Arrived in Africa!
Trip Start
Jun 19, 2009
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Trip End
Aug 30, 2009
Cape Town,
Western Cape,
South Africa
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Just waiting on my room to be sorted at Big Blue backpackers then will have a look at going up table top mountain and going for a walk down to the water front. Nice sunny day so from the sounds of it I need to make the most of it.
Looks like the tour group is going to be a bit smaller than I imagined, there's only 6 names on the board at the moment! Will be interesting to see how that pans out. Likely that others will join at later stages I guess.
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Went up Table Top mountain this afternoon. When I got there the top was covered in clouds so I was a bit dubious about going up though the guy at the desk said that it was coming and going. Decided to go up anyway which turned out to be the right choice. Took the cable car as wasn't quite up for a big hike after the flight. On the way up we actually passed through the clouds and the top was sunny. By the time I got down there wasn't a cloud in site.
The top is actually a national park and quite impressive in it's own. Was quite pleasant walking around the top listening to all the frogs and insects chirping away. The part closest to the harbour side has some seriously steep drops that the path goes right next; it just drops right away. There's warnings about not doing it when it's windy and I can understand why.
You can also abseil from the top - apparently it's the highest commercial abseil - and there were some people doing that when I got up there. Looked like you'd get a serious adrenalin rush doing it as it's a long long way down and the only way to get there was to climb down to the starting point.
