TOUR 13 Garden Route

RUST-EN VREUGDE

This is a beautiful waterfall situated approximately 60km from Oudtshoorn.
Take the opportunity to experience an easy walk to this very special place. The wild flowers and the water cascading for about 70m into a pool below making the effort very worth while.

UNIONDALE via LONG KLOOF

This is the second largest fruit-producing area in South Africa. Uniondale has a rather strange beginning. It was in 1856 that the owners of two portions of the same farm Rietvallei set out two townships named Hopedale and Lyon. The rivalry between the townships was finally settled in 1865 when the Dutch Reformed church, built a church in the centre of the township, and named the place Uniondale

UNIONDALE POORT MOUNTAINS to AVONTUUR

This is the terminus of the narrow-gauge railway known as the Apple Express which travels between Port Elizabeth and Avontuur.

PRINCE ALFRED’S PASS

This is one of the most spectacular passes in the country. Andrew Geddes Bain marked out the route in 1856 and his son, Thomas actually built it using 270 convicts. The pass was completed in 1867. This route is the longest road through the Knysna Forest

KNYSNA

It was at the end of the British Occupation in 1804 that George Rex (Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court and Advocate to the Crown) bought the farm Melkhoutkraal. To reach his farm necessitated a coach journey, which he undertook on a great scale in a coach bearing a coat of arms. The journey resembled a royal procession. Rumor spread that George Rex was the son of George III of England, but this has never been proven. He kept ostriches and silk worms, hunted elephants and cut timber, and most importantly he influenced the government to develop Knysna into a port.

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