TOUR 13 Garden Route
RUST-EN VREUGDE
UNIONDALE via LONG KLOOF
UNIONDALE POORT MOUNTAINS to 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
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.