Robben Island and Table Mountain

On Sunday we ventured to Robben Island and Table Mountain. I know, it is Friday and now we are catching up on our blog. Robben Island was home to Nelson Mandela during apartheid. He was a political prisoner for a number of years. Robben Island is four miles off of the coast in Cape Town and housed a prison until the end of apartheid, roughly 1994. The tour of the prison was very in depth. Our guide was even a former prison with Mandela. After our journey off the mainland, we went to Table Mountain. There is no other sight in the world as beautiful as this. The pictures will not show 1 tenth of the true beauty that is Table Mountain. It rises nearly a mile into the South African sky and is a finalist to become one of the 7 New Natural Wonders of the World. Sometime you cannot help but ask, “How is a country this beautiful so unfortunate at times?”