Garden Route Forest Adventures

23/04/2014

The Garden Route is renowend for its dense indigenous forests hiding a small herd of wild elephant, its rich history form milling, timber logging and gold mining to the more recent spread of...

21/04/2014

If you go down to the woods today...

The Knysna forests extend along the coast between 22°E and 25°E and generally along 34ºS in the Garden Route region. Take 2 or 3-hrs and walk these dense indigenous forest trails to discover...

28/09/2013

19/09/2013

The Rheenendal Meander offers a great day outing to the dense forests at Jubilee Creek and Millwood Mine visit - remember to book for the best rated Sunday Lunch at Totties Farm Kitchen...

16/06/2013

Jubilee Creek Forest Adventure

08/06/2013

Hundreds of fortune hunters flocked to Millwood to dig for gold. By May 1888, 1400 claims were being worked on behalf of 40 syndicates and companies. A town mushroomed within weeks. Six hotels sprang up together with houses and shops. However, not enough gold was recovered to sustain the town. Machinery was abandoned where it stood and, within five years, it had become a ghost town.

Almost a century later, the Millwood Goldfield Society was formed and the committee has undertaken the restoration of Bendigo Mine and the Materollie. Many items of mining equipment have been restored.

From an Adit there will be a cocopan track to the crushers and stamp mills, while the washing pans and the corduroy recovery tables will be set up so that the plant is as authentic as possible. The only remaining building houses the Mining Museum and Mother Holly’s Tea Room.

08/06/2013

Dalene Matthee (1938-2005) Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today - Francis Levy (New York Times Book Review)

08/06/2013

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness - Nelson Mandela
(Gary Goldman; the Mushroom Hunter)

08/06/2013

From wagontrails to goldfields, forestry and logging, bush camps and elusive forest elephants to mountain biking, hiking routes and 4x4 trails; Garden Route Forest Adventures offers the experience of a lifetime in the Knysna & adjacent forests!