mitchjet: Cape Town, i'm drowning in your beauty

i'd been excited about visiting South Africa for a while now, but had always heard varying reports about Johannesburg.
Some say it's awesome and a lot of fun, others would say it's boring and dangerous (but danger doesn't sound so boring to me...)

but the reports about Cape Town were unanimously positive:
"pretty", "friendly", "great food", and my favourite: "you'll get killed in jo'burg, but only mugged in Cape Town"

so when i was given a Cape Town trip, i was proper pumped. i was ready to experience the great food, and we all love a bit of prettiness now and then, and Cape Town certainly didn't disappoint. the great food was everywhere, and the prettiness even more so.

i'd done my research about Cape Town and had a vague idea about the things i wanted to see and do, but 24 hours is a remarkably short amount of time and some sacrifices had to be made. That trip to Robben Island to see where Nelson Mandela spent his incarceration would have to wait until i was in Cape Town for a longer period of time, but the cable car ride up to the top of Table Mountain was very achievable.
Starting out bright and early, we made our way to the base of Table Mountain and bought our tickets for the cable car, with the ticket-box lady advising us that visibility up there was quite poor. Not one to be discouraged easily, I still bought my ticket, and my colleagues and i bundled into the cable car.

"Poor" was an understatement when referring to the visibility on the top of Table Mountain that morning, but we can't say we weren't warned. At times, i couldn't see my hand when i held it out in front of my face.
But still, there was something really beautiful/eerie about the atmosphere up there, even if we couldn't see a whole lot. And when we finished touring the top of the mountain and eating some breakfast, the view was amazing as we passed back down through the clouds in our cable car, greeted with the massive panorama of Cape Town in front of us.

When we reached the base again, the ticket-box had closed temporarily, with a sign saying that due to visibility, the cable cars has stopped, so i felt real fortunate that we'd at least been given a chance to get up there and take a look around.

here are the (few) photos: