Cape Town cultural heritage

With the weekend of, I deceide to venture down to Cape Town to see the sights. I'd been told how Cape Town can be a pretty nasty place if the weather is bad, but I must have jugged it because when I landed the rain had moved on and had been replaced by clousless blue skies and walm days. Cape Town has a rich and diverse history and visitors could spend weeks here learning all about it, but since I had two days, I chose the to biggest draw card to the cape, Table Mountain and Robbon Island.

The cable car to the table of cable mountain is quite a feat of engineering and you can't help but look up in hope that the cable doesn't break. The view for the top is breathtaking, yes the view is stunning but the air at 1100m metres is bloody cold and I could see snow about 50km away, but I was grateful that I had great visiability.

The following day I caught a boat out to Robbon Island about 8km out from Cape Town. Robbon Island also has a long and diverse history, having been used as a lepper colony, military base and most notably as a prison use to house political prisoners during the aphartide era, including Nelson Mandela for 18 years. The tour of the prison is carried out by a former prisoner and can be a moving experience as he explains some of his experiences there. Robbon Island also has a quarrying history from the time when the prisoners were made to cut limestone for the road base and other uses on the island. The whole island is now a world heritage site.