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  Garden Route Accommodation | Garden Route Hotels | Garden Route Accommodation and Hotel Accommodation Guide, South ...
The delightful town of George, known as "The Gateway to the Garden Route", graces a coastal plateau in a fertile area of lush greenery at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains.
The Garden Route stretches on the southern coast from Heidelberg to the Tsitsikamma Forest and Storms River.
Wilderness Accommodation: Turaco Country House is situated in the heart of the Garden Route, on a hill above the seaside village of Wilderness, on 10 hectares of private...
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 Garden Route, South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Inland, the Little Karoo and Route 62, which have no pretensions to being the Garden Route, are often treated as the same destination, as it's pretty easy zigzag between them by driving the many scenic passes over the Outeniqua Mountains.
Initially the Garden Route was seen as very much a beach and/or family holiday destination, which it is, but there is also so much to do.
The Garden Route offers some of the best boat based whale watching in the world, flower lovers and birders will also have a field day traipsing off through the forest or the fynbos, and there are numerous national parks and nature reserves.
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 Cape Garden Route, Mossel Bay, South Africa - Information on Garden Route
Yes, we understand that the name suggests the presence of beautiful, man-made gardens, and yes, there are fine, man-made gardens on the Cape’s southern coast – the area we call the Garden Route.
A region where the climate is warm and the days are sunny and usually wind-free (incredibly, the Garden Route receives most of its rain during the night!).
The Garden Route is an important part of the Cape Floral Kingdom - the smallest of the world’s six floral kingdoms and the only floral kingdom that is completely confined within the borders of a single country.
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 Garden Route | RhinoAfrica.com
The Garden Route is a very scenic area, from the deserts of the Karoo, to pretty seaside towns and white sandy beaches.
The Coastal Route runs from Mossel Bay to Port Elizabeth (PE) and is the most traditional of the Garden Route journeys.
Route 62 and the beautiful Garden Route at a meandering pace, make the perfect addition to any other African destination This 7 day self-drive tour gives you plenty of time to enjoy the sights and sounds.
www.rhinoafrica.com /destinations/garden_route   (485 words)

  
 Garden Route - South Africa Coastal Holidays
The Garden Route region runs along a scenic stretch of coastline beginning in Cape Town and ending in Port Elizabeth, a small coastal city on South Africa's south east coast.
Highlights of the Garden Route include the Wilderness coastal stretch, the whale watchers paradise of Hermanus, Knysna's lagoon and forest-based activities, as well as Plettenberg Bay, a location that combines some of South Africa's best swimming beaches with beautiful forest and indigenous vegetation.
The Garden Route is a popular venue for all sorts of fun events, from marathons to oyster festivals and cycle tours to cultural events.
www.go2africa.com /top_destinations/garden_route.asp   (561 words)

  
 Cape Rainbow Tours... - The Cape and Garden Route specialists
The Garden Route in South Africa is a must see experience, with it's varying natural beauty as the route meanders along the South Eastern coastline.
En route to Port Elizabeth visit the Addo Elephant Park, proclaimed in 1931 to save the last survivors of the once numerous herds of Eastern Cape elephants who are now thought to be extinct in South Africa.
The Garden Route's Addo Elephant Park is the home to the densest population of elephants in the world who share 12 000 hectares of gently undulating valley bushveld with jackal, warthog, suricate, buffalo, and a variety of antelope as well as lion, kudu, hartebeest and bushbuck.
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 Garden Route South Africa / The Garden Route Travel Guide
Storms River, the Garden Route runs parallel to a coastline featuring lakes, mountains, tall indigenous forests, amber -coloured rivers and golden beaches.
Garden Route", graces a coastal plateau in a fertile area of lush greenery at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains.
The Garden Route is one of the richest rainfall regions in South Africa.
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 Garden Route Accommodation
The Garden Route and Klein Karoo is one of the most beautiful and popular travel destinations in Southern Africa.
Along this stunning coast the Garden Route displays steep rocky cliffs alternating with white sandy beaches and dense evergreen mountain rain forests.
Plettenberg Bay is the crown jewel of the Garden Route.
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 Garden Route travel guide - Wikitravel
The Garden Route in the Western Cape is one of South Africa's main tourist attractions and is generally thought to stretch from Mossel Bay and Port Elizabeth along the Indian ocean and also includes parts of the inland.
The central part of the Garden Route is formed by the coastline of the Indian ocean.
The Garden Route is easily reached from Cape Town in the West and Port Elizabeth in the East.
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 Garden Route Accommodation - South Africa Accommodation in Garden Route
The Garden Route is a popular and scenic stretch of the southern coast of South Africa.
We are an ideal centre for exploring the Garden Route with all it's spectacular beauty of mountain, forest, lake and sea.
- (Wilderness Accommodation) - Turaco Country House is situated in the heart of the Garden Route, on the mountain overlooking the seaside village of Wilderness, on a 10 hectare private estate only 2km from the beach, in a most beautiful and tranquil setting with magnificent sea and mountain views.
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The region is a mosaic of silent, mysterious forests, sweeping lakes and wetlands, empty, unspoilt beaches and narrow winding passes that lies between Heidelberg in the west and Storms River in the east.
The Garden Route of South Africa is well known for it’s spectacular scenic beauty and mild equable climate throughout the year.
The Cape´s Garden Route is a nature wonderland unlike any other part of the world.
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 Garden Route safaris, lodges and wildlife tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
South Africa's famous "Garden Route" is graced with dramatic mountains, golden beaches, pristine indigenous forests, beautiful lakes and meandering rivers.
The Garden Route is a scenically stunning, very green, segment of the coastal belt, extending from Slangriver at Heidelberg to the Tsitsikamma forest and Storms River.
The Garden Route is graced with dramatic mountains, golden beaches, pristine indigenous forests (near Wilderness, Knysna and Nature's Valley) with giant yellowood trees, beautiful lakes and meandering rivers.
www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/GardenRoute.html   (299 words)

