Embark on a breathtaking journey along the Garden Route, a celebrated stretch of coastline known for its indigenous forests, pristine beaches, and diverse natural wonders.
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Where Two Oceans Feed One Coast
This series, The Garden Route's Green Heart, traces one of Africa's most celebrated coastal corridors through the Western Cape, unpacking the stories layered into its…
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Three Hundred Kilometers of Living Coastline
The Garden Route stretches exactly three hundred kilometers between two very different anchor points.
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Knysna's Cliffs Guard a Living Lagoon
The Knysna Heads are among the most treacherous maritime passages in southern Africa.
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Tsitsikamma's Thousand-Year-Old Forest Canopy
Some of the yellowwood trees in Tsitsikamma are over a thousand years old, their canopies so dense that the forest floor exists in near-permanent twilight.
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Five Lakes Linked by One River
The Wilderness lake system is one of the few estuarine lake complexes in South Africa, a chain of five interconnected lakes fed by the Touw River as it winds toward the…
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Feather Fortunes Beneath Ancient Stone
During the 1880s ostrich feather boom, a single plume could fetch more than its weight in gold, turning Oudtshoorn's farmers into overnight millionaires.
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Where Southern Rights Come to Calve
Between June and November, southern right whales enter Plettenberg Bay to calve and nurse their young, sometimes coming within two hundred meters of shore.
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Yellowwoods That Predate European Contact
Some of the Outeniqua Yellowwoods standing in the Garden Route's forests today were already centuries old when the first European ships rounded the Cape.
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