Natural feature
Lion's Head
Steep rocky peak with chain-and-ladder trails, a hidden Muslim shrine on its slope, and panoramic city views.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lion's Head in Cape Town traces the grave of Mohamad Hassen Ghaibie Shah, one of four shrines on this slope of Signal Hill, and the roughly 250-year-old prophecy that a ring of holy graves around the peninsula protects the city from disaster. You'll hear how these men were political prisoners of the Dutch East India Company, exiled scholars and princes from Java and Sumatra, and how their graves became sites of pilgrimage. Listen for the muezzin's call still rising from Bo-Kaap below.
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