Garden Route - Route 62 Roadtrip

We started our roadtrip around the garden route in Capetown. We picked up our car at "rent a cheapy" rental and got an iced coffe from our favourite coffee place "courage mobile bar".

Our first stop on the way was Kogel Bay. We really liked that beach, it was beautiful and huge! But you need to be really careful there with all the baboons (big monkeys). Tip: check out high & low tide!

Our next stop was Betty's bay! It's a huge, beautiful beach again and close to the beach lives a penguin colony. Unlike Boulders beach in Cape Town, you can visit these penguins for free.

After 45min we reached our beautiful guesthouse in Hermanus! It was such a cute place & I can highly recommend it!

After checking in we went to the Cliff path walk. It's a beautiful trail along the coast, with several beaches on the way. If you're lucky you can even see whales!

For dinner we went to an amazing restaurant! After dinner we watched the beautiful sunset from a place near the restaurant.

The next morning the roadtrip continued (2hours) to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa! Here meet the Atlantic and Indian Ocean !

There is also a lighthouse and a shipwreck there, you can walk between the spots, it's not far.

On our way to Mossel Bay we found this cute farm shop on the road and bought some snacks!

Around 2 hours later we arrived at our amazing airbnb, called "Affordable private cottage hartenbos" in a beautiful area of Mossel bay. Then we went food shopping to prepare our dinner.

Then we had a bbq (in south africa they call it "braai") on our terrace and enjoyed the sunset!

The next morning we went to the town of Mossel Bay. Mossel bay is the official starting point of the Garden route!

Then we started the St. Blaize hiking trail, a hike which takes 6 hours in total, but we only walked a part of it.

For lunch we found a nice and affordable restaurant, directly on the beach of Mossel bay.

On our way we found this cool coffee place! The coffee was really good and the vibe was great, I can really recommend to stop here!

The we drove about 1 hour to our next place, which was a beautiful small hotel in Wilderness. We loved this place!

The next day we started to explore Wilderness. A famous spot is the Kaimaan river & the Kaimaan bridge. It's also possible to rent a kayak there, really cool!

Our next stop was the famous "Map of africa" viewpoint.

Next to the viewpoint we found this cool coffee spot! We had a great view over the wilderness nature there as well!

Then we went back to the town of Wilderness and found a really nice restaurant for lunch. It's also great to walk around this lovely area and enjoy the beautiful views and pretty houses.

When you pass Wilderness you'll find many beautiful & endless beaches. It's also often possible to go paragliding there.

Our next stop was Thesen island! We booked an airbnb for the night, it's called "Studio & 2 tides" and was so dreamy! The only problem is that it's really tricky to get in, since Thesen island is a guided area there was a lot of paperwork, fingerprints,... we had to do to get into this area.

Thesen island is a guided area close to Knysna. People live in beautiful houses around the islands, which are conntected through bridges.

The next morning we left Thesen island and stopped at Knysna waterfront for a short walk around the area.

The next stop on our roadtrip was Plettenberg bay! On our way we stopped at a place, where we did a small hike. It was called "Garden of Eden". If you don't have the wild card I wouldn't recommend it, since it's too expensive.

Then we arrived in our beautiful airbnb in Plettenberg bay "Place on Pladda", which we booked for two nights. In the evening we went to the supermarket and had an amazing braai dinner on our terrace!

The next day we visited the famous "Robberg nature reserve" in Plettenberg bay, where we did a hike with stunning views! There are several hikes you can do.

Then we found our favourite food place ever! It was a lovely farm restaurant next to the road, which had amazing & affordable food and also lots of cute animals!

The next morning we went to the beautiful Tsitsikamma nationalpark. There we did the mouth trail, on this hike you can find the famous supsension bridges.

Aftrr that we went to Jeffreys Bay, where we checked into our nice Airbnb "Pauline's place".

In Jeffreys bay we found a great mexican restaurant!

After that we explored the cool surfer town with it's huge beach.

The next day it was finally time to move inland. A few miles behind Jeffreys bay you'll find the city "Port Elizabeth", which marks the end of the Garden route. We skipped this city, because there's nothing really interesting to do.

We went to a supermarket to buy some food for the next days and then we arrived at our amazing accomodation! It was in the middle of nowhere and we could watch wild animals from our room! We even had a delicious braai in the evening. The next morning we planned to get up early to visit the famous "addo elephant park".

The entire next day we spent at addo nationalpark. Here you can drive through just like in the Kruger National Park with your own car or book game drives. We saw a lot of different animals!

The next day we continued our journey on the route 62! The Route 62 leads from Port E. to Cape Town (about 850km). It's the alternative route to the Garden route.

It took us 5 hours to reach Oudtshoorn!

Oudtshoorn is known for its Ostrich farms, so we stopped at one. 🤩😅 These animals are so cool! Unfortunately we had no time to do a tour, but I heard they are great!

In the evening we found a really cool place for dinner, they even had parrots there which talked to us while we were eating. After our stay in Oudtshoorn we drove back to Capetown. We had the most amazing roadtrip!