should see the backside of the Table with views of Muizenberg, Constantiaberg and the dams of the Orange Kloof forest. From the top you join a path that follows the spine of the Twelve Apostles, turning north towards Table Mountain. The path should take you straight to the cracks.
How long you spend here is dependent on how much you want to explore. It's a perfect place to stop and picnic and, if you are lucky, you will have the place to yourselves.
