Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve 
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The coast road runs down to the south end of the Cape Peninsula, which was declared a nature reserve in 1939 in order to protect the flora and fauna against over-development
Within this area of 8000 ha/20,000ac, with a coastline of 40km/25mi, live a great variety of animals, including antelopes, bonteboks, ostriches, warthogs, mountain zebras, lynxes, otters and baboons. The baboons tend to force their attentions on visitors, who should on no account feed them. Off the coast can be seen whales, dolphins and seals. The reserve also contains some 1,200 species of plants typical of the Cape, including proteas and various types of heath. But it is not so much the flora and fauna that attract more than 400,000 visitors to the southwestern tip of Africa every year as the grandiose scenery and the feeling that they are standing on one of the world's great historic spots.
The main road runs south through the nature reserve to Cape Point, the most southerly point of the peninsula.
Within this area of 8000 ha/20,000ac, with a coastline of 40km/25mi, live a great variety of animals, including antelopes, bonteboks, ostriches, warthogs, mountain zebras, lynxes, otters and baboons. The baboons tend to force their attentions on visitors, who should on no account feed them. Off the coast can be seen whales, dolphins and seals. The reserve also contains some 1,200 species of plants typical of the Cape, including proteas and various types of heath. But it is not so much the flora and fauna that attract more than 400,000 visitors to the southwestern tip of Africa every year as the grandiose scenery and the feeling that they are standing on one of the world's great historic spots.
The main road runs south through the nature reserve to Cape Point, the most southerly point of the peninsula.
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View over the Cape of Good Hope.
