Bo Kaap is one of Cape Town’s oldest residential areas, home to many of the descendants of the Dutch imported slaves and full of 19th century Dutch architecture. Sign up for a walking tour of the area and explore the many alleyways of the Muslim quarter as well as the Bo Kaap Museum. Since the Dutch colonization in the mid 1600s, Robben Island has been used as a leper colony, hospital and wartime defense station but it is probably best known as the prison where Nelson Mandela spent almost 20 years. Nowadays, the Robben Island Museum is open to visitors who want to learn more about the island’s history and the abolition of Apartheid in South Africa. The South Africa Museum and Planetarium is a great family excursion with a unique collection of whale skeletons, giant squid and “Shark World”. There are social and natural history exhibits including the fossilized skeletons of long-extinct reptiles that ruled the land some 50 million years before the dinosaurs. Telkom Exploratorium i...