Walk through history and botanical gardens... and dance the day away
March 30, 2026 Day 8 For our last full day in Cape Town, our group shuttled into the bus and made our way to the ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ museum, an arrangement of one-hundred statues of prominent figures in South Africa’s fight for freedom before/during/after Apartheid . We took a 350-year journey through South Africa’s liberation history, told through the lives of iconic individuals crafted as life-size statues. We were fortunate to be joined by our friends from iThuba who spent the day with us. Upon arriving, we were blown away by how many indivduals–from different countries, cultures, and backrounds–played such a crucial role in South Africa’s liberation, such as Mahatma Gandhi, MLK, Robert Sobukwe, and Helen Suzman. Moreover, seeing all these figures, men and women, from Angola to Zulus, from Xhosa to the United States, in real life was particularly fascinating because we have been exposed to these individuals on our various daily excursions, like seeing where Robert Subukwe w...
