We took a boat ride to Robben Island, it took about 30 minutes to get there from the water front.
Here is the entrance, now it is only used for tourism and for 'team building' camps for students.
We took a bus tour around the island and then toured the prison on foot. There are about 120 people that currently live on the island. There is a primary school there with 7 students, 2 teachers and one principal. Anyone can send their kids to the school, but they would have to take a boat to the island everyday.
This was Nelson Mandela's prison cell, cell #7. They were given three blankets and a bucket. Mandela was imprisoned here for 17 years and then was transferred to two other prisons after that. The cells were recently painted to help preserve them. It is amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do to a prison cell. 
This is where they would S, S & S.
This is where some of the inmates would stay. I think that there would be about 100 inmates in this room. The bunks weren't there in prison times, but they are there now for the student camps that attend the island. The inmates were given two pieces of carpet to sleep on at night. 
