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Here's why Cape Town is the perfect cultural getaway

by Femina Travel | May 7, 2018, 12:00 AM IST Colour-filled suburbs, fusion cuisine, Colonial-era relics, and creative museums and memorials bring Cape Town’s history to life against a Table Mountain backdrop. The history and heritage of Cape Town are evident throughout the city – explore rich Cape Malay culture, trace back steps of South Africa’s freedom struggle and admire centuries’-old Colonial architecture.


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The former prison on Robben Island is a key location in South Africa’s long walk to freedom. Nelson Mandela and other dissidents were incarcerated around 10km out in Table Bay, following in the tragic footsteps of earlier rebels against the Cape’s Colonial governments.


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This museum celebrates the once lively and multiracial District Six suburb, destroyed in the 1960s and 70s during apartheid, its 60,000 inhabitants forcibly removed. In the former Methodist Mission Church, you’ll find photographs, testimonials and recreated homes. It’s impossible not to be emotionally touched by the museum.


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South Africa’s Cape Malay people are descended from Asian and African slaves; the colourful Bo-Kaap is where freed slaves settled after emancipation in the 1830s. Gamidah Jacobs is a wonderful local guide and conducts hands-on Cape Malay cooking classes in her historical home.


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This small but interesting museum provides insight into the lifestyle of a prosperous 19th-century Cape Muslim family, and a somewhat idealised view of Islamic practice in Cape Town. The most interesting exhibit is the selection of black-and-white photos of local life displayed in the upstairs room, across the courtyard. The house itself, was built between 1763 and 1768, and is the oldest in the area.


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Built by the Dutch between 1666 and 1679, this stone-walled pentagonal castle remains the headquarters for the Western Cape military command. Free guided tours run at 11am, noon and 2pm Monday to Saturday. Don’t miss the bastions’ views.

