One of the new 7 wonders of nature

Two ticked off, five to go.

Today after an interesting free guided tour around the city bowl we grabbed our hiking boots and traipsed up the wonder that is Table Mountain. All lies we caught the cable car!

This is my favourite shot with the view of Camps Bay. I can't remember many of the facts but I do remember this tale told by the guide but reworded by Wikipedia to save me typing:

The English term Devil's Peak is a 19th-century translation from the Dutch Duiwels Kop, and supposedly comes from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the Devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain, forming the table cloth cloud.

If you look at the mountain from Camps Bay, Table Mountain looks like a person lying on its back. Devils Peak forms the head.

After seeing Camps Bay from above, we bought yet another Christmas tree decoration and headed down to the beach to get South African sand between our toes for the last time. Most definitely one of my top five favourite beaches.

The boy had to get the obligatory photo of him outside a football stadium, then a quick shop at the V&A mall and a soak in the bath with yet another bottle of red before dinner.

We didn't venture far as the Indian restaurant in our hotel had a tasting menu that was too hard to resist. After four or so courses I was fit to bust, literally and had to get dessert sent to the room (not being a quitter) so I could lie down. There goes our night on the town in the City Bowl. Upset to have wasted our last night in Cape Town due to overeating we took to our beds.