Our last day in Cape Town also included a drive through of the Malay part of the city, predominantly Muslim, with very dramatic colors on the houses. A couple of the mosques looked like they had been converted from churches. The square where our last B&B was had some very cute cafes and boutiques.
Because our flight from Cape Town Jo'burg was at 7:00 am and our flight from Jo'burg to London wasn't until 8:45 pm we decided to rent a car and drive west of Jo'burg to the Cradle of Humanity area. Several excavations here, starting in 1947, have uncovered many fossils in the limestone caves that run under the grasslands. The most famous, nicknamed Mrs. Ples is a skull dating back 2.5 million years. The displays give a time line of the discoveries of various types of pre-Homo Sapiens that put evolution in a very vivid perspective. Another location has an almost Disney-like ride in an underground raft that ends in a great interactive museum that tries to explain what it is to be human. It's an on-site evolutionary science museum.
On the base of the statue of Cecil Rhodes in the Cape Town gardens the inscription, I guess a quote, reads "Your Hinterland is there". We're still trying to figure that one out.
When we turned in our trusty Ford we noted that the odometer had turned 5800 km or 3292 miles! Yes, that's a trip across the U.S.