Welcome to Mossel Bay Backpackers
Mossel Bay Backpackers is a friendly hostel with all the necessary facilities available. Television, self-catering kitchen, bunker beds, each with a locker, private double rooms, sleeping 2, 4, 6 or 9 persons. Only 300m to surf spots. Located at The Point which has the most consistent waves along the South African coastline.
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Activities include shark cage diving, deep sea fishing trips, Garden Route big five, horse riding and diving arranged. Nice and safe environment for day & night walks along the beach, or mountain trail. Great for whale watching between July and November. Superb Pub-crawling watering holes (no driving needed!) - at least 5 within 500m! Khoi-San (Bushman) cave - 300m from the backpackers.
Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex displaying the Old Post Office Tree, Caravelle (old ship), and Shell Museum, is a must for any visitor to South Africa. Mossel Bay has the oldest European History along the Southern African Sub-continent.




