The Sunrise Kids
The next day, we woke up early, as per usual, and only had a few interruptions during the night. That's the other thing about hostels: they tend to attract partiers. So we had people just coming in as we were getting up. The other clue was that they serve breakfast until 1pm at the hostel. Anyway, we were up and on the road to table mountain by 8am. The guidebooks and hostel employees said it would take 2-3 hours to hike up. We got to the foot of the mountain and started hiking by about 8:45 and one hour later, we had run out of mounain. It was one of the hardest hikes I've done because it's basically just thousands of steps straight up, but at least it was short. And it was incredibly rewarding. The views from the top are incredible. And there's lots of other trails you can take when you get to the top as well. We added another hour and a half to our hike by hiking out to the very eastern border of the table to a beacon and then we hiked back RIGHT along the edge. It got so close in parts that we could look over and see straight down at least 100-200 yards. It's a great hike because it's right in the middle of this great city but it's incredibly beautiful and doesn't feel affected by the urbanization around it at all.
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