Tired as hell from the sleepless night, and the packing and everything, I felt I still needed to do something nice with the rest of the day, so at 5pm I decided to head up to Table Mountain to watch the sunset over the ocean.

A bus gets you up to the cable car station, which was more crowded than I thought, as many tourists like to view the sunset. Good thing is: after 6pm it’s half price.

The sun made a spectacle, sinking into the ocean hidden in a stretch of clouds… it sometimes looked like a nuclear explosion in slow motion….

 

The views are stunning indeed, the mountain is, well, flat as a table and easy to walk on, with walks ranging from 15 to 45 minutes.

While it was crawling with tourists in certain, popular sunset spots, but otherwise people quickly lost themselves on the plain and it was eerily quiet.

I should have packed something for a picnic, and a warmer sweater. I didn’t stay till the night fell and missed the night view on Cape Town below, but it just got too freezing, and as I still have my summer cold with a runny nose, I decided not to risk it.

The view on Cape Town below is great, I saw my former house in Bo Kaap from above, the Lion’s head between me and Signal Hill with its canon, downtown, the new soccer stadium, as well as the harbor and the long stretched out beaches along the coast up north.

I might go up again to enjoy the night a bit longer…