One of the more famous dark tourism destinations is South Africa’s Robben Island. The island is now a UNESCO World Heritage site located about 7 miles off the coast of Cape Town. It was once ...

One dark tourism destination is an island that’s seven miles off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Robben Island has been dubbed a place synonymous with dark tourism as it was the spot where ...

Robben Island, one of Cape Town’s most visited attractions, has more to offer than just the ferry ride there and the prison ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: The ferry ride to Robben Island can be quite choppy. If you tend to get queasy, visit the museum at the Cape Town ferry dock and also consider the free Apartheid to Freedom ...

South Africa's Robben Island is home to a number of animal species including deer, antelope and rabbits South Africa's Robben Island will cull 400 fallow deer which have overrun the island ...

Abigail Kirkland ready to depart for her Robben Island crossing Photo: Supplied Former Zululander and open water swimmer Abigail Kirkland recently swam the equivalent of four-and-a-half Midmar ...

Taking broad lyrical strides across various major crucial epochs in the history of this country, Gaby offers an insider’s view of a number of key events ... In looking wider than the inside of Robben ...