The Hike Route

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Johannesburg - Cape Town

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Following the celebration of WORLD AIDS DAY on December 1st, the Rotary AIDS Hike will kick-off from Jabavu clinic in the Soweto township of Johannesburg. The twenty-day charity hike will cover 2010 kilometres (1250 miles) across South Africa and will finish in Cape Town.

From Johannesburg, the Rotary AIDS Hike Team will walk in relay across the country - through the Karoo desert to the southern coast and then west through the historic Garden Route. The charity hike will finish on December 21st with a celebration at the Waterfront in Cape Town.

We chose the hike route and distance for its symbolic value. The hike will take us 2010 km in 20 days to highlight the tragic fact that there will be more than 20 million AIDS orphans by 2010.