South Africa: the land of crazy holidays.
Earlier this trip we celebrated Women’s Day with a day off of school, and now they give us National Braai Day. It’s actually officially called National Heritage Day, but has come to be known affectionately by locals as National Braai Day. To celebrate heritage, Natalie and I headed downtown to visit a few of the museums, as they were free this whole week.
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| The House of Parliament |
To start the day off we ate at one of the most delicious restaurants in Cape Town called Fork. It is a tapas restaurant that has some crazy good concoctions. After some morrocan meatballs, a pumpkin, hummus, and pine nut salad, and a couple glasses of wine, Nats and I were ready to start being cultural.
First we went to the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum, which is in an old slave home that commemorates the slave trade all over the world. There was also a great Nelson Mandela exhibit that told all about Madeba’s life.
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| Stained glass mural inside the Slave Lodge Museum |
After that, Natalie and I headed to the District 6 Museum, which is an absolutely great place to visit. The museum itself is pretty small, but between all of the writings done by residents of District 6 and writings from visitors all over the world, one could end up spending hours reading everything! The floor is a covered in a map that was re-created by old residents, and each resident wrote where their house once stood in the area.
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| Inside the District 6 Museum- the memory cloth and original street signs from the neighborhood. |
To finish off the day properly we had a huge InterStudy braai where almost all 40 or so of us were outside on the porches cooking out. It was great and definitely made me feel like a local!
