The Knysna City Guides answer the questions every Garden Route trip throws up: where to eat lagoon oysters without overpaying for a handful on a plastic plate, which forest walk to pick when you only have a morning, which beaches are safe for children to swim and whether Tsitsikamma or Oudtshoorn is worth the long drive. Each guide is a short, honest list that tells you why a place earns its spot, what to order or look for and one practical tip, and it opens in your browser as soon as you have paid.
About the Knysna City Guides
- 79 places
- 4 guides
- 4 languages
- Works offline
- Print or PDF
- Instant access
- Free updates
The four Knysna guides
Food guide
18 places
Lagoon oysters and fish straight off the boats, wood-fired pizza and local craft beer, breakfast facing the Heads, a Saturday market in Sedgefield and the best lunch stops from Plett to Oudtshoorn.
Things to do guide
20 places
The Heads and the lagoon beaches, yellowwood forests where the last wild elephants hide, an old stone church across the water and day trips along the coast and over the mountains.
Family guide
20 places
Calm lagoon swimming, elephants, monkeys and birds of prey, forest boardwalks fit for pushchairs, a zip line for older children and caves for rainy days, with notes on ages and pushchairs.
Day trips guide
21 places
The Blue Flag sand at Brenton, the double beach at Buffalo Bay, forest picnics, the Robberg peninsula, Nature’s Valley and Storms River, then Wilderness, Sedgefield and Oudtshoorn.
Why an interactive guide beats a list
Tick places off
Mark each place as done and watch your progress, so you always know what is left.
Your own notes
Write notes on any place and add your own finds. They stay on your phone.
One tap to Maps
Every place opens in Google Maps, and the day route puts your picks in a sensible order.
Open now, near me
Filter by what is open right now or what is closest to you.
Works offline
Open the guide once with a connection and it keeps working without data.
Print it or save as PDF
On a computer, print any guide or save it as a PDF to take with you.
Three places from the guides
Freshline Fisheries
Trotter Street, near the harbour
Part fishmonger, part plain restaurant, this is where locals eat whatever the boats brought in that morning. Order the sole and chips or the seafood platter and sit in the covered courtyard, where heaters take the chill off cool evenings. From the food guide.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Queen Street, Belvidere Estate, across the lagoon
A little stone church from the 1850s, modelled on an English Norman chapel, with a warm yellowwood and stinkwood interior and a quiet garden of old graves. Its bell once lay on the seabed for months after going overboard on the voyage out. The drive round the lagoon is half the reward. From the things to do guide.
Robberg Nature Reserve
Plettenberg Bay, 35 min east of Knysna
Three marked routes cross this rocky peninsula, from a short 2 km walk to the Gap up to the full 9.2 km loop. On the way you pass a seal colony and high cliffs, then a sand dune slides down to a perfect beach. From the beaches and day trips guide.
Plan your days in Knysna
Day one: start at the East Head viewpoint and have breakfast on a deck facing the Heads, then cross to Thesen Island for a bakery lunch and a paddle on the canals. Finish with oysters on the Waterfront and a pint at Mitchell’s, the country’s oldest craft brewery. Day two: drive east, walk the Garden of Eden boardwalk, meet the herd at Knysna Elephant Park and hike the Robberg peninsula near Plettenberg Bay, with a long lunch at Bramon in The Crags. For a rainy or slow day, make the Saturday market in Sedgefield your breakfast, follow the creek path at Jubilee Creek, which still works in light rain, or cross the Outeniqua Pass to the caves and ostrich farms of Oudtshoorn.
Questions about the Knysna guides
What do the Knysna City Guides include?
Four guides covering 79 places: food, things to do, family, and beaches and day trips. Every entry tells you why it is worth going, where it is, notes on opening and one tip you can actually use.
How do I get the guides after paying?
The links appear on your order confirmation page and in the email that follows. They open in the browser of any phone, tablet or laptop, with no app to install and no account to set up.
Can I use the Knysna guides without internet?
Yes. Open each guide once while you are online and it keeps working offline afterwards, ticks and notes included. Sending a place to maps needs mobile data.
Which languages are the Knysna guides available in?
The guides open in English, German, French and Dutch. You can switch the language inside the guide at any time.
How much do the Knysna guides cost?
One guide is €4.99, two are €8.99 and the full set of four is €15.99.
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