From Cape Town to Knysna

The route from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth is called Garden Route, because a lot of different climate zones can be found along the route. Our first stop on the way to Port Elizabeth was Knysna. On the way there we passed several different climate sceneries, which looked like Canada, Switzerland, Spain, etc. On one side of the mountain we had wine grapes and just ten minutes later, in the next valley, there were apples and  wheat.

I also made two (well I actually made a lot more, but only two pictures are really usable) photos of a township on the trip to Knysna. One shows the average township in South Africa. It is the one with the metal and wood-based huts. However, as I already mentioned in the blog, the South African government tries to develop these areas. Therefore they help building the people so called slef-starter-homes. These homes are stonewalled huts with a height so that a human can actually stand in them. These homes are design to be extended by additional rooms. Therefore one wall of the hut is prepared to have an extra door. Therefore the bricks are arranged in a way that some of them can be removed without damaging the wall.