
Garden Avenue may be the best line Zijia
When the chaos cloud Feidu of Table Mountain in the rear mirror in the gradually changing hour, I said to myself: “Good-bye, Cape Town; Park Boulevard, I came.”
First heard about the gardens in 2003, a self-driving tour has just finished a friend in South Africa wrote to me with excitement, said: “In the Park Boulevard drive, I once felt like a stroll in the top of the world.” Fatal phrase a description of the past few years has been hidden somewhere deep in your heart, until the drive from Cape Town city onto N2 national highway and started east – the direction of Park Boulevard and ran, I owe it to issue have been the sound of their cheers.
Garden Avenue, there is no conclusive specific starting and ending locations, it was considered to be from the Indian Ocean coast of Mossel Bay (Mossel Bay) has been shouted in Kama National Park east to around 400 km of lines, but some people think that from Cape Town to the Eastern Cape coastal city of Port Elizabeth more than 700 kilometers are considered Park Boulevard, as self-drive tourists tend to choose took the opportunity to arrive in Cape Town from Johannesburg, car rental to play all the way down to Port Elizabeth later took the opportunity to leave, or reflect on your own Road The line of the. As the traffic along the improved accommodation and infrastructure, where most foreign tourists in South Africa self-drive lines, as expected, along the way I am not a street-side bar and sat next to him in German chat, that is, with the Australian tourists stand on the same piece of reef on the sea view to help Brazilian photographed.
When I was in Cape Town family hotels holding map study time, enthusiastic hostess Ross said: “going to the gardens? I recommend you for a way.” (Outside of travel, we must listen to the recommendations of the local people This will give you the journey to bring others can not copy a pleasant surprise and harvesting may be from the “Lonely Planet” travel handbook like to go to school not be done. even once, hoteliers very serious to tell me how you can walk around the to open a highway toll station.) Ross said that you will usually scripted to drive along the N2 all the way down, through Somerset West, Caledon, Swellendam and other inland cities and towns, until the Mossel Bay, in order to see the sea, but if starting from the Somerset West on along the coast road you can not only appreciate the wonders of tribes are connected, but also a passing whale town of Hermanus, to reach the southernmost tip of the African continent, Cape Agulhas (Cape Agulhas).
Departure from Cape Town along the N2 highway about 40 km from Somerset West in the vicinity, there is a R44 with the North-South Highway intersection, north along Route R44 can reach the famous wine region, such as Stellenbosch, Pal, France, town, etc. concentrated almost all of South Africa’s well-known wine brands and wineries, and many visit the gardens of the people will choose to stay here a day or two, and wandering around in between the various wineries, wine tasting food. But this time I chose the direct south. Sea Strand and Gordon’s Bay is the Cape Town and surrounding area residents have come to leisure town, fine restaurants, hotels, shops everywhere, but once left, close to the foot of twists and turns of the R44 Highway lonely look up Only the immediate endless blue sky and water, irrigation hundred percent pure sea breeze come kick into gear.
Passing Hermanus (Hermanus) so I am a little frustrated, because February is not here to see the whale season. Year in August to 11 months, these giant sea wizard through the long journey to this piece from the Northern Hemisphere gathered in the warm waters of feeding farrowing, but also allow the town Hermanus town of overcrowding, because whales are very close to shore, Here the land has become the world’s best whale-watching spots. Mossel Bay from the east, began to enter the essence of the gardens in scenic locations, N2 highway for a while close to the blue bay, while another Guairu waterfalls mountain valley, green more and more concentrated, on-street brands constantly instructions leading to the luxury resort, golf course or a private villa, just as I started on these landscape “Shenmeipilao,” we suddenly took a dramatic turn in the road halfway up the mountain, long corner to the beach are now available at the present, kicking me, “wow” to shouting: white waves a stacked layer upon layer toward the shore, the sea breeze with a thin layer of water vapor from the general shrouded like a mist along the beach houses and trees, beautiful. Side of the road just built specifically for visitors viewing platform, I quickly go on overlooking the park. There is an original called “wilderness” (Wilderness) of the town is the Garden Route, one of the famous resort area. If you are lucky, but also at the viewing platform to be able to see dolphins playing in the Indian Ocean where jump. Then I suddenly remembered a friend said in the letter of that sentence, Park Boulevard is really a mortal into a “sky road.”