Sir Lowry's Pass

#181 among destinations in South Africa

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain pass

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Sir Lowry's Pass is a mountain pass on the N2 national road in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It crosses the Hottentots-Holland mountain range between Somerset West and the Elgin valley, on the main national road between Cape Town and the Garden Route. A railway line also crosses the mountain range at this point. ()

Local name: Sir Lowryspas Coordinates: 34°8'59"S, 18°55'42"E

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Western CapeSouth Africa

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Sir Lowry's Pass – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, Monkey Town, Strand, Harmony Flats Nature Reserve.

4.2 miNW
Museum
Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, Somerset West
107 min walk • Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum - is 40 kilometres outside the city of Cape Town, just off the N2, in the region known as the Helderberg Basin. Lwandle was once inhabited by hunter-gatherer groups who secured their food from the nearby seashore.
3.3 miNW
34°7'11"S • 18°52'58"E
Monkey Town, Somerset West
85 min walk • Aquarium, Zoo
6.2 miNW
Town, Area
Strand, Somerset West
159 min walk • Strand is a seaside resort town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It forms part of the Helderberg region of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, situated on the north-eastern edge of False Bay and near the foot of the Helderberg Mountains.
4 miW
National park
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve
103 min walk • Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is a 9-hectare piece of protected land, located between Strand and Gordon's Bay, South Africa. It protects a surviving fragment of critically endangered Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos vegetation.
2 miSW
Dam
Steenbras Upper Dam, Gordon's Bay
51 min walk • Steenbras Upper Dam is an earth-fill type dam located in the Hottentots Holland Mountains above Gordons Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. It impounds the Steenbras River upstream of the older Steenbras Dam. The dam was constructed in 1977 for the City of Cape Town and serves mainly for municipal and industrial use.
3.6 miS
Dam
Rockview Dam, Cape Floristic Region
91 min walk • Rockview Dam is a zoned earth-fill/rock-fill type dam located on the Palmiet River near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986 and serves mainly for pumping purposes. The hazard potential of the dam has been ranked high.
4.2 miSE
Dam
Kogelberg Dam
108 min walk • Kogelberg Dam is a combined gravity & arch type dam located on the Palmiet River, near Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1986 and its primary purpose is to serve for irrigation and industrial use.