The
Garden Route and Eastern Cape
offers a magnitude of Towns and routes
to follow. Read more below.
-Garden
Route Tours, Cape Country, Sir Lowry's Pass
Sir
Lowry's Pass, South Africa, Garden Route... Early
travellers would not have had an easy time of attempts
to negotiate the Hottentot’s Holland Mountain
range, which stretches along the eastern side of
Somerset West and Gordons Bay, providing one of
the most awe-inspiring backdrops in the Western
Cape - on a clear day you can view the range all
the way from the southern suburbs of Cape Town.
Today, Sir Lowry’s Pass allows easy passage
across this daunting natural barrier.
The
beauty of this pass, often shrouded in mist and
rain, more than makes up for the unsynchronised
traffic lights that grace the N2’s tardy passage
through Somerset West and around Gordons Bay, invariably
resulting in bumper-to-bumper snarl-ups and quick
sales amongst the posse of self-employed salesmen
who dart in amongst cars with the latest sunglasses,
hats, cell phone chargers and the like.
Sir
Lowrys Pass, Cape HelderbergBut Sir Lowry’s
Pass is a lot more than a route across a formidable
mountain range. It is also a haunt for bird watchers
and nature lovers and the car park, on the western
side of the N2 as one approaches the top of the
pass, provides a perfect stop to explore the area.
The mountain fynbos is fairly accessible here and
one can take three to four hours to explore the
mountain side and the lower areas where streams
become densely vegetated and provide perfect cover
for birds.
The
town side of Sir Lowry’s Pass has some truly
awesome views over False Bay, whilst over the other
side of the mountain one enters a beautiful valley
that is home to forests, orchards, fruit, flowers
and vineyards - the Elgin Valley. In spring this
part of the world is a display of blossoming fruit
trees and heavy with grapes on the vine.
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