We pack after an enjoyable breakfast. This has been an enjoyable stay over 2 nights here in the scenic township of Himeville. We decide to sit in the lounge of the hotel using wi-fi and sending emails then depart the township at 10.15am and travel through some amazingly beautiful farming and agricultural land before we are due to climb into the hills. We have a 4 hour drive with a stopover for lunch at a petrol station and fill the BMW with diesel and enjoy a light meal.

The morning involved some off road driving before we got back to the highway, but since it has been an interesting and varied drive through stunning scenery which only gets better following lunch.

Jeanette drives the afternoon and goes really well apart from "flying" over a cattle grate on our way through the foot hills to Cathedral Peak.

Our arrival involves coming through 3 different security gates, but we eventually arrive at a spectacular hotel entrance gateway which leads to a superb older style building and reception.

Our check in is smooth. We are in 301 which is a modern room with large bedroom and full ensuite and superb outlook over the valley and the golf course, with stunning mountains circling the valley. The colours change over the afternoon. We drive from irrigation area including corn and dairy cattle to drier beef areas.

The hotel can only be described as spectacular in both location and in presentation.

Dinner tonight is in the formal dining room with a huge open fire. We are seated a a table near the bistro and buffet dinner. Beforehand we stop for a "rock shandy" and gun and tonic in Alber's bar before adjourning to the dining room.

We have unpacked and showered and we have enjoyed an excellent relaxing drive to this superb resort.

Ken takes a variety of photos of the resort and the the mountain range, it is truly just amazing scenery in spectacularly beautiful country side.

Following dinner we get our laundry ready and sent emails.

We awake to a significant change in the weather with heavy rainfall in the early hours of the morning, but this clears before breakfast, but the mountains are shrouded in dense cloud cover.

Breakfast is in the main dining room overlooking the valley and the golf course with the mountains behind. We had determined to drive 45 minutes back into a traditional village to see displays, but there is a forecast that f heavy rainfall this afternoon, so we defer and will instead stay in the hotel and use their excellent facilities.

Ken does visit the hotel golf club, but finds that they don't have balls with logos and so decides against playing. It is very much a challenging social Course with sweeping fairways and wide heavily sloped approaches to small greens. He spends tine talking to several players who are here for the week as a break from Joburg.

Ken is sitting enjoying a cappacino and biscuit on the patio. But it is noticeably cooler and there are showers with heavier rainfall predicted later.