Cape Agulhas - or in Portuguese Cabo das Agulhas ( Cape of the Needle) ...so-called because early sailors found no declination between true north and magnetic north on their compasses at this spot.

It is the geographic southern tip of the African continent and the official point where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet.

The seas around Cape Agulhas are very treacherous and have caused many ship wrecks. This led to a lighthouse being built in 1848, this being only the second one to be built in the country after the Green Point Lighthouse in Cape Town. It is still a working lighthouse - as well as a national monument, and our climb to the top of the lighthouse gave us a bird's eye view of the Tip, and the breathtaking landscape around us.