| Garden Route | ||
| Festivals | ||
| Klein Karoo National Arts Festival | ||
| Every year in March/April more than 100 000 lovers of the various arts, gather in Oudtshoorn for a week of dancing, films, cabaret, classical music, comedy, contemporary music, open air concerts, plays, literary art & poetry. It has become a spectacular event, even enjoying many international visitors from all over the world. | ||
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| Knysna Oyster Festival | ||
| The Knysna Oyster Festival, one of South Africa's most popular and enduring festivals, and takes place annually in July. The festival is a 10-day feast for oyster lovers and a sport and leisure adventure for the whole family. The programme is packed with sporting events which includes a cycling tour, a forest marathon, canoeing, down-hill racing, sailing and also plenty of entertainment for the not-so-active and many occasions to toast Knysna's famous local mollusc! | ||
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| The Pink Loerie Mardi Gras | ||
| Every year in May the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras in Knysna offers four days of parties, exhibitions and performing arts - all tinged with glitz, glam and feathers. Founded in 2000, the float parade of colourful buses, replete with DJs, drag queens and revellers welcomes gay visibility in South Africa. Good queen fun is order of the day. Comedy, drama, cabaret, live music, dance, drag shows, drag cabaret, a national drag competition and parties take place at different venues every night. | ||
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| Other Festivals | ||
| Many other festival and events can be experienced on the Garden Route every year ranging from serious sport events as the Tour de Eden in August, the Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge or the First National Festival of Golf in July to the more leisurely festivals as the Garden Route Gourmet Festival in Mossel Bay or the Welcoming of the Whales or the Knysna Rose Show. | ||
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| Grahamstown National Arts Festival | ||
| If you are interested in what is new and happening on the national arts scene the Grahamstown festival will show you. It is the second biggest arts festival in the world, after Edinburgh. Music, visual arts, dance, theatre and much more keeps the town awake 24 hours a day for 10 days in July. The Main and Fringe programmes are so rich and varied that you can put together a personalised Festival consisting of street theatre, street life, sundowner concerts and dozens of exhibitions and parties, that meets your particular dreams, tastes and desires. | ||
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