Garden Route
The Garden Route in the Western Cape is one of South Africa's main tourist attractions and is generally considered to stretch from Mossel Bay to Storms River along the Indian ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include George and Mossel Bay.
George
George is in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. It is the main gateway to the beautiful Garden Route.
Mossel Bay
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Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 170,000 people on the Garden Route of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province.
Knysna
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Knysna, pearl of the scenic Garden Route, sits between George and Plettenberg Bay. Perennially green thanks to a Mediterranean Maritime climate with rain falling throughout the year, Knysna is mantled by indigenous forests extending into the Tsitsikamma National Park area.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Wilderness and Plettenberg Bay.
Wilderness
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Wilderness is a coastal village situated in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is set between the Kaaimans River and the Goukama Nature Reserve in the heart of the Garden Route, bordered by the Outeniqua Mountains and swept by the Indian Ocean.
Plettenberg Bay
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Plettenberg Bay is a small coastal resort in South Africa's Western Cape. It's a good stop off point for the Garden Route if you're looking to be closer to the beach than nearby Knysna.
Tsitsikamma National Park
The Tsitsikamma National Park, a section of the Garden Route National Park, is situated in the heart of the famous Garden Route in South Africa. The park offers some fine coastal scenery and sometimes the option of whale-watching.
Storms River
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Storms River is a small village in the Eastern Cape on the Garden Route surrounded by pine plantations along the N2. It is the gateway to the Tsitsikamma National Park.
Nature’s Valley
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Nature's Valley is a small village on the Garden Route along the southern Cape coast of South Africa, tucked between the Soutrivier, the foothills of the Tsitsikamma Mountains, the Indian Ocean and the Grootrivier lagoon.
Wilderness National Park
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Wilderness National Park, also called the Wilderness Section, is located around the seaside town of Wilderness between the larger towns of George and Knysna, in the Western Cape.
Garden Route
- Type: road
- Description: coastal region in southern South Africa
- Location: Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-34.01° or 34° 0′ 36″ southLongitude of center
22.01° or 22° 0′ 36″ eastWikidata ID
Q1402191
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Garden Route” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tuinroete”
- Arabic: “غاردن رووت”
- Chinese: “花园大道”
- Danish: “Garden Route”
- Dutch: “Tuinroute”
- French: “Garden Route”
- French: “Route des Jardins”
- German: “Garden Route”
- Hebrew: “דרך הגנים”
- Italian: “Garden Route”
- Italian: “Strada dei Giardini”
- Japanese: “ガーデン・ルート”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Garden Route”
- Norwegian: “Garden Route”
- Portuguese: “Rota Jardim”
- Russian: “Садовый маршрут”
- Sinhala: “ගාර්ඩන් රූට්”
- Swedish: “Garden Route”
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