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A last day on the Garden Route and full of animal highlights again. These meerkats were at a Wild Cat Sanctuary (Tenikwa - outside Plettenberg Bay) where we had a delightful personal guided tour of the various cats that are hard to see in the wild – leopard, cheetah, crakals, African wildcat, Cerval.

These 2 cheetahs were purring away and we were right up close, a few feet from them, inside their enclosure. They were, of course, used to people and there for educational purposes. Animals for rehabilitation were kept away from visitors.

Another couple of scenic stops and we retraced our steps along the coastal Garden Route and detoured off into the mountains – leaving behind cloud and drizzle and into 32 degrees F at the Dutch town of Oudtshoom. Graham had picked a gem of a place for our final B&B, La Pension. A gorgeous old place surrounded by gardens and all lifes little luxuries including this pool

that we sat by and swam in for the rest of the day and had breakfast by the next morning. Ostrich feathers (big Ostrich area) on the pillow, flowers by the side plates, top quality bed linen and tableware, huge room and bathroom, brilliant host – a big competitor for best B&B with our first night in SA at Goble Palms.

And to round off another great mini holiday within a holiday, we had a great meal at a local game lodge – overlooking the waterhole, as the sun went down, with hippos, water buck and wildebeest wandering around.

Tough to leave the place but drove 5 hours back to Somerset West via the mountains, gorges and deserts and then a bit more boring bit of farmland for the final 2 hours.

1 day to go and “do” Cape Town.