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- Entrance to District Six Museum, guided township walk & Robben Island
- Return transport to your central Cape Town Hotel (Seapoint, Waterfront, Downtown)
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- Meals
- Personal Items and Souvenirs
- Optional Activities
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A full day tour visiting Cape Town landmarks and areas that featured during the anti-apartheid struggle.
Any understanding of present day conditions in South Africa is greatly enhanced by looking at past injustice, the legacy of the struggle and the promise of reconstruction and development initiatives under way at present.
Spend the day visiting areas that were greatly affected during the apartheid regime - areas like District Six, the townships and Cape Flats.
Discover the Malay area of Bo-Kaap and visit Robben Island where many leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle, including Nelson Mandela, were incarcerated for many years.
Walk to Freedom
First stop of the day in Cape Town is the colourful Cape Malay area of Bo-Kaap, an area with a unique Muslim culture. Feel the vibe of this close knit community and learn about their contribution to South Africa's history.
You then move on to the area formerly known as District Six, an area from which 60 000 Capetonian families were forcibly removed between 1966 and 1982. Visit the fascinating District Six Museum which showcases the integrated, vibrant community that was torn apart during apartheid and how it affected the people living there.
During the apartheid regime the government moved many people of colour out of so called "white areas" to townships where they were often left with little housing and few facilities. This has resulted in the sprawling shanty towns around Cape Town.
Langa is Cape Town's oldest formal black township and as guests of local community workers, you take a walk through this vibrant community with all its different social strata.
You will have the opportunity to talk to people and try the traditional African sorghum beer and ginger beer at a small township shop ("spaza") or "shebeen" (tavern).
You are then transferred to the V&A Waterfront where you can grab a quick snack lunch before boarding the ferry to Robben Island. A former leper colony but more famous as a political prison, this is where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for most of his sentence during the apartheid era.
Following your tour of Robben Island you are transferred back to your hotel.
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