If you're a South African and in Cape Town on your birthday, Table Mountain gives you a free trip up the mountain in the cable car - isn't that cool? My tip though, don't go early! I know that's contrary to popular wisdom, but the queues early in the day are horrendous - we waited in the sun for 2 hours. Not fun. They have great staff who jolly you along, take photos, find out where you're from (my guess that day 90% were foreign) - good move Cable Car Co, diffuses all that irritation. It's just such a popular destination and the tourists are up early. By the time we got down at about 2.30pm, there was no queue to speak of.
But when you get up there! The views are breathtaking. The trip up only takes a couple of minutes and each of the 2 cable cars carries 65 passengers (800 an hour, so you can just imagine how long the queue was). The floor of the cable car rotates so you get to see all sides.
If you extend your walk a little bit further than the cable car station, you will see Cape Town laid out for you. It's a really good way of getting your bearings in Cape Town, specially when you realise that it's not just one mountain, but a whole range.
The spring flowers are almost over but we did find some arum lilies amongst the rocks.
And the Rock Hyrax was looking for friends They are ridiculously friendly because visitors tend to feed them but they are wild animals.
Initially we had thought that we would walk down, but the long wait in the queue meant we were running late and when we got to the spot overlooking Platteklip Gorge - see the faint zig-zag path leading down the middle of the photo? I was very happy that we were taking the cable car down.
Happy birthday my darling children!
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