Quick – what’s the southern-most point of Africa? Cape of Good Hope? Cape Point? Something else? If you’ve acquired at least a middle school education,, chances are you think the answer is the Cape of Good Hope. You’re wrong, though. No, no, the most southern tip of Africa is apparently Cape Agulhas. That doesn’t make the visit to the Cape of Good Hope any less spectacular, though.

My second day in town and we hit the ground running with a tour around the Western Cape. We toured a township and watched kids do some of the most amazing hip-hop dancing that I’ve ever seen. We saw the penguins (pictures later), and floated around the V&A Waterfront. We rode the “most beautiful highway in the world,” and stared in awe as the misty clouds cleared over the coves.

Wow.

And then we visited the Cape of Good Hope, where we hiked a few miles. The orientation program was pretty unclear when they told us what we would be doing, so who showed up wearing Topsiders? This guy. Who wound up hiking in boat shoes? This guy. At least I didn’t wind up in flip-flops like some kids, but still. Rough break all the way around.

Regardless, pictures will be up when I find it in my heart to spend an arm and a leg on bandwidth (oh yes, it’s pay-per-megabyte here). You can’t imagine how gorgeous it was.

edit: photo is here.

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