District Six Museum Cape Town

Today was definitely packed with history and lots and lots of talking...
It was a rough start to the day with a 3 hour lecture.. the first hour and a half was reflecting on the previous two days and the last hour and a half was all South African history, pre and post Apartheid. It's amazing how much well first, how much they know about our …

Opened the blinds. Heavy cloud cover with rain threatening. No climbing Table Mountain today. Plan C is to visit the local museums.

The District 6 museum was interesting. On the city tour one can see a section of town that is bear. This is District 6. In the apartheid era, the occupants (coloured and black) of District 6 were forcibly …

Dnes sme isli do muzea ktore sa vola District Six Museum. Je to muzeum o casti Kapskeho mesta, ktore sa volalo District Six. Bola to cast mesta, ktora bola blizko centra mesta a postihol ho podobny osud ako podhradie v Bratislave ked sa tam budoval Novy Most.

60 tisic ludi z Districtu Six bolo odsunutych mimo mesto do Cape Flats, kde je …

And so began our next adventure... We arrived in Johannesburg very tired after an 8 hour flight and 5 hour time difference, caught the first flight out to Cape Town and then pretty much slept the rest of the day.

Our first visit in Cape Town was to Robben Island, a very moving experience. Robben Island is a flat barren island that used to …

After my fairly busy weekend, you'd think I'd finally revert into traveller mode and do less with my days, but alas no. Although Monday was certainly a slower start given that it was tipping down with rain when I woke up, I still managed an 8km round trip walk to the District Six museum and the 2 Oceans Aquarium. The District Six museum depicts the …

... 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, coloured and ...

... 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 ...

... was not the brightest idea!) Did a walking tour of one of the townships:  a memorable experience Visited the District Six Museum (an area in Cape town that was designated a 'white area' and any blacks or 'coloured' people were 4 evicted from their ...

... white person on the street most of the time. People did look at me, but I never felt uncomfortable at all. I went to the district six museum and also took a trip out to robben island (in 6 meter swells - what a ride THAT was!) where the tour was led ...

... 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 the ...

... and architecture made for some good pictures. Just up the street from the castle, Greg and I made our way back to the District Six Museum. We had both already been, but went back again to enjoy this amazing museum. I could go there once a week and ...

... 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 ...

... from the British. We did the official tour and watched the guards fire the ceremonial gun. Next we visited the District Six Museum, this museum is in the area that used to be a multi-racial community but under apartheid the government had decided that ...

... Signal Hill & Lions Head · The oldest Mosque in the Country · Bo-Kaap & the Bo-Kaap Museum · The District Six Museum · Castle of Good Hope · Company's Garden · Stately Houses of Parliament · Cultural History Museum · Exhibits on ...

... I also booked a Robben island ticket for the next day, that would go ahead if the weather was better, and visited the District Six museum, about the people who were thrown out of this area of Cape Town when the apartheid government decided they wanted to ...