It is Table Mountain, without a doubt, that makes Cape Town as a city, the true gem that it is. Rising straight out of the ocean to the height of 1000m, the Table face itself cradles the City Bowl and downtown districts, yet the mountain range extends 60kms South forming a mountenous spine of the Cape Peninsula around which the Atlantic Seaboard and Southern Suburbs have developed into popular and leafy sumptuous city suburbs. Table Mountain forms part of the Table Mountain National Park and an areal cableway ascends (with a 360degree rotation) to the table top from which one of the most spectacular views in Africa is displayed. A prominent marker for any local or visitor to town, it is a grounding force for all and a means of locating one's direction no matter how lost.