Robben Island Prison Museum and Table Mountain - Full day

Robben Island Prison Museum and Table Mountain - Full day

This tour provides the traveler with a rare opportunity of visiting two very popular attractions which have significantly contributed towards South Africa being the leading African tourist destination.
Robben Island declared a world heritage site in 1999 by UNESCO. The former prison of World Statesman Nelson Mandela, two other political prisoners cum South African Presidents.
Former Political prisoners in the apartheid era were also imprisoned here but now a place visited by over 306 912 visitors (according to the 2018/19 stats)
Table Mountain was inaugurated as one of the new seven wonders of Nature on the 2 of December 2012. And is the only one of the new seven wonders of nature in a city no wonder why over 1 161 206 visitors visited this iconic landscape (as per 2018/19 statistics).

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Robben Island Museum, Cape Town Central 7400 South Africa

Robben Island is an island in Table Bay – Cape Town. It was named by the Dutch- Robben Island and the British had called it Seal Island.
It was used as an animal quarantine station, as a leper colony and for isolation of mainly political prisoners. To date, three former inmates of Robben Island have gone on to become President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Kgalema Motlanthe and Jacob Zuma.
Robben Island was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 1999 and offers daily tours. Tour to this world Heritage site begins at the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the V&A Waterfront.

After pick-up from your hotel in Cape Town, you will be driven to the V&A Waterfront where you board the Robben Island Ferry to the world-famous place of incarceration of Nelson Mandela for 18 of his 27 years. This place dubbed “South Africa Alcatraz” served as a leper colony, a place of isolation, banishment, and imprisonment.
The Island is a state reminder of the harsh conditions endured as a reward for freedom from the Government of apartheid. After the historical, emotional, educative and informative tour which is conducted either by ex-prison warders or ex-prisoners of Robben Island, you board the ferry back to the Waterfront.


Duration: 4 hours

Stop At: Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape

In Cape Town, there are plenty of restaurants offering delicious international and traditional African dishes from various countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Congo, and Ethiopia. We will visit one of them and that will leave you licking your fingers. You will also have an option to try the famed South African braai (barbecue) and Malay curry dishes that Cape Town restaurants are famous for.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Table Mountain National Park 8001 South Africa

After lunch, you will then drive to Table Mountain which was recently voted one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. You then ride the cable car which takes you to the top of Table Mountain (a 3-minute ride of magnificent views as the cable car rotates on its way to the top).
Enjoy the majestic views from the top of the Mother City and the Atlantic seaboard with its world-class beaches. After spending some time on the top of the Table Mountain you then jump into the cable car which takes you to the station at the foot of the mountain.


Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes