Touchdown in the Mother City Breakfast, packing and checking out was leisurely, and we hit the road with the aid of Berk, who knew how to find our next planned destination, Cape Point. Cape Point is the southernmost tip of the Table Mountain Peninsula - not the southernmost tip of Africa, or even where Indian and African oceans meet (as lots of tour blurb says) - but is where two ocean currents meet, and gives a spectacular viewpoint over the seascape and Cape of Good Hope. The drive ended up being fairly long, although we took in a number of sights on the way. These were most notably the townships (‘informal settlements’) around Cape Flats (illustrating a lot of colourful spirit in the face of poverty), and the African Penguin colony at Boulder Beach. These little
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