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Exploring the Cape Town coastline
Vintage bike tour along the scenic Cape coastline
Scenic passes
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Scenic mountain passes
There’s a legend about every South African mountain pass. Who designed it, who built it, what happened to others who have driven on it...
The Abel Erasmus Pass
The Abel Erasmus Pass is a dramatic mountain road that ascends some 800m during its 24km length, linking Limpopo with the Panorama Route of Mpumalanga.
Chapman's Peak Drive
Chapman's Peak Drive, among the most scenic stretches of road in the world, has been upgraded and made safer to ensure more regular access.
The Prince Alfred Pass
The Garden Route settlements of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay needed to be connected to the interior - the Prince Alfred Pass was the answer.
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The Bain's Kloof Pass
Wellington was connected with the rest of South Africa once Andrew Geddes Bain built a road over the mountains, linking it to the Tulbagh valley.
The Seven Passes
The Seven Passes route is a 75-kilometre-long trip that takes you past 7 eye-catching gorges, cut deep by rivers flowing down to the sea.
The Long Tom Pass
The Long Tom Pass was built between Lydenburg and Sabie as an alternative route for the waggoners of the 1800s to get through to Mozambique.
The Swartberg pass
The Swartberg pass, linking Oudtshoorn with Prince Albert, was believed a near-impossible job and it bankrupted the first road-builder who tried. Then came Thomas Bain.
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