Table Mountain

Our time at the Bible Institute has been a bit boring, especially in comparison to our time at home-stays. We have finished up our last few class sessions, and papers. On Wednesday we got to hike one of the staples of Cape Town––Table Mountain. Table Mountain, as you can imagine, is this huge mountain right off the coast which goes almost straight up vertical and then at its peak, it flattens out like a table. We hiked up through a valley passage way between the vertical parts from there were able to get to the peaks. Sounds easy, nuh uh! it was one of the most intense hour hike that i have ever been on. In the short hour we scaled 600 meters. It is not like many of the hikes back home where you are on a dirt trail that weaves back at forth, no the Table Mountain trail is stepping up huge stones just going straight up through the valley. At times it did weave back and forth but not for long and it was still always on rocky paths, not dirt. However, once we reached the top, all the struggle was worth it because walking around the mountain top you have a 360 degree view of all of Cape Town. It is absolutely stunning, Cape Town is definitely one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen in my life. I have never seen mountains meeting the waters edge like in Cape Town, they literally are just cliff faces right at the waters edge. Ah! it is so beautiful! if only we weren't homesick and ready to be home we might enjoy even more than we already do! Saturday we are going great white shark cage diving, katie will blog on that! until then!