Taking the Baviaanskloof/Gamtoos off-ramp from the N2, 40 km. from Port Elizabeth, the westward bound R331 takes the traveler through an area sometimes known as the "valley of a thousand and one hills".
The route offers a panoramic view of the Eland and Groot Winterhoek Mountains dominated by the 1 759 meter high Cockscomb Mountain known to earlier tribes as T'Muniqua, meaning "covered in clouds". The road leads past the town of Loerie, through Hankey (established 1881) and Patensie, along the thriving citrus farms of the Gamtoos valley, past the turn-off to the Kouga Dam towards Komdomo, which is the Eastern entrance and gateway to the Baviaanskloof Mega-reserve.
