Cape Town Diamond Museum

Caught a Bolt from Bo-Kaap to the V&A Waterfront and found the Diamond Museum as part of the Shimansky jewelry store, the Tiffany of South Africa. Had a great one hour private tour with a very in-depth story of diamonds and their history in SA.

The first diamond was found by a boy just laying on the ground. It triggered something very much akin to the Klondike gold rush with stakeholders panning for diamonds or digging pits in a frenzy. Many interesting anecdotes. Replicas of some of the huge diamonds found in South Africa like the Cullinin and the British Crown jewelsRead more