The REAL southernmost point of Africa

 For some reason, Cape of Good Hope near Cape Town is known as the southernmost point in Africa as well as the place where the two oceans - Atlantic and Indian - meet. Nevertheless, this is not correct. You only need to look at the map of South Africa to realise that Cape Agulhus is located much further south, around 150 km south-east from Cape of Good Hope. This is also the approximate place where the warm Agulhus current from Indian Ocean and the cold Benguela current from the Atlantic Ocean meet.


Cape Agulhus was our second destination in South Africa after the lovely Hermanus town. It's a fair drive from Cape Town - 170km on empty roads through winelands, fields and featurless grass until you come up to the town of Agulhus. It is stunning. I have never seen any sea or ocean in such a light shimmering shade of blue. It was accentuated even more by the clear blue sky that awaited us. And I wished I had planned at least an overnight stop here not just a few hours.
The Cape Agulhus itself greets you with a lovely towering lighthouse that used to warn sailors of its rocky shores. And the shores are indeed rocky here, big boulders with jagged edges are reaching up towards the sky making it hard for walkers to reach the water as well as making it hazardous for any sailor to pass the cape or to get ashore in case of a disaster. Hence this part of the coast is littered with ship wrecks.

We might not have spent much time in Cape Agulhus but it was enough to make me want more, and I will undoubtedly return here on the next trip. There is an unstated beauty here.