Wednesday May 27, 2026
We met our tour guide Manseur at 9:00 this morning for a day of sightseeing in Cape Town. We first visited Cape Town’s castle, originally built in the 1600’s when the Dutch first colonized South Africa. From there, we spent a couple of hours touring the slave lodge, where slaves from EastAfrica, Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia and other southeast Asian countries were initially housed before being sold at auction. The slaves’ treatment was horrific, from being chained 24/7 to being beaten and tortured and made to live and sleep in pitch-black squalor conditions. The majority of slaves brought to Cape Town ended up being owned by the Dutch East India Company.
In the afternoon we hiked Lion’s Head, part of Table Mountain National Park. Although not as high as Table Mountain nor as steep, it was still a good climb and we had beautiful views of the city and coastline below.
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| Pictorial depiction of the fight between the indigenous people of South Africa, the Kuhio, and the Portuguese, the first Europeans to land on the South African coast in the 1400's |
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| Kuhio warrior - I was taller than this man |
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| White squirrel in the Company's Garden in the center of Cape Town |
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| Protea in foreground, Cape Town and the Atlantic in background |
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| Sun is setting...time for us to descend the mountain |
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