Cape Town, Day 2

Today I was scheduled to go on a tour of Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 27 years, however the ferry is broken and the part will not arrive for several days.  Instead, we toured the District 6 museum, which documents the forced removal and destruction of a mixed race neighborhood near downtown during the apartheid regime.  We also toured the Holocaust museum and talked about similarities between apartheid in SA and the restrictive laws against Jews in Germany in the 1930's.  Finally, we walked through the gardens in the center of town beside the Parliament buildings.  In the early years of Cape Town in the 1600's and 1700's, the garden was used to grow vegetables for passing ships of the Dutch East Indies Corporation.