Garden Route Guide: Overview, Hotels & Travel Writing

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Our Garden Route travel guide brings together a collection of featured boutique and luxury hotels in Garden Route along with a selection of the best travel writing, to help you decide where to go, what to do and how to get there.

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Hunter's Country House

"An elegant, one-of-a-kind country house on the Garden Route with smart thatched cottages dotted around lush gardens."

Price from: 3620.00 ZAR

Pezula Resort & Spa

"A large and luxurious luxury hotel and spa resort on the Knysna Heads - perfect for pampering."

Price from: 9388.00 ZAR

Bay Lodge

"An immaculately-designed boutique beach lodge with smart suites and a gorgeous outdoor pool."

Price from: 4300.00 ZAR

Articles About Garden Route

Favourite Hotels Outside Cape Town | Martin O'Brien | South Africa | Garden Route | Plettenberg Bay

"Set, gem-like, between the mountains and the sea, Cape Town is a spectacular city. You should also venture further afield: to taste the wines and the old Cape hospitality in the surrounding Wine Lands..."

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St Francis Bay: A Waterways Breakaway | Rosanne Turner | South Africa | Garden Route | Knysna

When friends invited us to join them for a few days in St Francis Bay, I must admit I was a bit in the dark about the area. St Francis Bay? Cape St Francis? Port St Francis?

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Plettenberg Bay: Pearl of the Cape | Daphne Beames | South Africa | Garden Route | Plettenberg Bay

Early Portuguese navigators gave us a word that translates as beautiful bay. It is

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Living with the Beasts | Chris du Plessis | South Africa | Garden Route

When the legendary late African conservationist Norman Carr first advanced the idea that wild animals and indigenous African communities share living space in designated game parks some decades ago, he probably didn’t think it would manifest in...

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