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Overberg

Overberg

Overberg is a region in South Africa to the east of Cape Town beyond the Hottentots-Holland mountains.

It lies along the Western Cape Province's south coast between the Cape Peninsula and the region known as the Garden Route in the east. The boundaries of the Overberg are the Hottentots-Holland mountains in the West; the Riviersonderend Mountains, part of the Cape Fold Belt, in the North; the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the South and the Breede River in the East.

Get in

Getting to Overberg

From Cape Town, either take the N2 highway, or drive around False Bay to Pringle Bay, then cruise along the coast (R44) to Kleinmond and beyond.

See

Worth seeing

The Cape Floral Region Protected Areas are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Do

Things to do

Scuba and freediving

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.