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No visit to Cape Town is complete without a trip up Table Mountain, the city's most celebrated landmark. Here, board the Swiss-engineered Rotair cable car and ascend from the Valley Station 1, feet metres to the Mountain Station.
The journey from the base to the summit takes just under 4 minutes and there are spectacular views as the floor of the car rotates degrees during the ascent and descent. Table Mountain gets its name from the flat topped central massif of the mountain, which viewed from the city, is surrounded by Devil's Peak on the left, Lion's Head on the right, and Signal Hill in the foreground. They form a sort of amphitheatre that encloses the city centre and some of the older suburbs.
Other earlier suburbs are on either side of the chain of mountains, which run like a spine through the Cape Peninsula, from Table Mountain to Cape Point - the cape from which Cape Town derives its moniker. From the summit, the natural protected area stretching from Signal Hill to Cape Point has been managed under the custodianship of the National Parks Board. This area has one of the highest concentrations of endemic plant and animal species in any area of its size, containing a staggering 2, plant species, more than that of the entire United Kingdom.
