The Cape of Good Hope is an international icon of great historical interest. Together with Cape Horn, the most southerly tip of the Americas, every schoolboy's atlas marks the southern most tip of Africa as "The Cape of Good Hope" or "le Cap du Bonne Esperance" or perhaps many other descriptive terms.  They all reflect the "Good Hope" that the sailors of the sailing ships of old once looked upon with great relief in the knowledge that  they had arrived at not only one of the most beautiful places on earth, but also that fresh food and water would soon be available to them.

Synonymous with the Cape of Good Hope is the Cape's world famous Table Mountain , the majestic form of which overshadows the modern City of Cape Town and Table Bay. Today Table Mountain also gives its name to the Table Mountain National Park , a declared World Heritage Site,  which will ultimately comprise of 3/4 of the Cape Peninsula, stretching from Cape Town to Cape Point, a distance of about 70 Km . The Park is at the remarkable heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom, by far the smallest but most diverse of the World's Floral Kingdoms having the greatest of all floral biodiversity.