Knysna by boat

| Want to escape the hordes of tourists on your next trip to Knysna? Try a holiday afloat.

Knysna by boat

| Want to escape the hordes of tourists on your next trip to Knysna? Try a holiday afloat.

Easy to find, difficult to leave

| At the foot of the Tsitsikamma Mountains is a lodge where nature and romance hold sway. Robyn Daly stopped in for beautiful mountain scenery and a bit of a striptease...

Explore the Knysna forest

| Heading to the Garden Route? Don't forget to take a stroll through Knysna's mysterious forests.

Knysna for a song

| We tracked down some of the best self-catering beds in and around Knysna.

Whalesongs and wellness

| With the ghostly sounds of whale songs drifting through her head, Rebekah Kendal stopped off at Whalesong Hotel & Hydro near Plettenberg bay for a few days of extreme R&R...

Wilderness wandering

| The Garden Route boasts some of South Africa's most spectacular coastline, offering rugged headlands and deserted sandy beaches. Nils van der Linden kicked off his shoes and took to the 60km Garden Route Trail...

Historic heart of the Overberg

| Travelling back and forth along the N2 in the Western Cape, travel editor Richard Holmes often wondered how many drivers had, like him, driven past Swellendam and thought to themselves: "I must stop off there sometime…"