Best Driving Route From Cape Town To Durban

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Best driving route from cape town to durban.

You will not regret visiting the garden route. Simon s town to cape point. Simon s town is a great place to start many a drive but our favourite is the route from here to cape point stop just outside simon s town to visit the penguins at boulders beach before you wind your way along the quiet largely untouched coastline to the majestic promontory of cape point when you arrive you can take the flying dutchman funicular to the. It is the more scenic route and may take longer but the views are simply spectacular.

Cape town is one of the world s best cities for driving. Cape town to durban. This was a mega drive taking a total of 7 hours without any stops. Durban cape town through bloemfontein and the garden route.

From port elizabeth to cape town it is only about 750 km s though so you could always just fly from durban to pe and then do a self drive through the beautiful garden route and stop over in tsitsikamma plettenberg bay knysna hermanus etc. Here i m going to lay out a simple but long driving route starting in cape town and following the coast all the way to durban. My first stop would be on the wild coast where i drove 30km down a gravel track from mthatha. Provided you skip the rush hour traffic in and out of the city there s a good chance you ll feel a new sense of vigour when you take to one of these scenic routes whether you re looking for panoramic views sweeping bends or thrilling engineering feats.

However the distance is considerable making it perfect for a road trip from cape town. Total non stop driving durban cape town along the reasonably most direct route along the kzn south coast through the former transkei and the wild coast the eastern cape game reserves area the garden route including such places as storms river plettenberg bay and knysna route 62 through the little karro visiting oudtshoorn the ostrich capital of the world and then trough the. The coastal route durban cape town through the transkei and the garden route the n2 the n2 from durban down the hibiscus coast is a pretty drive featuring expansive sea views and gentle rolling hills of sugar cane. The route would take me 5 days driving from umhlanga a beautiful little residential town just north of durban and finishing in cape town.

A third route offers a bit of country and coast.