The Garden Route spans two of South Africa’s most beautiful provinces, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape.

Holding ten nature reserves, the Garden Route municipalities value the preservation of South Africa’s natural wonders. A great attraction for visitors to the area are the marine reserves that act as nurseries to dolphins and the endangered Southern Right Whale.

The Outeniqua Mountain range extends through the beginning of the area and offers a range of popular hikes through fynbos covered hills and dense forests or pine plantations. It’s a place for visitors to exercise their need for nature. Esteemed golf courses attract the more affluent visitors and mountain cabins or pop-up markets have helped cause artists to call the Garden Route “home”.

From rolling farmlands, to fynbos covered mountains, to indigenous forests and busy wetlands, the Garden Route’s diverse and intense vegetation boasts striking landscapes and coastlines. In fact, that is just what it’s named after. It is South Africa’s “garden”.