There is something exquisitely beautiful about mountain meeting ocean. Add to those surroundings a sunset sinking into the horizon, creating a ripple of pink hues across the sky and a golden path reaching across the ocean. Now sit back and enjoy. Luckily a place like this exists. It's called Chapman's Peak drive.
Locals take picnic suppers and bottles of wine to be enjoyed as they watch the sun set from here.
Other South Africans just park their cars in the pullouts from the road to marvel at the scene for a few minutes before heading home. On a continent of majestic sunsets, this location rates up there as one of the best spots to witness the splendour of nature. The 10-kilometre drive from Hout Bay to Noordhoek is billed as one of the world's most spectacular drives and it does not disappoint. The whole coastal road south of Cape Town to the Cape of Good Hope peninsula, the most southwesterly point in Africa, is breathtaking, but the Chapman's Peak section is particularly beautiful. The cliff-side drive climbs to 600 metres above the pounding surf of the ocean.