Cape of Good Hope, is my child a place full of endless reverie, not only because of its location, even in its name. In my mind it seems only to Cape of Good Hope had actually been to Africa, because it makes the human opened the sea link between East and West Way. Cape of Good Hope around the world that now also has the name of fact, as good luck associated with the three Portuguese. In 1488 Portuguese navigator Diaz first arrived in southern Africa from west to east around the Cape. Because they encountered stormy seas in the area, Diaz put it named storm angle. But Diaz’s expedition team arrived in India not to complete the voyage. In 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, another around the Cape of Good Hope to complete the search task of the East sea lanes loaded with gold and silver jewelry in 1499 and returned to Lisbon grade silk. The third key figure was the Portuguese King John II, he saw built up around the Cape sea route to Portugal to bring the hope of fortune, named for the Cape Cape of Good Hope.
Cape of Good Hope is located in the southern Cape Peninsula. Cape Peninsula, the landscape isvery unique, cliff, beach, harbor rare plants and animals and the formation of the known world with the most beautiful coastline of the Cape. Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, we are dedicated by the small surface first arrival Cape Point in South Africa, the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve are all part of Table Mountain National Park.
The word Cape in South Africa is a very common geographical term, this is the most beautiful coastline of South Africa. Cape in Chinese means the cliffs into the sea. The coastal features make people have referred the Cape to the area. 1994 years ago in the southern part of South Africa it was known as the Cape administration (Cape Province), then Caibei split into the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape. In the formation of the Federal Republic of South Africa and South Africa before, that is, before the Boer People’s Congress movement, the British colonists first established in southern Africa, Cape Colony. South of the main tourism through the Cape Peninsula, IS now a part of the Western Cape. South Africa’s administrative capital of Cape Town is in fact the meaning of Cape Town. Cape of Good Hope is the first leg of tour CapePoint, usually translated as Cape Point, in fact, the literal translation is the Cape cusp.
Cape Point is a cliff into the sea, 238 meters above sea level. The highest point is a lighthouse built in 1857. Because of their high terrain, weather, rain or mist passing ships could not see the incident or sea, in 1919 at an altitude of 88 meters, a new lighthouse was built here and became the observatory, and is Visitors must do.
Standing on Cape Lookout angle cliff to see the flowers bloom. Many travel books have explained that here is the dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, even when good fortune to see both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean currents share the scene at the intersection here. The continent’s southern tip is Cape Point about 150 km east of the Agulhas angle, where is the real dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Cape Point to the east is the False Bay, with translation into Falls Bay; in fact, it means the wrong Gulf. Before the boat through here, often mistaken around the southern tip of Africa and into the wrong bay. Speed of the ship at that time, this error often makes travel time delay for a week.
Cape of Good Hope from Cape Point to take the path on both sides covered with a variety of rarely seen here in our plant, and some are unique to plants in South Africa. Table Mountain National Park as part of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve is the world’s largest regional plant species, is also included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List of the Cape as part of plant conservation area.
Cape of Good Hope is the first Cape to be seen on a ship from Europe reaching the southern tip of the African continent, was to be mistaken for the southern tip of the African continent. Measured according to the present, Cape of Good Hope is the most southwest corner of the African continent. Maybe because the Cape of Good Hope is known too much, so give it the name of the most southwest bay.
