09h30 Depart CTICC. Transfer to the V&A Waterfront. You will have an hour to browse until we embark on the 11h00 journey to Robben Island which take 3.5 hours. An incredible experience and emotional tour which symbolizes the triumph of freedom in South Africa. For nearly 400 years, Robben Island, 12 kilometres from Cape Town, was a place of banishment, exile, isolation and imprisonment. It was here that rulers sent those they regarded as political troublemakers, social outcasts and the unwanted of society. At Murray’s Bay Harbour situated on the east coast of the Island busses that will transport you to all the historical sites around the Island with its multi-layered 500 year old history. The tour route includes the graveyard of people who died from leprosy, the Lime Quarry, Robert Sobukwe’s house, the army and navy bunkers and the Maximum Security Prison where thousands of South Africa’s freedom fighters were incarcerated for years. The tour culminates with a viewing of Nelson Mandela’s cell.