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Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Cape Peninsula, South AfricaThere are seven Floral Kingdoms throughout the whole world and Cape Town possesses one, the tiniest one.

Fynbos on Cape Peninsula, South AfricaIt is a World Heritage Site and made up mostly of fynbos which grow in the poor soil from Table Mountain Sandstone.

 

Cycads on Cape Peninsula, South AfricaThe Kistenbosch National Botanical Gardens is a delightful place to see these beautiful plants. Around 28 different indigenous cycad species are found here some dating back to the dinosaurs. Wonderful and unique sculptures also grace this garden.Sculptures on Cape Peninsula, South Africa


Two lighthouses sit on the most south western point of Africa, Cape Good Hope. A cog takes one up the hill nearly to the Old Lighthouse which was often shrouded in clouds thus making the construction of a lower one necessary.

Lighthouse on Cape Peninsula, South AfricaThe point of this peninsula is a nature reserve thus home to a number of beautiful wild flowers and wild animals.

Jackass pinguins on Cape Peninsula, South AfricaUp the road a bit, is Simon Town where there is a colony of jackass penguin so named because they sound like the braying of a jackass.

 

Jackass pinguinThese are smaller penguins than the Emperor Penguins of the Antarctica but the only penguins outside of Antarctica.

 

 

 

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