Your Retirement Haven Under The Watchful Eye Of Table Mountain Cape Town
Since the first adventurers lay eyes on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, this mountain has kept everybody mesmerized - everybody who comes near it, looks at it, climbs it or has done the trip the Table Mountain cableway. Imagine being able to spend your retirement close to picture post card views of South Africa’s Table Mountain - a likely prospect if you opt for the planned Sea Lodge Luxury Apartments.
Local politicians like Jan Smuts contemplated the future whilst watching the hustle and bustle of city life far below (others continue that tradition up to the present day). Lovers still find quiet space up there that augments their sense of something special. Tourists stand around breathless in reaction to the immense ocean that weave away over the horizon, and locals laze away stolen private time. There are various telescopes on the mountain to view Cape Town, Table Bay, False Bay and Robben Island.
The mountain is alive at all times. People are doing their own thing, but so is the abundant wild life, shying away from human beings invading their space. There is a great variety of wild flowers and “fynbos” (about 1470 different species of plants and some of them only to be found on Table Mountain). Visitors in a hurry will miss the quiet beauty that doesn’t shout, that whispers it’s way.
Over 16 million people have already visited Table Mountain, Cape Town. The cable cars in flight up and down are adding to that figure endlessly. More than 600 000 thousand visitors have been carried up and down per year since the start in 1929. The Table Mountain cableway must be one of the most well-known tourist attractions in the world.
The summit of the mountain is about 1080 square metres and quite flat at the top. From side to side it is about 3 kilometres. The more energetic visitors will find about 350 different walking trails, all of them providing breathtaking views - but some should not be explored without an informed guide. A glass of wine at the restaurant on top during a summer sunset will not be easily forgotten. Few visitors come away without the feeling that the soul of this mountain has bestowed something lasting to their consciousness.
On the other side of the mountain, one will find the Table Mountain National Park that stretches from Signal Hill to Cape Point in the south. Views of beautiful valleys, False Bay, soaring cliffs with the huge variety in fauna and flora will entice the visitor time after time.
At the end of every visit, most men and women turn away from this spectacular beauty with one last glance towards Robben Island where Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s most beloved leaders, spent decades in jail and left the island as a sage.
The best point to view Table Mountain is most likely from Bloubergstrand and owners of the luxurious apartments at Sea Lodge, to be build in 2009 will most likely have an unbeatable view of this famous Mountain.
Why rely on a South African Table Mountain post card, if you can see its wonder with your own eyes, day after day?
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