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See Africa’s Cape of Ghosts; Incomparable Beauty, Mystery and Tragedy

Its beauty is mesmerizing. Drive with me along South Africa’s rugged coastline to the Cape of Good Hope. Before “Good Hope”, the Cape was actually known as the “Cape of Storms”. Aptly named by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, the first European to discover the Cape in 1488 for the rough tides and heavy storms that could, and often did, tear ships into pieces. And as if the waters didn’t provide …