A day David Attenbourgh would have been proud of.
Trip Start
Oct 13, 2011
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Trip End
May 19, 2012
Cape point, Western Cape, South Africa
Sunday, November 6, 2011
The next stop was to see the penguins not in a zoo or the Arctic but on a beautiful warm white sand tropical beach. The penguins are very protected and there are road signs to warn of penguins as they sometimes go for walks around the town and even into peoples houses. If you do hit a penguin with your car you get a 3000 rand fine (£300) and they will catch you due to penguin CCTV. It should have used the penguin crossing is no excuse.
Included in the tour was a bike ride, where the bus dropped you off at one point and drove on 5km to start preparing lunch. It was a beautiful bike ride in the National Park with a mass of plants and small bushes (the biggest variety in the world of small bushes). We obviously found the bike ride pretty easy with only small hills, however 2 Japanese guys who clearly could barely ride the bikes struggled, having to get off every few minutes to push and when they were on the bikes their route was far from straight.
The final stop was the Cape of good hope the most south westerly point of Africa. We climbed the peninsula's 300m cliffs and watched the massive waves crash against them. The water was cold as it had come from the first of the seasons melting of the Antarctica ice cap before crashing into Africa. The air at the point is said to be the most fresh air in the world as it as blown without crossing human pollution all the way from Antarctica. We were pretty knackered after our first day in South Africa.
Comments
Sounds absolutely idyllic; what is the temperature generally. What's next?
wow sounds incredible