At the restaurant Mzansi in Cape Town

[jwg]

As a part of our Road Scholar trip to Southern Africa we went to lunch at a restaurant, Mzansi, in Langa, one of the neighborhoods in Cape Town that was designated as a place to move black people during the apartheid regime to make way for white people in other sections of the city.

At the end of the meal the owner and operator, Nomonde Siyaka, gave a fascinating talk about the history of the place. It was originally a very small house in whch her family lived in extremely crowded conditions.

The food was excellent - it is rated #1 in Cape Town on TripAdvisor - clearly for both the food and the experience.

There were marimba players in the front of the restaurant entertaining us and at the end they were quite loud and everyone joined in dancing.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Just asking your opinion ... Would the Road Scholar tours be affordable for a single traveler?

[jwg.livejournal.com]

Pricing for single travelers varies from a lot extra to no supplement. Probably depends upon transportation method and accommodations, etc. They do an incredible amount of trips. We've gotten lots of catalogs in the mail and some are about 100 pages.