Two Oceans2024-03-05T23:44:57+00:00

Two Oceans

This motorcycle tour has it all without leaving South Africa! A paved road loop is a perfect introduction to Africa as we connect mountain passes, oceanside roads, and Big-5 safaris. Incredible food and warm African hospitality await, with just enough spare time to allow you to fine tune it to perfection. Excellent for couples

from

CAD $10,295

per person

BASIC DIFFICULTY

MORE INFO

DURATION

14

DISTANCE 3500 km / 2200 mi

PAVED 99%

GRAVEL 1%

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

PRICES AND DATES

Prices

CAD $10,295 with BMW F750GS and shared accommodation

OPTIONS

  • Passenger price +CAD $6,175

  • BMW F850GS +CAD $145

  • BMW R1250GS +CAD $1,145

  • BMW R1300GS +CAD $1,345

  • Harley-Davidson please enquire

  • Spyder RT please enquire

  • Single room supplement +CAD $1,445

Includes

  • All highlights as noted

  • 13 nights accommodation

  • All breakfasts

  • Lunches and dinners on ride days

  • Guide on motorcycle
  • Second guide in chase truck

  • Trailer with spare bike
  • Park entrance fees and tolls
  • Airport transfers
  • Motorcycle rental with basic insurance
  • Dedicated office staff for trip planning
  • Road book for day-to-day routing
  • The BEST welcome pack in the motorcycle touring world!
See full list in Terms and Conditions

Excludes

  • Visas, pre-trip medical items, trip & medical insurance
  • Personal travel to or from Tour
  • Lunches and dinners on rest days
  • Alcoholic drinks
  • Fuel
  • Staff and local guide gratuities

Dates

2024
February 22 – March 6 | Closed
November 16 –  29 | Open

2025
February 20 – March 5 | Open
November 15 – 28 | Open

ITINERARY

DAY 1

Cape Town
No riding.
Accommodation near Cape Town’s Waterfront.

After your arrival at Cape Town International Airport in the morning, we will arrange your transfer to a hotel near the V&A Waterfront. Here, you can relax after your flight and get comfortable with South Africa’s beautiful weather. During the afternoon, you will meet the other members of your group. This evening will be our first dinner together, and we will brief you about your trip, go over the special rules regarding riding motorcycles in Africa, and answer any questions you may have.

DAY 2

Paternoster
200km
Accommodation near Paternoster.

{Image Credit: Nico Smit)

We kick off with riding part of the tour with completing the bike rental and insurance formalities and will be on the road by late morning. Cape Town is guarded by the iconic Table Mountain, and our first stop after leaving the Mothercity will be at Blouberg beach, where the classic view of the city with the mountain behind it makes for that perfect frame of you on your bike. Leaving Blouberg behind, we hit the west coast and if time permits, we can stop in the scenic West Coast National Park, during the laid-back coastal ride up to the sleepy fishing village of Paternoster, where we will find our charming accommodation overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

DAY 3

Montagu
380km
Accommodation near Montagu

After a recommended early morning stroll on the beach, watching the local fisherman return with their catch, we leave the coast behind to ride through more of the Swartland, a rural agricultural area known for its wheat production and award-winning red wines. Passing through a few small, picturesque towns and traversing an enjoyable pass, all that will be left for the day is to drop down into and ride through the Koo Valley, known for quality apples, pears, apricots, and peaches. The laid back little town of Montagu in this Klein Karoo semi-desert area is our home for the night.

DAY 4

Oudtshoorn
290km
Accommodation near Oudtshoorn

(Photo Credit: Andrea Willmore)

Today offers another scenic ride from Montagu to Oudtshoorn, as we traverse some of the best parts of the iconic Route 62, one of South Africa’s popular tourist roads, winding its way through the Klein Karoo. The day unfolds amidst breathtaking mountain scenery riding through this semi-arid region. Outside Oudtshoorn, famous for its self-proclaimed title as the ostrich capital of the world, we will visit an ostrich show farm, to learn and experience more about these massive flightless creatures, before we find our lodge for the evening.

DAY 5

Graaff Reinet
390km
Accommodation near Graaff Reinet

(Photo Credit: Adriaan Venner Scheepers)

A full day of riding awaits today, as we start off with a super twisty section to check out a waterfall and a canyons. From there we will be riding through the main mohair producing in the country, which will include riding on the last paved single-lane concrete road in South Africa – watchout for oncoming traffic! Today we leave the impressive Swartberg mountain range behind for the stretched-out remote beauty that only the Karoo, South Africa’s most famous semi-desert area, can offer. Our hotel for this night was built in the 1800’s, and after our arrival, we have the option to visit the geological phenomenon known as the Valley of Desolation – a sheer cliff face, offering vast views over the Camdeboo National Park below. No wonder this is a South African national monument. And no better place to watch the sun go down!

DAY 6

Addo Elephant National Park
270km
Accommodation near Addo Elephant National Park

We will have a quick stop after breakfast to feast our eyes on the magnificent “Groot Kerk” (Large Church), whose foundation stone was laid in 1886 and its design inspired by Salisbury Cathedral in England – Graaff Reinet’s iconic architectural landmark.

We have an easy half day of riding broken up by a visit to a cheetah sanctuary, and a mid-day arrival to Addo Elephant National Park. We will hop in with a guide in a 4×4 for a driving tour of the park for the afternoon. The animals that may be sighted are too numerous to mention. The larger ones include the lion, leopard, cape buffalo, black rhino, zebra, spotted hyena, wildebeest, kudu, and eland. Addo is as far east as we will get, and tomorrow we swing south and then back west.

