New7Wonders

Cape Town has been fortunate to find that not one, but two of its !conic landmarks have been nominated in the New7Wonders of Nature campaign.

Table Mountain  and the Cape of Good Hope, alongside the Kruger National Park and the Vredefort Crater, have been nominated by users around the world to be voted as one of the new 7 Natural Wonders of the World.

Table Mountain is one of South Africa's most popular tourist destinations.

Table Mountain, a flat-topped mountain, forms a prominent landmark which overlooks the city. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top. The mountain forms part of the Table Mountain National Park, which stretches all the way to Cape Point.

Currently ranked 228 on the list... this prominent landmark needs your vote if it wishes to make it into the top 77 in order to form part of the next phase of the process.

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. As one of the great capes of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope has been of special significance to sailors for many years and is widely referred to by them simply as "The Cape."

Currently ranked 78, you have done well enough thus far, but continue to post in your votes in order to ensure that this landmark moves up to 77 and further.

Voting for the nominees will continue through till 7 July 2009. Then the New7Wonders of Nature Panel of Experts, under the leadership of Prof. Federico Mayor, former Director-General of UNESCO, will review the top 77 nominees and choose the 21 finalists, to be announced on 21 July 2009. These finalists will then be put to popular vote.

Visit New7Wonders for more info and to vote for our nominees. After the support shown for Cape Town on the Monopoly World Vote competition (resulting in our beautiful city to occupy the prime third spot), we know that the support for Cape Town is there.