  
 The Garden Route Botanical Garden and Southern Cape Herbarium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Garden Route Botanical Garden is located in George, the heart of the Garden Route and has become a conservation and environmental education hub for the Southern Cape of South Africa.
The Garden Route Botanical Garden and Southern Cape Herbarium, therefore, have a vital role to play nationally and globally in the conservation and study of what is as rich a diversity of plant life in this area, as anywhere else in the Cape Floral Kingdom.
In addition the garden's position at the heart of the Garden Route, an area of the country named after its fantastic flora and famous worldwide for the beauty of its natural environment, makes it ideally suited to this vital role.
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 Plettenberg Bay South Africa Plett
is perfectly positioned to give the visitor access to the world-famous beaches, forests and mountain ranges of the Garden route, Gervonne is a gateway to all the splendour this magnificent part of the world has to offer.
The Garden Route has a Mediterranean Maritime climate, with moderately hot summers, and mild to chilly winters.
It is one of the richest rainfall areas, most of which occurs in the winter months, brought by the humid sea-winds from the Indian ocean.
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 Garden Route Hotels: Garden Route Accommodation: South Africa Hotels... (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Garden Route is a region of beautiful coastline, lakes, mountains, rivers, indigenous forests and golden beaches situated along the east coast of South Africa.
Plettenberg Bay in the Garden Route is a tranquil town, characterised by unspoilt beaches, lagoons, rivers and forests.
The Garden Route is renowned for its spectacular scenery and safe family beaches, but is also becoming known for the big game viewing on the private game reserves.
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 Garden Route,Garden Route Hotels,Luxury Accommodation Garden Route,South Africa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Garden Route has some of the most significant tracts of indigenous forest in the country including giant yellowwood trees and many wildflowers as well as commercial plantations of eucalypt and pine.
This area is renowned for ostriches, which thrive in the dry and sunny climate; for wildflowers; and for the kloofs (ravines) and passes that cut through the mountains.
Although the Garden Route is unquestionably beautiful, it is also quite heavily (and sometimes tackily) developed.
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 Sedgefield / Garden Route Estates
Timber under tiles, this 3 bedroomed double story home is close to town set in a lush garden with a boatshed converted into a pub and braai area.
From the upstairs deck there are beautiful views of the lagoon, open plan lounge and diningroom with fireplace.
Pretty garden, paving and braai area with some views of dune and mountain.
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 Garden Route Accommodation | Accommodation Garden Route, 301 Accommodation Establishments in Garden Route   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tranquility Lodge is in the heart of the Garden Route.
On entering the lobby of one of the largest log structures in the Southern Hemisphere, exquisitely carved solid Yellowwood trunks tower upwards to the magnificent Scandinavian hammer trusses.
Only 3 ½ hours scenic drive from Cape Town on the Garden Route, this malaria free private game reserve is home to an abundance of animal and birdlife, including the BIG 5.
www.safarinow.com /destinations/garden-route/hub.aspx   (666 words)

