Check-in was very smooth and we were soon in our cabin...
...with a welcome bottle of bubbly...
We explored the ship
The next day we had free in port so we did a walking tour of Bo Kaap, the Malay/Muslim district renown for colourful houses.
We also had lunch there at a highly rated Cape Malay food restaurant - we had boboete- a local speciality, curry with a sweet flavour.
In the pm we did a Robben Island tour. This is where Nelson Mandela and many other prisoners were incarcerated
This is the maximum security prison
We has a talk by an ex prisoner
Plus we saw the limestone quarry in which the prisoners worked..
...and Mandela's cell
Plus his liberation story
As an unexpected bonus, we saw a colony of African penguins
..and found a good spot for a pose.
With slow and expensive internet on the boat, this may be the last post for this trip. See you in Australia mid Feb
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