The Garden Route Photo 24

The Garden Route

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August 5th 2012
We left Oudtshoorn quite early and drove back towards the N2 and on towards the beginning of the Garden Route. The Garden Route is a coastal stretch on the Western Cape that is very popular with tourists. There are some beautiful inland forests, amazing coastlines and some attractive beach towns. As we came down from Outdshoorn, towards Paarl, there was some more spectacular scenery, similar to wh ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more