I've been riding around South Africa for 3 months now - some excellent riding.

Paved? or off-road? Lots of great riding either way.

If you start in Cape Town:
1) yeah, do the Cape Ride, ride around the Constantia wineries - 1 day),
2) Stellenbosch, Paarl, Franschhoek wine areas to the east - do a winery or two, have a nice lunch at one of the great restaurants, enjoy the scenery.
3) Route 62 - starts around Robertson, ride it to Oudtshoorn - takes you past Ron's Sex Shop east of Barryton.

If doing dirt
4) At Oudtschoorn, do the Swartburg Pass - at the top, there's a side tour to Die Hel - maybe stay the night in Prince Albert.
5) the Baviaanskloof - a river/canyon area- from Willowmore east - you come out near Port Elizabeth.

If not doing dirt
4 & 5) from Oudtschoorn, south to the Garden Route - coast road which is mainly N2 (yuck) but there's places to get off and explore. Nysna, Stormsriver, Port Jeffries, Port Elizabeth.

6) do the Wild Coast - stay at Port St. John, especially if you need a day of rest or two

7) Ride up to Underberg - but don't do the Sani Pass alone or carrying gear. 8) If you want, ride around the east of the Drakensburg Mountains, come down from the north (Bethlehem) to Lesotho (worth seeing)
9) That area had a lot of Boer War history - read up on that before you travel -
10) maybe do the Battlefields, drop down into Zululand on your way to the coast around Durban,
11) back up through Swaziland, up to the Blyde River Canyon area - great paved motorcycle roads around Pilgrims Rest, Sabie, Graskop.
12) Then back to Jo'burg and you're out of there.

South Africa is one place you can do ironbutt type riding (or rather, as much riding as you can squeeze in between sunup to sundown). Some great scenery, especially KwaZula-Natal, the Transkei (wild coast and inland), the Drakensburg.

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quastdog
Chiang Mai, Thailand

Just to confuse you I would say go the other way... Start in Cape Town and go up north to Namibia and consider returning via Botzwana. I did this with a rented vehicle a few years ago and it was a great trip!
You can choose dirt or tarmac after your own choice and have the opportunity to cover a lot of miles.

Have a nice trip!

Hi,

Ironbutt means lots of km, but most rentals have only a certain mileage free per day. So to ride the hole day will end up quite expensive. I would rather advise you to go more interessting gravel roads, start in Durban go up to Lesotho and further to the Transkei, could fill you also a hole days of riding with less milage and if you only have 10 days a trip like that would be perfekt. And you get an real african expierience in the transkei.

enjoy

Thomas

most i've checkout offer unlimited milage

Don't forget Chapmans Peak drive.
Start off in Town (CT) out towards GreenPoint, Sea Point, Clifton etc, 'till eventually you get to Noordhoek.
You want to start heading east then, perhaps a ride over Red Hill, Boyes drive, etc.
All the Cape Tonians (Kaapies) will know these places like the back of their hands.
Oh, and while your near Kalk Bay harbour, cross over the level crossing, pop in there and get to "Kalkies" the best fish and chips you could ever imagine.
God, Im'e home sick !



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