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Best Places to Stay on the Garden Route
Time to start planning your next Garden Route adventure! Known as "God's Own Country" by those who live here, the Garden Route attracts visitors from around the world and all of South Africa. And once you've been, you will understand why. One of the regions...
Everything You Need to Know to Experience the Garden Route Properly
The Garden Route, for the uninitiated, is not a self-drive circuit linking cultivated gardens for the horticulturally inclined. Rather, it’s a one-of-a-kind journey along a coastline where mountains crowd a shoreline punctuated with a myriad beaches, lakes an...
A Guide to the Major Lakes of South Africa – including Some You Won’t Know
When one thinks of South Africa one imagines the vast plains of the bushveld, the vines of the Cape Winelands, wave-washed towns and Table Mountain. Some visitors come for the country’s deserts. Major lakes of South Africa rarely spring to mind. But South A...
Garden Route Small Towns – We explore the Best
These Garden Route small towns are some of the most popular towns in South Africa. It isn't difficult to imagine why they're often busy. The self-drive Garden Route is high on most visitors must-see lists when they arrive in South Africa. The route stret...
Garden Route Tented Camps Perfect for a Glamping weekend
Garden Route tented camps bring to mind generous mosquito nets, heavy canvas flaps opening out onto the savannah, and colonial-style Big 5 viewing with sundowners in the bush. Not to be confused with camping holidays where caravans, ground cloths, and tent ...
The 5 Best Chilled Garden Route Places to Stay
The Garden Route - a 200 km journey of remarkable natural beauty - is South Africa's favourite destination, second only to the Kruger National Park. It's been listed by various magazines and websites as one of the world's best road trips. And it's not diff...
Top Ten Natural Attractions in the Garden Route
The Garden Route is a coastal corridor between the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma Mountains - that divide the Garden Route from the Little Karoo - and the Indian Ocean so richly endowed in natural beauty that one is hard pushed to narrow a list down to a mere 10 at...
South Africa’s 8 Most Beautiful Vleis and Marshes
Over half of South Africa's marshes and vleis have disappeared. Most of them reclaimed for industry and the construction of airports, harbours, and sewage treatment plants. In KwaZulu Natal alone 58% of the wetlands of the Mfolozi River catchment have vanished...
Garden Route Day Walks – we select the best
One cannot ooh and aah enough about the Garden Route. It is not likened to the Garden of Eden for nothing and its entire coastline is riddled with picture-postcard moments, wild, craggy beaches, forests, streams, waterfalls and a wilderness that, despite the a...
I Love Wilderness because …
Hi, I’m John McIldowie from Wilderness in the Garden Route. WILDERNESS IS BEST KNOW FOR its long golden beach, extensive lakes, waterways and lush indigenous forests. That combined with casual continental sidewalk restaurants and a village atmosphere makes ...