Trekking literally, it means "march". This word, that it only entered in the English vocabulary in the passed century, it is the result of the fight of the first colonists who had arrived at current come Africa of the South of Holland, of France and Germany, the calls bôeres, against the English that had invaded the region in 1806. The British had won the war and, in 1836, thousands of bôeres had decided to leave the city of the handle and to got inside the country in search of freedom and new chances. This exodus was known as “Great Trek” or “Great March”. Since then, trekking entered in the daily one of the country until if transforming into the national sport.