Day Tours in & around Cape Town
Cape Town Accommodation Options
Day Tour 4 : Cape Tour Mother City, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens & Robben Island Tour
Itinerary:
Depart at 9:30am for a Mother City- (See tour 3) OR Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens (tour 4) Tour.
Robben Island: You depart from the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the V & A Waterfront for the 3½-hour extreme excursion.
Disembark at Murray’s Bay Harbour situated on the east coast of the Island and take a short walk to buses that will transport you to all the historical sites around the Island. On the way to the buses, you will pass buildings and a high wall built by prisoners during the 1960s.The buildings were used for family and lawyer visits to prisoners.
Robben Island: You depart from the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the V & A Waterfront for the 3½-hour extreme excursion.
You will meet your Tour Guide when you have boarded the busses. The Tour guides inside the prison are former political prisoners. They are fully conversant and knowledgeable about the Island’s multi-layered 500 year old history. The tour route includes the graveyard of people who died from leprosy, the Lime Quarry, Robert Sobukwe’s house, the Bluestone quarry, the army and navy bunkers and the Maximum Security Prison where thousands of South Africa’s freedom fighters were incarcerated for years. The tour culminates with a viewing of Nelson Mandela’s cell.
