One in every of Cape City’s most visited sights, Robben Island Museum, provides greater than only a jail tour and placing views of Desk Mountain. The World Heritage website, simply 12 km from Cape City, offers a spread of personalised day and in a single day experiences.
Right here’s every thing you didn’t know you can do at Robben Island Museum:
A Non-public Robben Island Museum Tour
If you wish to delve deeper into the historical past of Robben Island, its political prisoners, and the compelling and quirky tales with out the crowds, a personal tour could be organized. You’ll journey by ferry or helicopter to the island, the place a tour information will whisk you away in a personal shuttle. Expertise life on Robben Island via the eyes of a former political prisoner, who will share in-depth data on how they overcame many adversities, their journey to the island, and insights about Nelson Mandela.
The tour is tailor-made to your wants, permitting you to resolve the way you want to construction it.
Robben Island provides guests a journey into the legacy of resistance and liberation via a variety of serious sights to see which incorporates Jetty 1 (Mainland), The Customer’s Centre, Robert Sobukwe Advanced, The Village Precinct, The Banishment fields, The Ou Tronk, The Kramat, Garrison Church, and World Struggle II Relics.
Guided Strolling Excursions
Discover the UNESCO World Heritage Websites by foot throughout a guided strolling tour and stroll on the footprints of those that got here earlier than us in liberating South Africa
Begin the tour on the Nelson Mandela Gateway on the V&A Waterfront with a 38-minute ferry trip there (and again) the place you get to soak in breathtaking views of Desk Mountain and the Mom Metropolis Bowl.
The tour takes you to eight historic websites, together with the Murray’s Bay Harbour Exhibition, the Customer Centre Advanced, the Land of Banishment for Xhosa Chiefs, the Ou Tronk Exhibition, the Blue Stone Quarry, the World Struggle II Precinct, the Agricultural Precinct, the Lime Stone Quarry, and the Most Safety Jail.
As you discover these completely different websites, cease and take within the surroundings round you, and some selfies.
In a single day Lodging
Change into a VIP visitor if you keep at Robben Island’s Visitor Home, the place VIPs and statesmen often keep after they go to throughout the island’s political jail period. The Visitor Home can accommodate 15 friends, with rooms that includes basic furnishings, picket flooring, a kitchen, a eating room, rest room amenities, and a bar space.
Whereas there isn’t any on-site restaurant or kitchen, meals could be organized relying on the size of your keep. The lodging additionally has a convention room, supreme for conferences, birthday events, workshops, or teambuilding.
Host A Birthday Social gathering…
Now you can tick celebrating your birthday on a historic island/former maximum-security jail off your bucket listing. Robben Island provides just a few distinctive venues in your birthday bash: the charming Visitor Home and the spacious John Craig Corridor (JC Corridor). Every venue can accommodate 70-80 individuals respectively and is sure to be actually unforgettable.
…Or Get Married
Ditch the marriage venues within the metropolis and choose to wed at Garrison Church on the island. The Anglican Church can take as much as 80 friends and offers the very best backdrop for images.
Multi-Function Studying Centre and Sleep-over Camps
Relationship again to World Struggle II and later used within the late Sixties for frequent regulation prisoners, the venue now serves as a Multi-Function Studying Centre. It options convention and lecture rooms, an artwork studio, and lodging for team-building occasions or sleep-over camps. You may select from dormitories, single, or twin rooms, accommodating as much as 102 friends in complete. There’s additionally a braai space out there in your use. This facility is fashionable for varsity teams and youth management camps.
Robben Island Museum Data
Excursions: Basic excursions to Robben Island depart Monday to Sunday. These excursions are climate and demand allowing. Tour occasions are 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm.
Commonplace tour ticket worth: South Africans: R400 per grownup, R210 per baby beneath 18-years
Non-South Africans: R600 per grownup, R310 per baby beneath 18-years
Strolling tour ticket worth: South Africans: R1 000 per grownup, R620 per baby. Non-South Africans: R1 400 per grownup, R820 per Baby
Non-public excursions, lodging and venue rent costs can be found on request.
Transport: A ferry departs from the Nelson Mandela Gateway on the V&A Waterfront. The tour takes 3.5 hours, together with the 2 legs of a 38-minute ferry journey to and from the island.
Contact: Electronic mail infow@robben-island.org.za or name 021 413 4200
