South Africa

After more than twenty different countries, I finally crossed the border into South Africa. The northern part is dry savannah and not very different to most of Namibia.

 But where there is water for irrigation, the smooth bottoms of the valleys are ideal for agriculture. There were fields of vines, and orchards of apples, limes and apricots.

 Further south there are wheat fields.

 A railway snaking its way along the valley side.

 We passed Cape Town to get to the very bottom of the continent at Cape Agulhas, Portuguese for Needles as their compass needles still pointed north even this far south in the southern hemisphere.

 A view of the seaward face of the lighthouse with the sun behind.

 Some of the history of the light house.

 And then the monument at the very southern tip of the continent.

 And the southernly most iconic monument, a relief map of the continent.

 And some of the unusual flowers that grow in the park.