The Garden Route
The Garden Route is South Africa’s tourist destination #1, for national and international tourists. The tourist infrastructure is highly developed and you find loads of Bed&Breakfasts, backpacker hostels, camp and caravaning site and hostels of all gradings.
The Gardenroute stretches along the coastline from roughly Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and offers quite a lot of different highlights - amazing National Parks, stunning beaches and marine life. Even the World's highest bungee can be found here.
Bloukrans Bridge Bungee
Bloukrans is officially recognised by Guinness World Records as being the World’s Highest Commercial Bungy Jump at a whooping 216 m high!
Location: At the Tsitsikamma Forest Village Market, just 40km east of Plettenberg Bay along the N2 Highway.
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LINK: www.faceadrenalin.com
Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe
The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe is the last steam hauled scheduled passenger train operating in Southern Africa and runs daily (excepting Sunday) between George and Knysna. The route of the Choo-Tjoe is from George, via Victoria Bay, Wilderness, Sedgefield and Goukamma to Knysna.
LINK: www.onlinesources.co.za/chootjoe
also see the tra:guide getting around forum for up-to-date info about the damages caused by the floods in August 2006 and from where to where the train is currently running.
How to get around?
Take the
Baz Bus Cape Town <=> Port Elizabeth (One Way) or click here for a Route Planner if you travel by rental car - otherwise click here for links to bus services in South Africa.
Check the tra:guide accommodation forum for comments
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Inland – about 55km north of George, in the Karoo (but in a way still part of the Garden Route area), Oudtshoorn is the Ostrich Capital of the world – about 400 ostrich farms are surrounding the town. Three of them are “show farms” where you can touch, feed, ride and eat the biggest bird in the world
LINK: www.oudtshoorninfo.com
Cango Caves:
Breathakting limestone formations in a huge natural cave – great fun when join a guided tour through it.
LINK: www.cangocaves.co.za
Oudtshoorn, South Africa
thx to: angelesnovillo
“The place of much water” is one of South Africa's scenic highlights
stretches from Storms River Bridge to Nature’s Valley – 80km of rocky coastline
up to 180 high cliffs, ever green forests, fynbos (eg Proteas)
one of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world
quite a lot of cultural sites (Khoisan – caves, rock art etc; and more recent sites like small fisher settlements etc.)
LINK: www.sanparks.org/parks/tsitsikamma
Watch the official video stream of the Tsitsikamma NP
