Garden Route South Africa Itinerary. Known as the garden route, the road trip gets its name from the garden route national park that it covers, and the diverse vegetation and wildlife, and abundance of lagoons, lakes, mountains, forests, and beaches along its winding roads. The route technically starts at mossel bay and runs to the storms river in the east;
After our amazing safari trip we flew from johannesburg to port elizabeth where we spent the night before setting off the next day along ‘the garden route’. Driving south africa’s garden route is one of the best ways to experience the natural beauty of that incredible country. It has forests, mountains, lagoons, grasslands, and deserts.
But for the purpose of this blog post, this itinerary will start in cape town and end in port elizabeth.
Along the southern coast of south africa, nearly as close to antarctica as you can get with a car runs a 300km stretch of road known as the garden route. The garden route, a popular road trip destination in south africa, is often considered one of the most beautiful road trips in the world. But for the purpose of this blog post, this itinerary will start in cape town and end in port elizabeth. In some ways, the garden route is a condensed version of south africa: