Just a couple weekends after hiking Devil’s Peak we organized a trip up Table Mountain, a large, flat mountain that overlooks all of Cape Town. We started in the Kirstebosch Botanical Gardens which was actually kind of cool because South Africa has a very large number of plants that exist nowhere else in the world. We then proceeded up Skeleton Gorge and after about 4-5 hours of hiking reached the cable car station at the top. We didn’t have time to visit the absolute highest point on the Table (it is a huge plateau), ... (more)