Table Mountain National Park

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Table Mountain

Travel guide extract in Frommers Guide about Table Mountain from Sep 2007

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Author:     Pippa de Bruyn Date posted: 02.09.2007 20:18 Found by: Jamie73, Dover

This is Cape Towns most famous landmark.The mountain is a massive slab of slate, sandstone and granite which was formed initially some 250 millions tears ago. This landmark as been added into the Cape Peninsula National Park.The author explains how this will give it " the highest level of protection", the park lets Cape Town have the benefit of over 14000 acres of wilderness.

The author gives the opinion that the" best view of the mountain is from Table Bay" and here you are able to "get some idea of the relative size of the mountain".There is another glorious view of the Twelve Apostles which we are informed by the author that they are " kissed by the sun's last rays". The other interesting fact that we are told about is the "plant varieties (some 1,470 species) than the entire British Isles".

You can access the mountain on foot or you can take the cable car, and once there we are told that you can "spend a few hours or an entire day exploring". The Mountain is " 3km (1 3/4 miles) long and 1,086m (3,562 ft.) high". The upper cable station and the restaurant are on the western edge, and from here you ca see the view of the "Twelve Apostles towering over Camps Bay". And also "Cape Town with its water, is a wonderful place to hike", But some of this area is off limits

Travel times for the cable car are "every 15 minutes from the lower station at Tafelberg Road "and this between "8 and 8:30am until between 6 and 9pm, depending on the season".

We are told some of the history of the first cable car which was opened for operation " since 1929 but upgraded in 1997.We are informed that the "afternoons are generally less crowded",and its about a 30 minute wait.

Travel on foot is mostly "via Platteklip Gorge -- the gap is visible from the front, or north face, of the mountain". The weather can sometimes change dramatically and we are told that more "people have died on Table Mountain than on Mount Everest".

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