Natural feature
Devil's Peak
Peak named for a legendary pipe-smoking contest with the devil, whose smoke still forms the mountain's tablecloth cloud.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Devil's Peak in Cape Town tells the story Capetonians still repeat about Jan van Hunks, a retired Dutch sea captain banished from his own house around 1700 for the reek of his pipe. You'll hear how he came up to smoke alone on this mountainside, and how a stranger sat down beside him one day, asked for a light, and drew him into a contest of who could out-smoke whom. The guide also follows the name into the present, to a brewery on the slopes below that borrowed the mountain's reputation for itself.
This audio guide was created using AI.