The Swartland is incredibly beautiful, yet overlooked as it’s an area is named because of its wide fertile plains that after the rains in winter, turn black.  I got to drive through this land when I rented a vehicle from cape town car rental, a land otherwise known as the wheat and rooibos-producing part of the Western Cape.  It begins only 50km’s outside of Cape Town making it accessible to visitors and it’s wheat fields, vineyards and deep river valleys, the topic of many a photographer’s lens.  Many of the vines on the Swartland Wine Route are visibly sign-posted and stretch throughout the region.