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Robben Island booking

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Robben Island booking

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  1. Cape town day tours

  2. For whatever reason you are in Cape Town you certainly can’t miss a trip to the famous Robben Island. Let’s explore the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years for his beliefs. Robben Island is renowned all over the globe as a place of banishment, exile, imprisonment and isolation. For almost four hundred years, colonial and apartheid rulers banished those they considered as social outcasts, political troublemakers and the unwanted of society to this 575 hectare rocky outcrop in Table Bay.

  3. The Island’s reluctant occupants included slaves, religious and political leaders who stood against Dutch colonialism in East Asia, bothersome local Khoikhoi & African leaders who opposed Dutch and British development in South Africa, leprosy sufferers & other sick and mentally disturbed; French Vichy prisoners of war; and most recently, political opponents of the apartheid regime in South Africa and Namibia.

  4. During the apartheid years Robben Island became globally recognized for its institutional cruelty. Some freedom fighters spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for their beliefs. Yet individual such as Nelson Mandela came forward to lead South Africa to democracy, with a message of forgiveness, reunion and hope. Those jailed on the island succeeded in turning a prison “hell-hole” into a sign of freedom & personal liberty.

  5. Your Robben Island tour starts from the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the Clock Tower Precinct inside Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. The Gateway is the “mainland front door” to Robben Island, representing the significance of the island in South Africa’s young democracy. The Gateway accommodates a 150-seater boardroom, auditorium and a Robben Island Museum shop amidst other amenities. Digital and interactive presentation spaces on all 3 floors of the Gateway building offers the tourist with a chronological perspective of Robben Island’s Maximum Security Prison and also reflecting the wider extension of the island’s past.

  6. Robben Island gets more than 300 thousand tourists every year, with the highest portion being South Africans. More than 95 percent of tourists have articulated their Robben Island tours as an uplifting and eye-opening experience. And there is still so much more to see during your visit. The isle is home to more than 100 species of bird, while during your boat trip over from Cape Town you may even be lucky enough to spy Southern Right whales, Cape Fur seals and Dusky and Heaviside dolphins in the water.

  7. Thank you… Cape Town Day Tours, 38 Thornhill Road, Rondebosch,Cape Town,Western Cape Zip code-7700 Ph-27216863117 Fax-27866890432 South Africa http://www.capetowndaytours.net/

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