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14 Day Garden Route Tour

South Africa | Lesotho

Ride the Drakensberg and Lesotho Mountains in the north east of South Africa and

then head south to ride the world famous Garden Route with its beautiful mountain

passes, evergreen forests and coastal vistas ALL THE WAY to Cape Town.

Map of 12 Day Self Guided Garden Route Tour

Starting in Pretoria, South Africa you make your way to the Mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho. Here you will ride to Katse Dam- a ride with more turns within 80 km than any other road in Africa.

Next up you head back into South Africa again and ride through Golden Gate National Park and the mighty Drakensberg Mountains to Himeville

You reach the Indian Ocean at East London and then enjoy a world class safari into Addo Elephant National Park- spotting Lions, Elephants, Rhino, leopard and Buffalo.

You are now in the famous Garden Route and will spend the next

several days riding beautiful mountain passes, forest meanders and desert roads. Enjoy a night at the mighty Storms River Mouth, ride to the Knsyna Heads, and visit Ostriches in Oudtshoorn.

Next up the ride takes you all the way to the Southern Most Point of Africa at Cape Agulhas before riding 0ver 200km of amazing coastal roads all the way into Cape Town.

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12 Day Garden Route Tour- “At a Glance" and Itinerary

TOUR INFO AT A GLANCE

DATES

• Self Guided tour- Choose any date you like

START DESTINATION: Pretoria, South Africa- fly into Johannesburg

END DESTINATION: Cape Town, South Africa

MILEAGE

+-3450km

DAILY DISTANCE

200- 550 km (Avg of 300km)

REST DAYS: Rest Day, 10 Riding Days

COUNTRIES VISITED: South Africa, Lesotho

ROAD SURFACE

99% Tar, off-road options (Hard Packed Gravel)

DIFFICULTY: Easy

PETROL For your own account

DAY TOUR ITINERARY

1 Pretoria to Clarens

2 Clarens- Lesotho – Clarens

3 Clarens-to Underberg

4 Underberg to East London

5 East London to Addo Elephant Park

6 Rest Day Addo

7 Addo to Tsitsikamma

8 Tsitsikamma- Knsyna- Oudtshoorn

9 Rest Day Oudtshoorn with option Rides

10 Oudtshoorn to Cape Agulhas- Hermanus

11 Hermanus- Cape Point – Cape Town

12 End of Tour





Day 1: Pretoria To Clarens +- 400km

Highlights: Historic Motorcycle Museum, Golden

Sandstone Cliffs

After a delicious breakfast you make your way

through South Africa's Orange countryside to

Clarens. This is a delightful ride. You may wish to

stop in at the beautiful town of Deneysville on

the banks of the Orange River to see the

historical motorcycle museum. After lunch, you

ride through South Africa's very own Bethlehem,

arriving in Clarens in the late afternoon. Clarens

its famous for its GOLDEN Sandstone cliffs.

Clarens has its own brewery with free beer

tasting- a good way to celebrate the end of a

great first days ride!

Golden Sandstone cliffs

Day 2: Clarens- Lesotho- Clarens (+- 412km)

Highlights: Lesotho Mountain passes, Katze Dam

On this day YOU will experience a very exciting

ride to Katze Dam in Lesotho. After an early start,

you enter the Lesotho border and make your way

towards Katze Dam (a huge man made dam that

forms part of the Highlands water project which

supplies water to South Africa in times of

drought) The road to the dam has more turns

within 80km than any other road in Africa. A

motorcycle riders' dream.The condition of the

road is excellent with very little traffic. The Katze

Dam is truly eye opening! After lunch you can

return along the same road arriving back at the

hotel in the late afternoon.

