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After filling all the paper forms, we discovered the Ferrari... a red Sparklite Chevy in which we needed to move the backseat to put our luggages in. And the biggest joy for someone who only drives automatic cars : finding out it's a manual car. That gave me ten days to learn... with a steering wheel on the right in a country where people drive on the left.
As excited as we were, we first stopped in Hout Bay, a cute and small village with a port on the bay. It was our first incursion on a south african beach and it was enough to be blown away.
It was also our first occasion to eat line fish, some cape salmon. Calamari, mussles and oysters were also on the menu.
From there, we drove to Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope, along the coast. The drive is very similar to the Great Ocean Road in Australia. It makes you want to stop often just to smell the coastal wind.
Cape of Good Hope, the southwestern tip of Africa, offers tons of possibilities for hikers. We just decided to walk up to the lighthouse of Cape Point, where a bird targeted me again, and we walked to the cape itself. It was the first time we saw dassies and some kind of big antelopes.
As the sun was going down already, we figured we needed to start moving east. So we stopped in Simon's Town, where you can see penguins colonies.
What is nice is they charge a fee to see THE rock where most of the penguins gather. But along the coast, these animals are everywhere. For free...
It's when we stopped at one of those beaches to see penguins we found out about the parking employees, everywhere in the Cape area, who watch the cars hoping for tip.
In the end, we drove for endless hours to Hermanus, the city we had chosen to sleep in, hoping to find two beds in a hostel. Chance was on our side and we got a whole dorm for ourselves. Despite the fact it was late. First stop, first success.
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