South Africa

Easy Riding on a Harley on the Garden Route and Route 62: The most beautiful tour of the Cape, between nature and colonial idyll and the metropolitan Cape Town!

Experiences such as the Overberg region, the meeting of the oceans on Agulhaskap, Oudtshoorn and its ostrich farms, the Addo Elephant National Park with the Big Five, Knysna and Paradise and wine tasting in Stellenbosch!

What more can dream up on the backs of Harleys?

 
Here we go!
Cape Town - Cape of Good Hope - Sinmon's Town - Chapman's Peak - Arniston - Swellendam - Oudtshoorn - Klein Karoo - Graaff-Reinet

 

One of the most paradisiacal and windiest stretches at the beginning: after Einegwöhnen on driving on the left it goes to a delicious meal in the Gold Restaurant to the Cape of Good Hope, on Camps Bay, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak Drive, Scarborough, Cape Point, Ou Kaapse way to Simon's Town where we can see penguins.

Continue along the coast of Gordon's Bay, Claren's Drive, Hermanus, Stanford to Cape Agulhas (from here it's asphalt-free until you reach your needle or Agulhaskap the southernmost point of Africa, this is part of the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. The place is charming, with its cliffs, underwater reefs, but not for the English colonial shipping One of the wrecked ship, the Arniston - on the way back towards homeland of India coming, is also named after our next stop: Arniston.

Arniston is, like Hermanus, a whaling town - we can observe from the beach! After it goes through Bredasdorp Arniston, Stormsvlei, Swellendam and Ashton to Montague. This gem, formerly Agter Cogman's Kloof, is a colonial town in the middle of the 19th Century. The Oasental in which it is located, was initially not fully understood, but thanks to Thomas Baine, an engineer, in 1877 a better fit and a road tunnel was built. Traces of the Boer War to the early 20th Century can be found here: for example, the British fort that directly depends on the gorge.

Montague made more passes in the moist fertile mountains to explore, continue along Route 62, we can Barrydale and Calitzdorp Ladiesmith are left and go up to Oudtshoorn. Here at Ronnie's Sex Shop snapped, before continuing on to an ostrich breeding farm. Who wants to ride can eat here and buy a few souvenirs.

Next it goes into the Little Karoo, on gravelly slopes down to the hostorische Buren village of Graaf-Reinet, where are we in Camdeboo Natinalpark, in the Valley of Desolation, the sun behind the hills sink sandstone look and see the mountain eagle in the hunt.

 
The Big Five!
Addo Elephant National Park - Knysna - Mossel Bay - Cape Town

 

And now we have very briefly for the elephants, the bikes are available and switch to mini, because, thanks to the Addo Elephant National Park, founded in 1931 exist today in South Africa's Cape region at all the Big Five! Because almost the settlers were in the 19 Century, the elephant extinct. To protect the dozen surviving yet been fed to the elephants fremdelnden oranges, with the result that the elephants are now addicted. Therefore, neither grapefruits, lemons, oranges or oranges are allowed in the park - unless we want to risk running that are destroying the elephant safari our car!

In addition to the huge population of elephants, we will also see buffalo, zebras, antelopes, lions and hyenas. The comprehensive 164000ha Park has in store for us, a pool and a delicious meal from the campfire, in addition to various game drives.

Then we continue along the Garden Route to Port Elizabeth and on the asphalt-free Prince Alfred Pass to Knysna, the most popular resort on the Cape Why? The situation in the Outeniquabergen, between the Knysna Lagoon, an estuary of the Knysna Heads (rock formations) is terrific and offers many outdoor activities right in the Garden of Eden - biking, kayaking, Kanooing, bungee jumping, etc. Then turn we to return slowly and continue along Mossel Bay on the Garden Route and Langenberg to Montague.

 
Marsh and mountain Pistenpur!
Stellenbosch - False Bay - Cape Point - Cape Town

 

Continue on gravelly slopes to the whaling town of Hermanus and then further into False Bay. Here we take one of the schösnten slopes of South Africa under the wheels, to Stellenbosch, the second oldest city in the country. Founded in 1680 by Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of the Cape, it lies at the Eerste Rivier. Here we are in the middle of Weinladn also visit one of the oldest cellar and make a tasting.

Now the journey is brought down to an end soon, even a trip to the Cape of Good Hope, the Chapman's Peak Drive to Cape Town. We ventilate out in the windy city on the stormy Cape, before we put a full biker back in the plane to Europe!