Sharp Curves- Lesotho

Day 3: Clarens to Underberg (+-435km)

Highlights: Majestic Drakensberg, Golden Gate

National Park

Today’s ride is unbelievably scenic. You ride down

through the Golden Gate National Park. This park

is made up of sandstone cliffs, with scenic rocks

and other interesting land formations. Watch out

for Antelope and Vervet monkeys crossing the

road- you’re in the wild here! Your day is spent

riding through the majestic Drakensberg

Mountains and you should arrive in Underberg in

the early afternoon.

Riding in the Drakensberg Mountains.

Day 4: Underberg to East London (+-

540km) Highlights: Relaxing Ride

Today is a relaxing ride through the foothills of

the Drakensberg mountains. In the late

Afternoon, you will arrive in East London- a small

city situated on the Indian Ocean. Tonight you

sleep on the beautiful beach in Chintsa- one of

South Africa's most popular holiday resort towns.





Some Baboons just chilling in the Road

Day 5: East London to Addo Elephant

National Park (+- 247 km)

Highlights: Wildlife @Addo Elephant

Today you make your way through the rolling hills

of the Eastern Cape, to Addo Elephant National

Park- home to Africa's famous BIG 5. Later you

will embark on a sunset game drive in an open

safari vehicle. Addo is famous for its large herds

of elephants!

Addo Elephant National Park

Day 6: Addo Rest Day (0-50km) Highlights: Safari, Safari, Safari

Enjoy a day completely focused on wildlife. Enjoy

a full day Game Drive into Addo Big 5 Nature

Reserve. The Game Rangers will make the bush

come alive and they share their knowledge and

insight with you. Relax and unwind back at your

beautiful guest house on your return.

Day 8: Addo to Tsitsikamma (+- 221 km)

Highlights Storms River Mouth

Today you will ride to Tsitsikamma National Park

and sleep in wooden cabins overlooking Storms

River Mouth. You will have the whole afternoon

free to explore this beautiful National Park.

Storms River is the start of our famous “Otter

Trail” and you can walk part of the hike down to

the breathtaking suspension bridges between the

sea cliffs. Enjoy an evening spent in this very

unique camp overlooking the Indian Ocean.

Tsitsikamma Sunspension bridges

Day 9: Tsitsikamma – Knsyna-

Oudtshoorn (+- 260 km)

Highlights: Exploring Knysna, Riding the Garden

Route

Today you ride the world-famous Garden Route.

The first stop is the spectacular Bloukrans Gorge.

Bloukrans is home to the world Highest Bungee

Jump- 216 Meters of pure Adrenalin. Next up you





ride into Knysna to marvel at the beautiful Knysna

Heads. From here riders can either take the dirt

or tar route into the Mountains. Both option

include unbelievable views and spectacular

mountain roads- that the Garden Route in known

for. You will arrive in Oudtshoorn- the Ostrich

Capital of South Africa- in the late afternoon. This

will be your home for the next two nights.

Ostrich Hugs in Oudtshoorn

Day 10: Rest Oudtshoorn (+- 0-200 km)

Highlights: Garden Route, Ostrich farms, Cango

Caves and spectacular mountain passes

Today is a rest day- but there is so much to see

and do. You may wish to visit The Cango Caves

with its beautiful stalactites and stalacmites or do

a tour of a working Ostrich farm- where you will

get to feed, touch and hug Ostriches. For those

that would like to do some more exciting dirt

riding there will be an optional ride over the

famous Swartberg Pass, this is a bucket list ride

for Adventure Bikers the world over.

Swartberg Pass

Day 10: Oudtshoorn to Hermanus (+- 350

km)

Highlights: Route 62, Cape Agulhas

After an early breakfast, you make your way to the

start of Route 62. The road winds through the

Swartberg Mountains and beautiful foothills in

their valleys. Next up, you carry on down to Cape

Agulhas- the Southernmost tip of Africa at 34° S

and 20°E . Here the ice cold waters of the Atlantic

ocean meet the warm Indian ocean, creating a

turbulent mixture of untamed beauty. There is

always a party at Cape Agulhas, as you celebrate

reaching the most southern point of Africa, after a

photoshoot you carry on to Hermanus- the whale

watching capital of South African and your home

for the night.

