Table Mountain Cableway
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Overview
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02/02/2011 - 02/02/2014 |
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08:00 am - 07:30 pm |
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POA |
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Tafelberg Road
Cape Town City Bowl, Cape Town
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Contact Information
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(021) 424 8181 |
Description
The five-minute ascent to the top of Table Mountain offers a 360° view of Cape Town, the ocean and the neighbouring peaks.
Some astonishingly impressive stuff about the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway:
* The Cableway has transported over 20-million people to the summit of Table Mountain.
* Each of the two cable cars can carry 65 people.
* More than 800 people can enjoy the trip every hour.
* The floor of the circular cabin rotates to allow travellers 360° views.
* The cable cars’ circular shape ensures excellent aerodynamics and estability.
* Approximately 800 000 visitors from all over the world use the Cableway annually.
* Tickets can be bought online from anywhere in the world.
* The cable cars travel at a maximum speed of 10m per second.
* The cable cars take four to five minutes to reach the top of the mountain.
* Each of the Cableway’s cables is 1200m in length.
* The cables weigh 18 tonnes and are attached to counter-weights weighing 134 tonnes each.
* The cable car base is a water tank with a 4000l capacity. This provides fresh water for visitors, and is used as ballast in windy conditions.
* The cable cars can carry up to 5 200kg each.
* There are only two other such cable cars in the world; one in Titlis in Switzerland, and the other in Palm Springs in the United States.
* The cable cars take visitors 704m, from the lower station at 363m above sea level, to the upper station, at 1067m above sea level.
