Plettenberg Bay Travel Information

More than a village and just less than a town, Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route boasts sweeping, unspoiled golden beaches, a dramatic rocky peninsula, intriguing lagoons and estuaries, towering indigenous forestry, unpolluted rivers and sea, beautiful view sites over the Indian Ocean, and an exceptional holiday climate all year round! Originally and rightly christened "Bahia Formosa" (beautiful bay) by early Portuguese explorers, Plettenberg Bay is now one of South Africa’s top seaside holiday resorts, and for artists and photographers the subject-matter is endless, being home to the rare Knysna forest elephant, teaming wildlife, vast expanses of Cape flora, delicate ecosystems in wetlands and lagoons, gigantic trees, and a bay large enough for the great whales of the Southern Ocean to calve in and protect their young.