🗺️ ROUTE 2
Cape Town → Garden Route → Port Elizabeth
A 4×4 self-drive journey linking 16 highlights from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. The GPS audio guide tells you the story of each place as you pass.
The journey
A road linking 16 stops
1Cape Town›2Hermanus›3Mossel Bay›4Wilderness›5George›6Knysna›7Featherbed Nature Reserve›8Plettenberg Bay›9Robberg Nature Reserve›10Tsitsikamma›11Storms River›12Bloukrans Bridge›13Tsitsikamma Toll Plaza›14Jeffreys Bay›15Addo Elephant National Park›16Port Elizabeth
Highlights
Stories along the way
Cape Town
Sarah Baartman — the Slave Lodge
Hermanus
The only job of its kind in the world — the whale crier
Mossel Bay
A letter in an old shoe — the world’s oldest ‘post box’
Wilderness
An African continent drawn by a river bend — a map made by chance
George
A forest village named after a king who never visited
Knysna
“I am the king’s hidden son” — the self-made legend of Knysna’s founder
Featherbed Nature Reserve
The cliffs that survived because there was no bridge
Plettenberg Bay
The hotel where you now watch whales once stood where whales were killed
Stories along the way
Read all the stories of this route before you go
We’ve written up the history, culture and nature commentary narrated by the GPS audio guide. Discover every story on this journey now.
Route 2: how to plan your trip
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