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Article: Take in the scents of South Africa's 100-mile GARDEN; This tourist route east of Cape Town really grows on you,says Gareth Huw Davies.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2005
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Byline: GARETH HUW DAVIES
Sometimes you have to go to the very end to find the very best. At the foot of South Africa is a floral paradise, a coast where the flowers bloom year round, the sands are wide and white and the whales play within splashing distance of shore.
Welcome to South Africa's prestige holiday haunt on the fringe of the balmy Indian Ocean, the Garden Route.
A benign climate promotes a riot of colour and scent on this narrow 100-mile margin below the mountains east of Cape Town that form a buffer with the arid interior.
The Garden Route is part of the Western Cape Floral Kingdom. It contains fynbos, the heath-like ...