Never more south

Cape Agulhas

Some days, you must drive, drive, drive to get closer to your destination. We had booked nights in Addo Elephant national park weeks ago. So we knew we only had two more nights and hundreds of kilometres to go.

After a slim breakfast in Hermanus hostel and a stop at the grocery store, we headed to the southernmost point of Africa, Cape Agulhas, where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet.

We got there by driving along the coast and by rolling on dirt roads. Yeah, dirt roads in Africa, in a very compact car... That's it!

That allowed us to be alone on a large beach in Die Dam and to experiment my talent at driving a stick without endangering a whole nation.

Cape Agulhas wasn't too crowded. You spend a couple of minutes there and you just want to move on. Interesting thing : that is where we saw a guy who had crossed the whole continent on his motorcycle. Impressive.

One hint : don't keep your hunger to eat at the southernmost point of Africa. The restaurants there are not worth it.

From there, we moved on to Bontebok national park, where antelopes are the main attraction. There again, I could practice my driving while my copilote and professor was helping. But hey, how would it matter that I stalled two or three times if I was learning with the mountains looming, while spingboks were looking?

Thanks to our GPS, we made it to Mossel Bay, where a hostel employee/resident/patient(?) screamed at us in afrikaan while the night was taking its rights. In that little beautiful city, in the shadow of powerplants, one point of interest is well hidden on a quay that looks really industrial.

Kaai 4 cooks everything on a grill. It's a good place to try a traditionnal braai (barbecue). Obviously an attraction in itself. Worth a detour.