Table Mountain - Round 2

On Sunday morning, we decided to climb up Table Mountain, again. We woke up early and to our joy - clear skies! This time we climbed up a different route called Indian Venster. The 'path' goes straight up under the cable car and then wraps around the mountain to the Camps Bay side. The first section was by far the hardest as it consisted of a set of about a million stairs that go straight up the mountain.  Any spring that you may have had in your step when you started is vanquished by about the tenth step, along with any "energy" which you thought you had. (Please note that the smiles in these pictures are staged).

Half-way up

Craig and Willow

The silly, steep stairs are over, hooray!

Craig and Lyndall (these smiles aren't staged, they're fit enough to enjoy the walk) 

The group: Mel, Ross, Sam, Kevin, Craig, Willow and Lyndall taking the photo 

Crazy much? These rock climbers are hard core!

The City Bowl view

Rock climbing - there were chains in some places to help you up

The Camps Bay view

Or up!!!

Done

When we reached the top, we stopped for a picnic. The view was much better this time, forget Camps Bay, we could see all the way to Cape Point!

Cape point in the distance

Where we're going!

We felt that we had done well walking up for a second time in one week, so we caught the cable car down while the rest of the group walked down Platteklip. Taking the cable car down also allowed us to reflect on the path we took to get up the mountain, we were impressed!

Some of the stairs on the path we walked up

Where we walked (smudges from the cable car)

After a strenuous morning (which despite what we said at the top of the post, we thoroughly enjoyed), we went back to Lyndall and Craig's house, had a swim, some lunch and then an afternoon nap. We had a lovely farewell braai with them and were packed and ready to leave in the morning.