Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

This is our fourth trip to South Africa and third to Cape Town and we still hadn’t been up Table Mountain. We fixed that on Friday.

When we lived in Korea with all these South Africans we heard a lot about table mountain and to be honest I never really understood the fascination. I thought it sounded nice and the pictures looked beautiful but how spectacular can a flat mountain be? Let me just say it lived up to its hype.

Table mountain is one of those things that you just end up staring at. It’s omnipresent; you can see it almost everywhere you go. The clouds seem to play on top of it. From Bloubergstrand it gives the impression that it’s an island but really the city surrounds it’s base.

We bought our tickets and got in line. It took quite a while to get through but that was probably just poor planning on our part as when we were leaving there was no line at all. The kids loved the cable car ride but found it quite windy at the top (which it was). We had some lunch did a little tour around the top and headed down.

I’m glad we finally made it up to the top of the mountain but I think to fully appreciate it one should hike either up or down or at the very least spend some time exploring at the top. Next time!