A climber at rest, some 3000 feet above Cape Town, South Africa.

The view from the top is no less than spectacular, as you would imagine it would be — or at least it is if fog hasn’t “socked it in,”  blocking the scenery of the city below.

Looking out at Cape Town from the top of Table Mountain

But it’s the descent that brings you back to earth.  A slow, crowd-quiet descent that follows the spectacle left behind — one of the New7Wonders of Nature — and a peak to which you may never be so fortunate to return to again.  The descent from Table Mountain literally and figuratively took our breath away. We had indeed been to the mountain top!

Descent via Table Mountain Aerial Cableway

For more entries in the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent, travel here.

For more information:

New7Wonders of Nature: http://www.tablemountain.net/content/page/new7wonders-of-nature

Table Mountain Aerial Cableway: http://www.tablemountain.net/

Cape Town: Official Tourism Website: http://www.capetown.travel/attractions/entry/table_mountain_cableway

For more on our travels in South Africa, click on the Page called Lesotho and South Africa.