Exploring Cape Town ..

Yesterday we went to the South African Museum - it was much smaller than I expected. The exibition of South African culture & peoples was really interesting, although it was quite small. The rest of the museum was mostly about fish & birds & dinosaurs, which wasn't as interesting.

Yesterday evening we went to dinner at George's place (our project partner). He lives in Parow - it's about 20 km outside Cape Town... we had some trouble finding the place.
It turned out to be party rather than a dinner. George had invited some of his friends and teachers from the Esangweni school. The music was great, we danced a lot and really enjoyed ourselves.

We had planned to climb Table Mountain today, but as it was cloudy in the morning we had to postpone it again. So, we went to the city instead and visited 2 museums. First, the District Six museum - I think it's the best museum in Cape Town, really worth seeing. In the 60s, the white minority forcibly removed the black and coloured inhabitants of the District Six from their homes and relocated them to the Cape Flats. The museum has lots of personal stories & experiences from that time...
The other museum was a really small one - the Bo-Kaap museum in the Malay quarter.

If anyone wants to read some South African literature, I can recommend 'An Instant In the Wind' by Andre Brink - really good.. I'm just finishing it now and today I bought another book by him...