In order to escape Christmas and its shopping and jingling terrors, we got up at 6h30 in the morning an headed East, out of Cape Town, and towards Mossel Bay.

We drove all morning, some 400 kilometers East, through the Western Cape’s mountain ranges, its farmlands and forests, bush land and hills.

View on Cape Town from Sir Lowry’s Pass

False Bay

The country is wide… and empty!

Most of it is cultivated though, with farms and fields, but towns or villages are far and few in between.

We are off to stay one night at a private game reserve, with two tours booked and an elephant ride in prospect.

Merry Xmas!