Bo-Kaap is
Africaans and means "above the Cape". It's an interesting and
colourful part of Cape Town. Bo-Kaap is situated beween Wale St. and the slopes
of Signal Hill. The origin of this suburb is connected to one of the the dark
pages of South African history. The suburb had been called the Malay quarters
as people from Malay, India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka had been forced to live
there as slaves. Some of the offspring still live there. The houses are painted
very colourful. It's worth a visit and a the Bo-Kaap Museum on Wale St. is open
on weekdays.
Bo-Kaap
from Signal Hill
You might
be insterested in looking at the mosque, as Bo-Kaap is also the tradional
suburb for Muslims.
I had been
quite surprised after coming back to Cologne to find some streets reminding me
of Bo-Kaap. I have been to Köln-Mülheim, one of the suburbs of Cologne, since
my childhood, but had never entered this particular set of streets. Now, due to
parking restrictions I went there and look, what I saw there:
Maybe other cities have their little Bo-Kaaps, too.
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