Table Mountain

The conference finished a bit early so we were able to rush and go up Table Mountain before the last car ascended. The cable car had been closed due to strong winds most of the week. We went with Andrus Meiner who works for the European Union Environment Agency in Copenhagen.

The mountain top is over 1000 m above sea level and the cable car starts about half way up. The floor rotates so everyone gets a 360 degree view on the way up or down.

This is a view of the eastern end of Table Mountain with the upper cable car station on top of the second point from the right.

A view from the cable car looking down.

A view from the cable car looking up

The cable car system was designed in Switzerland.

This little animal is a dossie, it is related to the elephant. There is a display of the two skeletons here at Addo.

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From the top there are marvellous views and it was a warm sunny day without too much wind. You could see for miles although there was some haze in the northerly direction obscuring the Cape fold mountains in the distance. The pictures are of along the coast towards the Cape of Good Hope, of the other mountains to the left and right of Table Mountain, Devil’s Peak and Lion’s Head, the football stadium built for the World Cup and Table Bay.

The view towards Cape of Good Hope which is around to the left and not visible.

Devil's Peak with the cape fold mountains in the background.

Lion's Head

The football stadium built for the World Cup

Table Bay

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This was our last night in Cape Town and we watched the sunset on Cape Town from the lower cable car station.

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