Day Tour - Robben Island Visit
Duration: 0.5 day
Highlights: Robben Island
This half day guided tour offers insight to the history of the island. For 400 years it was a place of banishment, exile, isolation and also where the late Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.
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Itinerary
The tour starts with a visit to the Robben Island Museum followed by a ferry boat transfer to Robben Island. The tour is a must for those that want to delve into the story of modern South Africa and its deliverance from the Apartheid years after the free elections of 1994, when Nelson Mandela came to power and the new "Rainbow Nation" came to life.
Robben Island sits 12 kilometers offshore from Cape Town, surrounded by freezing cold seas and strong currents. In this way, geographically, it is Cape Town's version of “Alcatraz”, perfectly
designed and naturally defended to create the ultimate prison.
During Apartheid, Robben Island was internationally known for its institutional brutality. It was here that Nelson Mandela, was incarcerated for 18 of the 27 years that he spent as a political prisoner of the regime. Some freedom fighters spent more than a quarter of a century here for their beliefs. On this tour you will see the prison itself and Mandela's cell. In the 2 odd hours that you spend on the island, your guide will bring those years to life and explain to you how the legacy of Robben Island has been one of the most important building blocks of the new "Rainbow Nation".
