District Six Cape Town

Cape Town , Western Cape, South Africa
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    4 reviews 68 travel blogs 43 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Historic site, Neighborhood

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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction District Six Cape Town

  • 1

    Broken

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    Cape Town is wonderful, so much to do and see. We check into a B&B in central. Strangely we're the only ones staying here. It's been like that in many places we stayed. Recession is bad now.

    We meet Luke again. Last year I met him during the world cup and we went to Kruger to see the big five. He studies geology at UCT. He has an …

Related BlogsDistrict Six Cape Town

  • 1

    Penultimate blog, Cape town and good hope

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    ... are encouraged to bring a pick-nic and some wine, and you get a free candle. We ticked off a visit to the Cape town fort and to the District six museum, a very emotive museum about the re-location of a city centre district in the 60's where black, ...

  • 2

    District Six and townships

    ... to some island off the coast of Madagascar rather than Kenya. After a long 8 days at sea I have finally made it to Cape Town, South Africa. It is a dream come true to be here. This is the port city that I have been most looking forward to. I ...

  • 3

    Vistas and visa card potential

    ... really fully understood until my time in Africa. The museum is full of fantastic black and white photographs of families who lived on District Six before they were forced from their homes. They're beautiful, but saddening to look at - a mix of smiling ...

  • 4

    Africa in the Winter is Cold?

    After the amazing safari, I traveled to Cape Town on the coast of South Africa (this was not part of my around the world ticket - I bought the ticket separetly). I had imagined cape town to be a rich city, safe, and warm. It turned out to be not quite ...

  • 5

    Full Day Cultural Township Tour

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    ... tour will touch your heart and awaken your inner spirit as you discover the sad but also positive history of Cape Town and its people. Visit District Six, and experience the history attached to this part of Cape Town, a story about people who have been ...

  • 6

    Last few days in Cape Town.... :-(

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    ... were walking targets for getting mugged so her advice was to get out asap so we made a sharp harp exit! We visited the District Six museum in the afternoon which tells the story of black people who were forceably removed from their homes to make way for ...

  • 7

    GOOOOAAAAALLLL!

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    ... see something new. Around this time we were both getting hungry and we decided to go to the Bo Kaap District in downtown Cape Town. This residential neighborhood is a predominately a coloured Muslim Indian area. It is a beautiful place with bright ...

  • 8

    Cape Town

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    ... later Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders were arrested and imprisoned on Robin Island, just off the coast. The famous District Six area, what was a predominantly colored ghetto, until it was declared a white neighborhood and the inhabitants expelled, ...

  • 9

    The Long Way Down

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    ... museum that gave a fascintaing insight into the apartheid struggle and the demonstrations that took place and District Six museum. This is an area of Cape Town that was reclaimed by the government during apartheid and meant the forced removal of ...

  • 10

    City bowl sightseeing

    ... Museum and Holocaust Centre was open and we decided to pay a visit. Reading about how Jewish people came to South Africa mainly from Lithuania was interesting, and the holocaust centre highlighted the horrors they faced in Europe during ...