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South Africa's Best Scenic Drives
Drives worth a detour in themselves — Chapman's Peak, Clarence Drive, Bainskloof and the Panorama Route. Each earns a slow morning.
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Chapman's Peak Drive
The cliff-hugging coast road between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, cut into the mountainside.
Clarence Drive (R44)
The False Bay coastal drive from Gordon's Bay to Rooi Els — the most beautiful road in the Western Cape outside Chapman's Peak.
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park Scenic Drive
A vast red-dune desert park straddling the Botswana border — predator country and space.
Long Tom Pass Drive
The historic pass road between Sabie and Lydenburg — mist, forest, and the longest sight-line of the Mpumalanga escarpment.
Richtersveld
A mountain desert World Heritage landscape in the far northwest — South Africa's last true wilderness.
Swartberg Circle Drive
A loop of the Swartberg Pass and Meiringspoort from Oudtshoorn — the most dramatic Karoo-mountain drive in the country.
Blyde River Canyon
One of the world's largest green canyons, on the Panorama Route above the lowveld.
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