If you find yourself on a road trip along the Garden Route in South Africa, I highly recommend making the time to stop at Inverroche. Just a ten-minute drive north from Still Bay, you’ll come across the Inverroche Gin Distillery atop a hill surrounded by farms. It’s also just 90 minutes from George and definitely warrants a trip if you are traveling the Garden Route. Inverroche infuses their gin with different types of fynbos (pronounced fayn-boss), which grow abundantly in the Cape Floral Region. Fynbos translates to “fine bush” and encompasses the many variants of plants with fine leaves that […]

A hike that only took us a few hours felt more like a weekend’s worth of exploration. The landscape quickly evolves from pebbly walkway, to boardwalk, to sandy dunes, to rocky coastline and finally to a steep hilly trek before dead-ending into a stunning beachy stretch of coastline along the Garden Route. Robberg Nature Reserve is a small peninsular reserve in Plettenberg Bay, but because it’s surrounded by the vast Indian Ocean, you feel like a tiny speck making your way across the sharp rocks. If you’re a sucker for that feeling that you, and all your worries, are just […]