Garden Route & Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is full of surprising contrasts. One day’s drive will take in sophisticated fine arts, gourmet dining, and a superb, rugged, unspoiled seascape. The forever landscape to the east of Cape Town, reaching all the way to the Wild Coast and deep inland, is an amazing treasury of all kinds of good things and places.
Can't Be Missed - Garden Route
- Take the adventurous canopy tour in the Tsitsikamma forest, riding high on cables among the treetops.
- Gorge yourself on oysters at Knysna’s annual ten-day Oyster Festival, held in July.
- Don’t miss the goldsmiths, painters, potters and antiques merchants on Plettenberg Bay’s arts and crafts route.
- See the marvellous, multi-coloured stalactites and stalagmites in the Cango Caves.
- Bask on one of Port Elizabeth’s wide, sunny beaches, then stroll along the long and impressive promenade.
- Take a sunset champagne cruise from Mossel Bay to Seal Island.
Can't Be Missed - Eastern Cape
- Stroll around the unique Owl House with its strangely attractive cement statues of women, animals and birds, including dozens of owls,
- Look, from a hilltop, over the Valley of Desolation, towering dolomite columns exposed by millions of years of erosion.
- Stand in awe in Nelson Mandela’s humble childhood home, and a museum dedicated to his life.
- In the East London Museum, see the coelacanth, caught nearby in 1938, when this deep-sea fish was thought to have been extinct for about 80 million years.
- Take a stroll or a horse ride along the pristine beaches of the Wild Coast.
