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Table Mountain travel info Flanked by Devil's Peak and Lion's Head, Table Mountain is majestically dominating the Peninsula's northern skyline. It raises 1 086 metre above the bay with its flat summit measuring nearly 3 kilometre from end to end and on clear days, it can be seen about 200 kilometres out to sea.
A trip up the cableway takes about five minutes and provides easy and safe access to the mountain. The cableway is operative throughout the year subject to good weather conditions. There are splendid viewing points, a restaurant and a souvenir shop on the summit.
There are hundreds of known paths on Table Mountain for walking and hiking, some fairly undemanding, others exceptionally difficult - and it is only too easy to lose your way, which can prove disastrous if the weather suddenly takes a turn for the worse. The mountain is riddled with some very interesting sandstone caves, some of which can be explored with a minimum of equipment.
Table Mountain National Park stretches all the way along the Cape Peninsula to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. The Cape Peninsula is a slender 460km2 promontory curving into the sea at the extreme southwestern corner of the African Continent. Its western and eastern shorelines are graced by attractive little (and some not so little) residential and resort centres that are a magnet for holidaymakers, boating enthusiasts, scuba divers, surfers, sun worshippers.
Popular belief has it that it is the dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian oceans, but the technical separation occurs farther to the east, at Cape Agulhas - Africa's most southerly point. The confusion, though, is understandable: the waters off the Peninsula's western coast are markedly cooler than those that lap the eastern shores, and when you stand atop Cape Point, the massively impressive buttress at the southern end, you can actually see the interaction of two great ocean currents- the tropically warm Agulhas and Antarctic -chilled Benguela.
Wildlife
You should see: Bontebok, grysbok, duiker, mongoose, baboons, baboon, penguins, darters,
You may see: caracal, otter, porcupine, tortoise, rock-rabbit, whales, dolphins, seals.
Flora
Almost every one of the Peninsula's nearly 3 000 species of indigenous flora is found on the slopes and plateau of the mountain.
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