Andrew Caroline and Gary inside the cable car!

I love cable cars. They are so much fun.

I bet they have a good view from there !

As the cable car moves, the floor rotates giving everyone a 360 degree view. The base of the cable car is in fact a water tank that can carry up to 4000 litres of fresh water used to ballast during the windy season and also transport fresh water for visitors. We were told that in the event of a power failure, the water is used as ballast in the opposite car to counterbalance the one bringing visitors down who get stuck on the top! When we were there, there frequent power failures across the whole of S Africa and the cable car was often out of action. My daughter had arranged for her wedding ceremony to take place on Table Mountain and she had booked for all the guests on the cable car (so romantic) but on the day, would you believe it, there was a power failure so we had to go to Plan B at short notice which meant transferring to a lovely beach location a few miles away. We all enjoyed it though, and most of us went up the Mountain at a later date.

oops! sorry for the typo~it is 400 litres of water not 4000! ~also the time taken to get from the bottom cable station to the top is 6 to 10 minutes!

~apologies folks! ~My hubby points out that I was correct the first time round~there are 4000 litres of fresh water carried in the base of the cable car~all the water for the cafe etc has to be transported to the top! The lurgey is still giving me a hard time!

Probably a lot a water goes back down in the visitors bladder.
I' m intrigued that the floor of the car has a revolving 360% view and the water acts as a ballast a counter weight.

~you should have seen the earlier ones~very flimsy looking and not very big!They had them on show down at the docking station!

Probably good thing they were only on show, you have a hard time getting me into a modern day one let alone a rickety old one. I have been on one up the side of Sulfur Mountain in the Canadian Rockies.