Thirty-four degrees of latitude south. Very comfortable near-bottom tip of the African Continent. South of it is a maritime void that drops all the way to Antarctica. Ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope probably do so in an affectionate fashion, keeping land in sight, wary of open seas. Nearby, they know, the mighty Atlantic and Indian Oceans collide. And the skies there, where no landmass remains, are surely empty too, exempt of air traffic; why would there be any? This is a space that leads nowhere, that just doesn’t fit on known lines from A to B. It would seem the southern tip of Africa has two faces, one purely geographic and the other popularly romantic. Technically, the actual southernmost point is located some 200 km to the southeast of Cape Town and called Cape Agulhas. An extension of Africa’s gigantic landmass, that cape is wide and rather boring looking—on a map at least. But if like me, you are a dreamer and cherish fractured memories of the adventures of <I>Tintin et les cigares du Pharaon</I> or those stories of the Flying Dutchman, you’ll ignore the previous coldly geographical truth and let yourself believe that in fact, the more famous Cape of Good Hope is as far south as one can venture in Africa without dropping off into the ocean. Hanging from the bottom of the Cape Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope is much sexier than Cape Agulhas. Slender or even narrow, cliffy, dominated by a white lighthouse, inhabited by herds of antelopes and part of the Table Mountain National Park, the Cape is so close to Cape Town it can easily be visited in a half-day excursion. It isn’t truly the southern tip of the continent and if one could see that far, the landmass of Cape Agulhas would loom in the distance to the east and the south but since it’s out of sight, it’s also out of mind. The biodiversity on the Cape Peninsula is extraordinary, so much so that the Cape Floral Kingdom—one of six kingdoms worldwide to define geographical flower arrangements, so to speak—is the smallest but richest of all six. One big flower bouquet at the foot of Africa. Table Mountain National Park is a very popular tourist destination, as one could imagine, and even away from Table Mountain, the road going through the southern part towards Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope is a rather busy artery winding through a large plateau covered with fynbos and inhabited by baboons, ostriches, bokkies and mountain zebras.