Saturday – 24/12/2022 | Cape Agulhas

We started the morning early and our first stop as per my mom’s request (iykyk) was Outeniqua Family Market in George. It was very busy and we found one stall selling halaal savouries. My mom bought some homemade strawberry jam and then we left. I’d give this a miss. It was 9am and all I …

Friday – 23/12/2022 | Knysna

We read jummah in Knysna Masjid and then the day began. The biggest tip for Garden Route that we were given is that we should take our own food with. So my mom did. After a quick Jummah lunch of chicken and puri, we were ready to start touring Knysna. When we passed through Knysna …

Thursday – 22/12/2022 | Wilderness and Victoria Bay

We left the Airbnb around 12pm, we genuinely needed to sleep and rejuvenate because it’s been a couple long days. We drove through Knysna and it was fairly quiet. Our first stop was Wilderness. We got off at Wilderness Beach and straight away, it reminded us of Durban. The sand was burning hot, so it …

Wednesday – 21/12/2022 | Jeffrey’s Bay, Stormsriver and Plettenberg Bay

After watching a beautiful sunrise, I went straight back to sleep for about thirty minutes before it was time for breakfast. We had breakfast and afterwards, I was really sad to leave Port Elizabeth. Jeffrey’s Bay is about an hour from Port Elizabeth. We stopped at the Jeffrey’s Bay Beach. It’s a beautiful, clean beach …

Tuesday – 20/12/2022 | Port Elizabeth

We started our day really early and left Bloemfontein around 3:15am. The stars in the Bloemfontein sky were beautiful and bright and made me want to live in a farmhouse so that I see the stars every night. We read fajr on the road and the sunrise brought a whole new day filled with possibility. …