DAY 7

Jeffreys Bay
170km
Accommodation in Jeffrey’s Bay

If you are keen on spotting more animals, we can arrange for you to join an optional early morning game drive. Today’s ride is short, but we want to get to Jeffrey’s Bay early enough to park the bikes and get to the beach to enjoy this world famous surfing tow. If you’d like to go for a surf, or even consider going for surfing lessons, let us know and we can arrange that! Jeffreys Bay is South Africa’s most famous surfing spot as “J-Bay” is arguably the world’s best right-hand pointbreak and a stop on the Billabong Pro Surfing Tour. Our guest house is oceanside, right beside the prime surf spot called “Supertubes”!

DAY 8

Knysna
230km
Accommodation near Knysna

The coastline stretching between Jeffreys Bay and Knysna is arguably one of the most beautiful in South Africa. While we have another relative short ride of just over 200km for the day, it is packed with scenic highlights. We will follow the old road from J-Bay to the spectacular Storms River Mouth in the Tsitsikamma National Park.

The next stop is not for the faint hearted – if you are keen to do the world’s highest bungee jump from a bridge – now is your chance to do so at the Bloukrans Bridge.

For those of us who survived the bungee, we will continue via Natures Valley and Plettenberg Bay to our destination for the night, another oceanside lodge just past the oyster-famous town of Knysna. This evening the magnificent beach awaits to walk off those calories – why not hike all the way to Buffelsbaai (bay of the Buffalo) an interesting little seaside village with only 199 houses – and one of south Africa’s most loved vacation towns

DAY 9

Mosselbay
135km
Accommodation near Mosselbay

(Photo Credit: Andreas Weilguny)

Another shorter day filled with mountain passes and scenic lookouts. Tonight we stay at yet another luxury game lodge, and we will be in time for an afternoon and sunset game drive with the 4×4 and local guides. There is a spa here for those who would rather pamper themselves at the lodge.

DAY 10

Arniston
375km
Accommodation near Arniston

This morning gives the riders the option to hop onto an early morning game drive, before returning for breakfast and onto the bikes.

As we continue our journey towards Cape Agulhas, the continent’s southernmost point, we first have some more nice roads to ride and mountains to cross. As we eventually descend into the Overberg area, we will find our beachfront hotel in the fisherman’s village of Arniston. Besides the hotel are nationally landmarked Fisherman’s cottages with their whitewashed walls and thatched roofs, and colourful fishing boats, set off against a turquoise sea. It’s a magnet for photographers and artists from around the world, spurred on no doubt by the proclaiming of Arniston as one of the World’s Ten Best Hideaways by Time Magazine during May 1996. Our hotel is also a spa, so with a little planning you can also arrange for some pampering as a reward after a long day in the saddle.

DAY 11

Stellenbosch
290km
Accommodation in Stellenbosch

Today is a busy day! Our first stop is to visit Africa’s southernmost point, Cape Agulhas, about an hour away. Here we will make sure you get the obligatory photo and the chance to simultaneously dip one foot in the Indian Ocean and the other in the Atlantic. From Agulhas we head to the beautiful seaside town of Hermanus for lunch, the self-proclaimed whale capital of South Africa. Southern Right Whales calve here during July through November, and if we are here during this time chances are we will spot some of these giants close to shore. We continue along the coast to Stoneypoint Nature Reserve, to visit an impressive penguin colony before enjoying taking Clarence Drive, one of the Western Cape’s most beautiful stretches of coastal road, before our late afternoon arrival in South Africa’s second oldest city—Stellenbosch, famous for its university and world-class wineries.

DAY 12

Stellenbosch
Optional Riding Day
Accommodation in Stellenbosch

Today is an optional day. We offer riders a spectacular day ride covering 4 stunning passes, enjoying South Africa’s beautiful wine-country scenery. Or you can just take the day off, go on a wine tour, or drink coffee and write postcards in the beautiful old city of Stellenbosch. This is a day to do whatever your body is telling you to do. Another favorite spot to visit is the Franschhoek Motor Museum – an epic collection of vehicles in a beautiful setting.

DAY 13

Cape Town
170km
Accommodation in Cape Town

Our last day on the bikes on this tour and it is a beauty as we take on one of South Africa’s most scenic ocean-side roads—Chapman’s Peak Drive. We head out to the Cape Point section of the Table Mountain National Park, a reserve that offers quiet roads and panoramas of green fields, rocky cliffs, and the legendary Cape of Good Hope. This outcropping of southwest Africa has made sailors nervous for 500 years (and according to legend remains the mythical home of the damned ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman). From our land-side approach, we can admire the Cape without discomfort, staring out from the beach to the south where 4,000 kilometers of Atlantic Ocean separate us from Antarctica. From the Cape we head to Chappies, a suitable end to the riding part of this tour. This is our last night together and we will spend it in Cape Town’s beautiful V&A Waterfront watching the harbor life and sharing stories with new friends made.

DAY 14

Fly Out

(Photo Credit: Kyle from the North)

Our last day, and after breakfast the final paperwork is reviewed, and our trip is officially complete.

If you are curious to stay in Cape Town or the surrounding areas longer to do more riding, wine tours, shark cage diving or arrive in advance for the tour to do this… let us know and we can get you on the right track

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