YARD Travel × Porsche 911 Safari · 20–30 August 2027 · 11 days · 14 guests
Lesotho Highlands Drive
Full 11-day programme, 20–30 August. The Porsche 911 Safaris drive on six of these days, marked in colour with a 911 tag: from the Wild Coast over the Drakensberg escarpment, across the Lesotho highlands and out through Caledonspoort. Routes are planned for the raised 911 Safari builds: tar and good gravel only, no rock sections. Distances and times are pure driving, without stops.
Driving rules: no start before 09:00, all cars parked before sunset (about 17:45 in late August).
Whole route: Umngazi → Woodcliffe → Tenahead → Matatiele → St Bernards → Sani → Afriski → Maliba → Caledonspoort → Montusi. Google picks its own roads between these stops; the exact line is on the map below and in the GPX files.
Mark, please check these risks first
Before we lock the programme, these are the points I see as risky for the 911 Safaris. Please pick an answer and add a comment where needed, then send your reply with the button at the bottom of this block.
Unzip the file. There is one GPX per day plus one file with all days.
Connect the unit by USB and copy the GPX files into the GPX folder on the device. Garmin Express also works.
On the unit open Trip Planner (or Tracks on Tread/Overlander) and select the day.
Navigate along the track, not a recalculated route. The track follows the exact line on this page. The route version uses about 25 shaping points and may be recalculated by the unit.
Phone: Garmin Explore / Tread app
Unzip on the phone and tap the day file, then choose Open in Garmin Explore (or Tread).
Or upload to explore.garmin.com → Import, and it syncs to the paired device.
Each file holds: the track, a route with shaping points, and named waypoints for lodges, the picnic stop and border posts.
The “Google Maps” button on each day opens the same start, end and key via points, for a quick look. Google may pick its own roads between them; the GPX track is the reference.