Main Info
Departures: Mornings 09:00 – 13:00
Duration: approximately 4 hours
Groups or Private Guiding: booking essential
If you have an interest in history, economics, and the shaping of a nation, this Cape Town Walking Tour unravels the complex dynamics that have influenced South Africa.
Our skilled guides appraise the roles played by people, institutions and politics and share insights into the events and policies that shaped South Africa. They will highlight fateful events and legislations, how the arrival of Europeans changed a uniquely African way of life, and the injustice of colonization, slavery, racial segregation and apartheid. History provides many lessons to be learned.
Highlights
– Gain insights into pre-colonial indigenous people’s lifestyle
– Trace the changing economy
– Discuss 1994 liberation and the success and failings of a new democracy
Includes
– All Entrance Fees
– Local Tour Guide
– Lunch
Excludes
– Hotel Collection and drop-off
– Discretionary tips
Typical Itinerary
10:00 Meet at Church Square, surrounded by buildings that tell Cape Town’s colonial history. Gaze up at the fresco above the old slave quarters, then venture into the Slave Lodge Museum, which bears testament to this piece of history.
11:00 – 12:30 Walk back in time through a selection of Cape Town’s most significant historic landmarks each with its own story; Bo Kaap Malay Quarter, City Hall, Company’s Gardens, District Six Museum, Greenmarket Square, Mandela Rhodes House, St. Georges Cathedral, Wagenaer’s Reservoir.
12:30 Arrive at The Castle of Good Hope. Visit the Camisa Museum, ironically placed within the bastion of colonization, revealing the history and stories of those classified as ‘Coloured’.
13:00 Tour ends at The Castle.