  
 South Africa's 5 day eco walking trail for coastal hiking, canoeing & whale watching in the Garden Route.
The itinerary of Garden Route Trail has been compiled to provide a complete ecological activities experience of the region complemented with stimulating scenic vistas.
At the heart of the Garden Route, we are blessed with landscapes of forest, river, wetland, dune and beach between the Outeniqua Mountains and the Indian Ocean.
The route takes you through two nature reserves in the region.
www.gardenroutetrail.co.za   (375 words)

  
 Garden Route Accommodation, Albertinia Hotel, Garden Route Self Catering, Albertinia Hotel
Albertinia Hotel - The ideal Garden Route stopover between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
This charming and unique country hotel on the Garden Route was established in 1900 and has ever since built on an outstanding reputation for country hospitality at its best.
Albertinia itself is a small and tranquil town at the foot of the Langeberg mountain range on the Garden Route of South Africa.
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 Garden Route - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is one of the richest all-year-round rainfall areas in South Africa, most rain falling in the winter months, brought by the humid sea-winds from the Indian Ocean rising and releasing their precipitation along the high mountain ranges just inland of the coast.
The Route is sandwiched between the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma mountains and the Indian Ocean.
Various bays along the Garden Route are nurseries to the endangered Southern Right Whale which come there to calve in the winter and spring (July to December).
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 Garden Route Weddings..! Your ultimate wedding guide!!
The Garden Route on South Africa 's southern coast offers excellent venues for weddings from formal to barefoot on the beach, and honeymoon hideaways that are simply luxurious.
The scenic beauty of the Garden Route and the Klein Karoo makes it the ideal setting for that very special event in one's lifetime.
The Garden Route stretches from Stilbay in the south to Tsitsikama towards the Northeast and the Klein Karoo may be included as far as Oudtshoorn.
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 Mossel Bay - Garden Route   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth in the heart of the famous Garden Route, nestles the seaside town of Mossel Bay.
A bustling holiday resort in summer and the ideal retreat in winter, it is situated on a spectacular sunwashed peninsula embraced by the warm Indian Ocean.
But it's the fascinating history of Mossel Bay which grants the town its status as the historical capital of the Garden Route and one of the most significant towns in South Africa.
www.gardenroute.net /mby   (344 words)

  
 Worldwide Travel West Coast | South Africa | Garden Route - Knysna, Tsitsikamma, Cango Caves
The main town on the route is George, which is a bustling commercial centre with some good hotels making it a good central point from which to explore the coastal region.
Attractions along the Garden Route encompass a wide variety from historic sites to scenic vistas, and beaches to nature reserves.
The rather industrialised town of Mossel Bay, about 250 miles (400km) east of Cape Town, is traditionally regarded as the gateway to the Garden Route and is famed for being the spot where the first European set foot in South Africa.
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 Garden Route Tours - Garden Route Tours, Events, Real Estate, Restaurants, Garden Route Accommodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On 1922 the Railways and Harbours Board recommended the construction of a railway between George and Knysna, a distance of approximately 67 kilometers, at an estimated cost of 296 820 pounds.
The Garden Route runs along the Western Cape coast from George to Port Elizabeth, and is so called because of its perpetual lushness.
Its appeal is further enhanced by the ridge of folded mountains running along the coast, whose form and flow often resembles ocean waves.
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 Turaco Country House. Wilderness, Garden Route   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
South Africa » South Africa Accommodation » Garden Route » Garden Route Accommodation » Wilderness Accommodation »
Turaco country house is situated in the heart of the Garden Route and the perfect getaway from which to explore the beauty of the area.
Set on the mountain overlooking the seaside village of Wilderness on a 10 hectare private estate surrounded by indigenous bush and fynbos with magnificent sea and mountain views only 1km from the village and 2km from the beach.
www.gardenroute-venues.co.za /turaco   (120 words)

  
 Tata Garden Route. India's leading motor brand: Now in your area.
TATA Garden Route is an approved and signed-on Dealership to sell the complete range of Tata vehicles from Passenger Cars to Heavy Commercial Trucks and Busses, it is also the Main Dealership in the Southern Cape and Klein Karoo.
TATA Garden Route is situated in George with a Sales Office and Service Centre at Rand Street, George Industrial Area.
TATA Garden Route has another three Sub-Dealers that is appointed and approved by Tata Motors, in Oudtshoorn, Swellendam and Bredasdorp., these Sub-Dealers falls under the management of the Main Dealership concerning new sales as well as after sales service and warranty.
www.tatagardenroute.co.za   (272 words)

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