subject: Garden Route Right Ambience [print this page] South Africa is known for many of its peculiar regions, diverse lands, varied animals, colourful flowers, and amazing kinds of birds that make for all the vibrancy associated with the land. One of the main attractions of the country that adds to the diversity and maintains its unique ambience and atmosphere is the Garden Route. And surprisingly for many, the garden route turns out to be something else, apart from the popular imagination of a route that is embraced by gardens on both sides.
South Africa is a land that is known for its natural resources, natural reserves, and perfectly natural beauty. With such a reputation under its hat, it is no wonder that it has also managed to keep its lush green stretch of land along the coast intact, inviting visitors from all walks of life and from all corners of the world to bask in its beauty. The Garden Route stretches a long distance and includes a number of beaches on the way.
Right from Heidelberg to the Storms River, the south-eastern coast of South Africa is amply decorated with lush green vegetation, lagoons, coral reefs, water bodies, forests, mountains, bays and beaches. If that doesnt sound inviting for tourists, what will? Thats precisely the reason why the Garden Route has shot to prominence over the years, proving to be one of the main attractions of South Africa.
The number of beaches that the Garden Route encloses would compete with the number of natural reserves that lay on the other side of the route. The Garden Route is ensconced between all the natural reserves, mountains and forests on one side, and the majestic Indian Ocean on the other. With such intensity of natural beauty, it is no wonder that the stretch acts as one of the most important regions when it comes to abundance of flora and fauna in the country.
The beaches such as Mossel Bay, Oudtshoom, Plettenberg Bay, Natures Valley, and George are names that visitors would be able to immediately get associated with, even as the mountains of Quteniqua and Tsitsikamma provide a majestic backdrop to the already fertile region. The Garden Route would be equally attractive to nature lovers, botanists, zoologists, animal lovers, hikers, tourists, and connoisseurs of natural beauty alike. It is no wonder, then, that the region has been projected as one of the chief holiday destinations in South Africa.
