Oudtshoorn

Worth the detour from Oudtshoorn

4 notable places within an hour's drive.

Driving roads near Oudtshoorn

• 31 kmSwartberg PassThomas Bain's 1888 masterpiece of hand-packed dry-stone engineering, a gravel pass twisting to 1,583 m between Oudtshoorn and Prince Albert through folded red sandstone.
• 37 kmOuteniqua PassThe modern N9 climb from George to the Little Karoo, opened in 1951, with wide sweeping curves and a summit lay-by looking back over the Garden Route coast to the Indian Ocean. Often shrouded in fast-moving cloud.
• 38 kmMontagu PassAn 1848 gravel pass over the Outeniqua Mountains, hand-built with dry-stone retaining walls that still stand, running parallel to the modern N9. Declared a national monument, it is drivable in a normal car in dry weather.
• 47 kmGarden RouteA 300-kilometer stretch along South Africa's southeastern coast through forests, lagoons, and charming seaside towns.
• 77 kmSeweweekspoortA 17 km gravel road threading a Klein Karoo gorge between near-vertical folded Cape sandstone walls, crossing the stream more than twenty times. Built by convict labour in the 1860s, it is one of South Africa's great unsung mountain drives.

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