Today's the day we say goodbye to my family after 10 weeks and move on to the next stage in our journey! We had to be at the Nomad Adventure office in central Cape Town for 8am and this meant getting up early to avoid the rush hour traffic. We left the farm at 6am but we were lucky, the early morning traffic was only just getting going and we managed to avoid most of it and arrived an hour early, time to drop off our bags and go for a Wimpy breakfast! Anthon...

Kromrivier literally means Crooked River in Afrikaans and is a very special hiking area Michelle was keen to take us to before leaving South Africa. It involves walking up a kloof (literally translates as "gap" but is actually a sort of valley) in the Cederberg Mountain Range behind Paarl. For the most part the mountains themselves look pretty samey. Don't get me wrong, they are certainly imposing and impressive and when the sunlight reflects off the rock at...