30/12/2022
The beautiful Garden Route is home to so many of us, but did you know these facts about the town you live in?
• The Garden Route gets its name from the rich, green forests, flowering fynbos and abundant streams, rivers and waterfalls occurring here.
• An oceanic climate, with warm summers and cool winters, makes it the mildest climate in South Africa and the second mildest in the world, after Hawaii.
• The Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma indigenous forests are a unique mixture of Cape Fynbos and temperature forest and are home to 300 bird species, including Knysna Loeries, Narina Trogons, Olive Thrushes, Chorister Robins, Cape Robins and Starred Robins.
• The area is home to several large mammal species including bush pigs, bushbucks, blue duikers, baboons, Vervet monkeys, reedbucks, leopards and caracals.
• The Garden Route is part of the Fynbos Biome, containing a minimum of 45 000 different species of plants of which over 69% are endemic to this region and found nowhere else on earth!
• The Garden Route is one of UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
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