Southern Most Tip Of Africa

Day 11: Hermanus to Cape Town (+-270 km) Highlights: Bettys Bay Penguins,

Coastal Roads, Cape Point

Today you make your way to Cape Town, South

Africa's Mother City. This is the highlight of the trip as

there are beautiful coastal views with twisting roads

cut into the sea cliffs virtually all the way. First stop is

the old Navy port of "Simonstown" where you can

view South African penguins living it up on the beach.

After that we make our way to Cape Point- the most

South-westerly point of Africa (with views of the Cape

Peninsula). Tonight you sleep in Cape Town with

breathtaking views of Table Mountain.





Cape Point Peninsula

Day 12: End of tour (+- 0-50 km)

Sadly, your tour of South Africa has come to an

end. We guarantee that you will take home loads

of awesome photographs and fond memories of

South Africa the warm people you have met.

Transfers will be arranged to the airport.

Please note that we can book any post/pre tour

accommodation and activities for you. Click here

for add-on tours.

2019 Pricing

BIKE MODEL

PRICE RIDING

1 UP, SHARE

BMW F700GS R 41,480

BMW F800GS R 42,800

BMW R1200GS R 47,240

BMW R1200GS ADV R 49,400

Passenger / Pillion, add: R 17,080

Single Supplement, add: R 7,410

2020 Pricing

BIKE MODEL

PRICE RIDING

1 UP, SHARE

BMW F700GS R 47,360

BMW F750GS R 51,680

BMW F800GS R 48,850

BMW F850GS R53,320

BMW R1200GS R53,320

BMW R1250GS R58,840

BMW R1200GS ADV R 57,050

BMW R1250GS ADV R59,280

Passenger / Pillion, add: R 17,920

Single Supplement, add: R 6,930

Prices are based on sharing accommodation and

quoted in South African Rand. To convert to

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Understanding the Pricing: All prices are quoted per motorcycle based on riding 1 up and sharing accommodation. If you would like to bring a passenger add the "Pillion price" to the base price OR if you would like your own room, add the"Single Supplement price to the base price to get your total.

Price includes:

• 11 Days Motorcycle Rental

• 11 Nights Accommodation in 3-4 Star Accommodation

• GPS FULLY LOADED WITH ROUTE MAPS

• Side Panniers and top box to Carry Luggage

• 11 Breakfasts

• 1 x Full Day Safaris into Addo Elephant Park



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• 1 x Night Drive and Fire boma Dinner in Scotia (Addo)

• Sama Tours T-shirt

• Guide Book

• Map of South Africa

• Free Transfers from the Johannesburg International Airport

• The most amazing motorcycle adventure you have ever had!

• Motorcycle return Transfer from Cape Town

• All Taxes

Price does not include

• Local and International Flights • Visas (Note American, Australian, British,

do not require visas for South Africa or Swaziland)

• Drinks • Items of a personal nature • Activities and meals not listed in "Tour

Includes" • Tour Guide • Back Up Vehicle • Petrol- (Budget R3,300 for entire tour) • Knobbly Tyres- Our bikes come standard

with Bridgestone Battleaxe tyres which are more suited to on road riding. If you plan to do all the optional offroad- then we recommend upgrading to Knobbly tyres- Once off Supplement of R3,000 per bike

Add-On Tours

Do you want to get even more out of your

vacation? If you feel like spending a couple of days extra in Southern Africa, before or after your tour, why not try one of these popular “non motorcycle riding” excursions .Please note that we can book any post/pre tour accommodation and activities for you. You can read more about our Add-On Tours on our webpage:

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14 Day Garden Route Tour - SAMA Tours · plan to do all the optional offroad- then we recommend upgrading to Knobbly tyres- Once off Supplement of R3,000 per bike Add-On Tours Do