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The guides below cover the questions that sit between the flights and the plans: when to go, what the cities ask of your phone, how the long drives work, and how paying and tipping work in a country where cards rule and tips travel in small notes.

  • Roads and parks
  • First days
  • Money and tips
  • When to go
Paper-cut collage of the Garden Route: a coastal road between green hills and the sea, a suspension bridge and a small car.
Roads and parks

The Garden Route road trip

The Garden Route planned: the stops worth two nights, the pass to drive in daylight, the forest stretches with no signal, and the food along the way.

Checked on September 30, 2026

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