The Short History of Cape Town's Table Mountain

Cape Town in western Cape has a long history of human settlements. Local people used to live by by hunting, fishing, agriculture and by saving roots. This people are the ancestors of Khoisan, Bushmen and the Khoikhoi.

[The Table Mountain from the Sea]

[The View of the City from the Mountain]

Before european settlement the locals (Hottentot) use to do trading with Bantu-speaking people with cattle and marijuanaa. When europeans started their settlement in this area Hottentot people worked as brokers and did trading between Europeans and the Xhosa tribes in the east.

Cape Point- Image Source

[The V&A Waterfront]

Bartholomeus Dias the Porttuguese sailor find the sea route to the East. As per historians Dias was the one who named the peninsula as Cabo Tormentosa which means Cape of Storms and later Vasco da Gama altered this place to Cabo da Boa Esperanca which means Cape of Good Hope because they felt it brought hope that it is possible to a sea route to the East was possible. After 10 years Vasco Da Gama completed the sea route to India from Portugal via Cape opening trade between East and the Europe.

[The Sunset from the Mountain]

Antonio de Saldanha and his crew was the
the first europeans to climb Taboa do Cabo (Table Mountain), the name was given becasue of its shape.