Visit South Africa / Maps - Silk Bush Mountain Vineyards

Visiting South Africa & Silkbush

Having been to South Africa 41 times since 1994, we still remain taken by its incredible beauty, boundless opportunity, and the welcoming and genuine hospitality of its people.

Because many international travel agents are not regularly on the ground nor detail oriented, we’ve made the videos to help you plan a visit to famous Cape Town through Stellenbosch wine country and on to Silkbush Mountain Vineyards and our Guest Cottage.

After the videos have wet your appetite, you can download maps and three detailed articles to assist anyone planning an initial trip to the Beloved Country. We have distilled the major insights gained from years of travel to South Africa, the Okavango Delta game camps of Botswana, and Tanzania/Zanzibar. The document also includes links to other websites, suggested guide services, lodging, travel itineraries.

Videos

These professional videos were made by Rene and Corne Van Rooyan in South Africa, to share our unique high elevation winefarm, Silkbush Mountain, and to introduce you to some of the winemakers who buy Silkbush Estate Pinotage Grapes. Alana Gentry and Dave Jefferson also produced a narrated slideshow for people planning a trip to the Western Cape called, A Tale of Two South African Mountains: Table Mountain and Silkbush Mountain. We hope you enjoy the videos and come visit us soon.

(Full Screen Viewing: Click the icon next to HD on each video.)

Trip Planning & Maps

After you’ve watched the video, A Tale of Two Mountains, you can use this page to print out maps and Dave’s PDF, Planning a Trip to South Africa, which includes South Africa travel information and tips, a travel checklist and “Ten Perfect Days”, a proposed Itinerary.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF: tips and contact information for restaurants, lodging, guides and a perfect ten-day trip.

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We have illustrated the fastest way to drive from Cape Town International Airport (via the N2, R300 and N1) to Worcester/Breede River Valley area. However, once through the Dutoitskloof Tunnel, there are three alternative roads to SILKBUSH, as illustrated on the second and third map.

IMPORTANT: If you do not make the initial (right) turnoff to Rawsonville, you are unable to take either the first or second route to SILKBUSH. (The N1 has relatively few on/off places and no 'cloverleaf' overpasses.) Your only alternative then is the turnoff to the R43 just before the large Shell station. If you get to the traffic signal (robot), you have missed everything and must do a U turn.

IMPORTANT: Once on the R43, note the indicated distances. When you see the left turn sign for Slanghoek, slow down; the right turn for Breerivier is less than a mile ahead. If you miss it, about 3 miles ahead is the T junction with the R303. Make a U turn and come back to Breerivier and turn left toward nearest mountains. IMPORTANT: Even though you are now about 5 miles from the vineyard, please pay attention to this last map. You must make three more turns on blacktop road to get to the last mile of dirt. Good navigators have fumbled this last 5 miles more times than we like to recall. Anton's cell phone is 083-629-1735 if you blow it and still need help.

The Bainskloof and Mitchells passes, and the small towns of Tulbagh and Ceres are spectacular, 'do not miss' sites. This entire region could be deemed a national park in many countries; budget some time and really enjoy it properly. You'll be glad you did.