Table Mountain and Kirstenbosch

View from the Cable Car
A hairy baboon on Table Mountain (extremely rare sighting)
Silvertree
Guinea Fowl
Camphor trees (from China and Japan, but still beautiful)

Another beautiful Cape Town day Sinead and I rode the cable car up Table Mountain. We would have climbed it, but we weren't feeling so hard core that day (we might still do it later). Once we were up there we walked through some beautiful gorges and took in views of the whole peninsula. Later that day we went to the Kirstenbosch botanic gardens, which are most likely the best botanic gardens in the world, because instead of just being a stuffy collection of plants there are great trails through thick bush and woods and you can pretty much go whereever you want, including all the way up Table Mountain. Sinead and I especially liked the native plants like the silver tree, the waboom, and the forest fig (an enormous tree with beautiful bark). The Cape has this unique flora called fynbos that is found nowhere else on Earth, and it is fascinating to look at some of the crazy shapes and colors of this stuff. Unfortunately exotic species are a big problem here, but the garden does a great job of preserving and exhibiting native South African plants