Lying a half-day’s drive from Cape Town, the Garden Route is celebrated as a natural wonderland that one could spend a lifetime exploring. The towns dotted along the route – Wilderness, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Nature’s Valley – have an unassuming charm that calls many visitors back. Life is slow here, just ask the surfers or local forest elephants, but there are large doses of natural drama, best found in one of the world’s largest bungee jumps, tubing down Storm’s River, kayaking up one of the many rivers or taking a cruise through the Knysna Heads.
Enjoy beautiful seascapes that contrast with the dense indigenous forests, well laid out walks, hikes, suspension bridges, boat trips and all from within the Storms River Mouth. Choose between the Loerie and Blue Duiker trails or hike to the pristine waterfall.
Treat yourself to the best experiences the Garden Route has to offer.
A unique eco-wilderness adventure in the magnificent Tsitsikamma indigenous rainforest. The first of its kind in Africa, traverse from one platform to another, along a steel cable suspended up to 30 meters above the forest floor. Led by experienced guides most platforms are located within giant Outeniqua Yellowwood trees and the scenery and birdlife is spectacular.
The Garden Route offers an impressive range of unbelievable things to do.
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