Cape Town – Windhoek - Motorbike tour

Arriving in the late morning at completely modernised International airport in Cape Town, we meet and greet you. The way to our hotel already provides a great view of dreamlike setting of Cape Town. Table Mountain, city center and the harbour allow pretty impressions before reaching the Winchester Mansions Hotel, one of the best adresses that South Africa has to offer located at Beach road in Seapoint. Once you’re booked in we have a short welcoming meet up. The afternoon then is yours to relax and perfect to acclimatise or discover Cape Town. Great is a „Hop on and hop off“ trip with the double-decker bus, or visit the amazingly restored Waterfront at the harbour nearby before we meet up again to visit an interesting restaurant all together.

On our way to legendary “Cape of Good Hope” and the „Cape Point“ we just start highlighting it again with another ride over spectacular “Chapman’s Peak” drive, the absolute bikers dream. Although the “Cape of Good Hope” meanwhile has become one of the most popular destinations in South Africa, one still has to have at least seen this place. We then continue on fascinating 200km along the coast and enjoy cruising in sea breeze on lovely tar roads towards east. Our destination is the famous whale watching town Hermanus. The hotel is located directly in the old harbour area flanked by the seaside. Apart from the stunning views over the Walker Bay, a delicious Cape cuisine awaits us in the evening.

We today continue towards the north. Passing Paarl and Wellington we further ride across the enourmous fruit plantations of Ceres and come along the wonderful passes into and through the Cederbergs, and eventually pass the massive “Clanwilliam dam” before we reach our next destination in the afternoon, the small town of Clanwilliam, which is known for its fruit and rooibos tea plantations. We stay at the ‚Saint du Barry’s Country Lodge, a small colonial style guesthouse which is known not only for its unforgettable dinners.

The peaceful, infinite hills of the Namaqualand determine today’s impressions. Once we have passed the mouth of the Olifants river, quickly refuel in Lutzville and leave behind that kind of civilisation around Strandfontein very soon to submerge into a quiet lonesome region of deserted farms und seemingly extinct towns. On our way north we travel on smaller, relatively unstable roads always parallely to the Atlantic coast through this wonderful landscapes of Namaqualand until we reach our destination ‚Die Houthoop‘, a remote guest farm on the edge of the Namaqualand. The fish specialities prepared on the open fire are out of this world.

Enjoy an early golden glamour of sunrise over one of the only two permanent flowing rivers in Namibia and off we go for the longest stage on this tour. First along the green oasis of the Orange river stream towards west, we then pass Rosh Pinah for a fuel stop and take northern direction on the commonly used and partly tarred mining road to Aus, where we have a nice coffee-break at the Klein Aus Vista Desert Lodge. An almost 120km tar road takes us across the desert towards the small dreamy harbour town of Luderitz. We spend the night at the “Nest Hotel” at the waterfront overlooking the Luderitz bay. It seems as if time has come to a standstill here. The majority of houses stem from the German colonial era. The Benguela Current by the way causes the coastal temperatures to be significantly colder than inland temperatures.

Today we experience the extreme landscapes of the central Namib Desert. The route continues from Helmeringhausen along and between the bizarre range of Tiras and Naukluft Mountains and the rim of Namib Desert passing red dunes, which are visible on the other side. Finally this stunning stage leads through open plains around the Naukluft Mountains where Zebra, Springbock and Oryx antelope roam. Our today’s accommodation is reached then on the edge of the famous fossile dunes – the Namib Desert Lodge.

Dieser Tag steht ganz zur freien Verfügung auf der Lodge oder für einen Bummel in Windhoek, je nachdem, wann ihr Rückflug startet, oft ja erst abends. So  können in der Hauptstadt einige der Sehenswürdigkeiten besichtigt werden und zahlreiche Straßencafés sowie Basare und Geschäfte mit landestypischem Kunsthandwerk laden mindestens zum Beobachten des bunten Treibens ringsum ein. Den Transfer zum Airport organisieren wir von der Lodge aus.

Üblicherweise handelt es sich um Übernachtflüge, Ihre Ankunft zuhause also am frühen Morgen des Folgetages.