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Port St. Johns is an African village and you also see colourful folks here, as it has become a Mekka for hippies. And especially during the school holidays Port St. Johns is a popular holiday destination due to the excellent fishing spots at the river and at the sea, and because you can do some normal grocery shopping here, which is rare at the Wild Coast.
Port St. Johns has three beaches. The Second Beach, 5 kilometres east of the village centre, is the prettiest, surrounded by evergreen rainforest and wild banana trees. Please find visitors' information and accommodation on the INFO page of Port St.Johns.
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Overberg
[Swellendam] 
[Bontebok NP]
[Malgas]
Garden Route
[Mossel Bay]
[George]
[Oudtshoorn]
[Ostrich Farms]
[Cango Caves]
[Outeniqua Choo Choo]
[Wilderness]
[Knysna]
[Plettenberg Bay]
[Tsitsikamma NP]
Eastern Cape
[St. Francis Bay]
[Jeffreys Bay]
[Port Elizabeth]
[Addo Elephant NP]
[Kenton-on-Sea]
[Port Alfred]
[Grahamstown]
[Amatola Hogsback]
[East London]
[Kei Mouth]
[Umtata]
[Transkei]
[Coffee Bay]
[Hole in the Wall]
[Port St. Johns]
Karoo
[General Information]
[Karoo NP]
[Graaff-Reinet]
[Valley of Desolation]
[Mountain Zebra NP]
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Port St. Johns
Pondoland / Eastern Cape
Port St Johns is, undoubtedly, the jewel of the Wild Coast, an authentic piece of Africa at the mouth of the Umzimvubu River, embedded in subtropical rainforests.
The Pondo king Faku, represented by his son Ndamase, settled here in 1845. In the year 1878, the area became part of the Cape Colony, on request of the Pondo king. Two british officers, Thesiger and Sullivan, travelled to Port St Johns in the same year and set up the Union Jack. They gave the two impressive mountains on each side of the river their names.
Port St. Johns stayed a white enclave, until it became part of the Transkei in 1976, to make Paramount Chief Matanzima agree to the homeland policies of the Apartheid regime.
Left: Second Beach. Top right: The Umzimvubu River seen from Mount Thesiger. Bottom right: town centre of Port St. Johns.
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