Cape Town-Table Mountain

We went to Table Mountain on our second last day. Picture on the left shows names of the other mountains beside it. I think the most scenic was the 12 apsotles' mountain range. The trip from the hotel took about 30 mins (?) its pretty lucky we could get to the peak during winter because most of the time it gets cloudy and thy have to close it to visitors.
Its very cold here, even at the base of the mountain. i had to use gloves and a hat and i had about 3 layers of clothes on. If the peak is not too cloudy, you can get a beautiful view of all of Cape town, including Robben island. The ride up the mountain is pretty steep, so if ur kinda scared of heights like me, u wouldn't want to look straight down at the mountain. I focused looking at the town and sea instead. Most of the time when i take the cable car, i always have this thought at the back of my head that the line would snap and the car would fall down and crash (yikes!!!).


You can see that i look pretty miserable there. How to take a picture in the friggin' cold?? haha, anyway above is a picture of Lion's Head with Robben Island in the distance.





Smoking is strictly prohibited here as they are worried about the bush fires. A year before i went there some people who were drunk threw cigarettes and there was quite a big bush fire (i was told) resulting in this black landscape of bushes. The vegetation should be back to normal by now.






At the peak, there is a small cottage where you can have a snack and buy souvenirs. There are also one or two trails where you can walk around the entire peak. There is also a monument (?) at the center where you can see a map of Africa, and how far South Africa is from other major cities around the world. We spent about 30-40minutes here as it got very foggy.






This is the view of Cape Town from Table Mountain. I have to say, the views here are spectacular. i could spend 2-3 hours at the peak just taking photos from here.