The Garden Route region is famous for its legendary hiking, running and mountain biking trails. This time around our focus is on the rollicking network of singletrack spiderwebbing out from the Saasveld Campus …

Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve may be tiny, but it packs superb diversity and scenic surrounds into a compact 600ha space. Good news is that this Eastern Cape conservation gem now boasts a mountain bike trail as well, and that it is perfect for family outrides.

South Africa’s renowned Garden Route slumbers peacefully along the Indian Ocean shoreline, with the forests between Plettenberg Bay and Knysna rated as prime ‘trail estate’. The coastal-belt woods here brim with ancient indigenous hardwood giants, and offer a full gamut of MTB and gravel-bike options for free-ranging riders.