Where the Cape stops being a city and becomes a coastline: whales in Walker Bay, the southernmost tip of Africa, and the lagoons and forests of the Garden Route.
Long days, early starts and some of the best driving in the country. All of them return to Cape Town the same evening.
Clarence Drive from Gordon's Bay, the Stony Point penguin colony at Betty's Bay, then Hermanus, its cliff path and, between June and November, the southern right whales in Walker Bay.
The drive through the Overberg wheatlands to Cape Agulhas, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans officially meet, with the lighthouse and Arniston's fishing cottages.
The West Coast National Park, the Langebaan lagoon and a long seafood lunch at an open-air restaurant on the beach. In August and September, the wildflowers.
Same vehicle, same driver, from Cape Town to Plettenberg Bay and back, or one way to George or Gqeberha for your onward flight.
Cape Town → Mossel Bay → Wilderness → Knysna → Plettenberg Bay and back: the Knysna Heads and lagoon, the forests, Wilderness beaches and the Map of Africa viewpoint.
Out along Route 62 through Montagu, Barrydale and Calitzdorp to Oudtshoorn, the Cango Caves and the Swartberg Pass, returning along the Garden Route coast.
The Garden Route with an elephant safari in Addo Elephant National Park at the end, finishing in Gqeberha for a flight home or driving back to Cape Town.
Tell us how many days you can spare and whether you are flying out of Cape Town, George or Gqeberha.
