Local development projects offer traditional Xhosa meals. An hour's drive from Grahamstown is the village of Hogsback , situated in the striking Amatola Mountains . East London has a sub-tropical climate and is situated on the magnificent coastline of the eastern seaboard, part of the 'Romantic Coast'. There is excellent swimming at Eastern Beach, Nahoon Beach and Orient Beach . North of here is the Wild Coast , a remarkable stretch of coast that offers spectacular walks.
Many parts are inaccessible to normal vehicles.
Inland, the Karoo is a vast and beautiful upland area with spectacular sunsets, drier, hotter and colder than the coasts. The novelist Olive Schreiner made the area famous and her house at Cradock has been restored. The Mountain Zebra National Park is worth a visit, on the northern slopes of the Bankberg range . The town of Graaff-Reinet is situated in the heart of the Karoo Nature Reserve, at the foot of the Sneeuberg Mountains . From the viewpoints, it is possible to look down over Graaff-Reinet across towering red and ochre outcrops of rock.