On the summit!

So we finally made it up the mountain!

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May 18th 2009
So yesterday it decided to clear up and we took the gondola up to the summit of Table Mountain (1085 ft). It was so gorgeous- it was still really cloudy up there so we were wandering around in the clouds and sometimes they would clear and we could see down below. My pictures don't do it justice at all. And it was way foggy, so they are kind of crappy. But oh well- it was gorgeous. And I'll be ... read more

Africa » South Africa

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more