There's something about the hulk of a mountain. All that land soaring up into the space where the sky should be; it's magnetic.
In Cape Town, Table Mountain is the undisputed star, soaring above the city’s skyline with her sister peaks of Lion’s Head and Signal Hill playing entourage. It’s the biggest attraction that most visitors check off in the Mother City, like London’s Big Ben. Then there’s Robben Island, the tiny islet on which the late Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years, now a major tourist site. The South African city is also on the backpacker trail, the last and arguably glitziest metropolis on the African continent before the icy wilds of Antarctica.
