Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The second to last day in South Africa

The 5th day in SA my friends and I were on a SAS field trip for our world religions class (well three of us anyway, Jen was just along for the ride).  It was called a three faiths tour.  We went to the first mosque built in Cape Town, a Jewish museum, a synagogue, and St. Georges Cathedral.  At the mosque our guild told us that one day a year these three places switch speakers.  For example the Islamic leader will go speak at the synagogue; the Jewish rabbi would go speak at the Cathedral, and the catholic priest would go to the mosque.  The Jewish museum was opened by Nelson Mandela and had a lot in it about the Jews involvement in apartheid.  It was really interesting. 
For dinner, after walking around for over an hour, we found a really good place to eat that served authentic African food.  It was really good, and our waiter was very nice and entertaining and called a cab for us (after we had eaten for about 2 hours), so we wouldn’t have to walk back in the dark. 

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