Table Mountain - Tafelberg

As you can see on the background of the first picture (taken at the arrival of the ladies' team of the Volvo Ocean Race 4 days ago  in Cape Town), the Table Mountain is flat, very flat, hence the name "Table".  You can go to the top with a cable car or on foot. Someone (who probably reads this blog by now) told us it would take 45 minutes, someone else told me weeks ago it would take 3 to 4 hours, the guy we asked at the cable car entrance told us 2 hours . So ..... the verdict is ... 2 hours indeed, which is pretty slow. Nearly everyone passed us but, we did it !!!

Sur l'arriere de la photo : la fameuse Table Mountain, depuis 2011 une des 7 nouvelles merveilles naturelles du monde. Il a fallu 2 heures pour arriver au sommet via un sentier digne des randonnees alpestres (5 minutes en telepherique)

In 1601 the Dutch navigator Van Spilbergen thought the mountain ressembled a table and called the bay Tafel Baay ( he must have been hungry that day). The first European to climb the mountain is Van Riesbeeck, the one in charge of creating/building the trading post in the Bay - in 1652.

Table mountain is one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature , voted in 2011.     http://world.new7wonders.com/new7wonders-of-nature/the-new7wonders-of-nature/

Vegetation is the typical cape FYNBOS

Off we go ..... c'est parti mon kiki

All the way up to the arrow 

The arrow shows the path - suivez la fleche 

And then on the top ... really flat / le sommet bien plat en effet

picnic

 View to the south : left the Pacific Ocean, right the Atlantic Ocean

View to the north : Cape town

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