- Half-day. On demand. R595 per person.
Four hour tour of historic centre of the city. On foot and using public transport
- Can also be booked as part of Full Day City Tour & Township Futures
Highlights:
- New City Developments
- excellently researched insights into history
- the Camissa River
- District Six Museum
- BoKaap
- local food tasters
Inclusions:
- local tasters
- Mineral water
- entrance fees at the District Six museum
- guide
Exclusions
- discretionary tips
Cape Town is deceptive. The inner city - or the original, historic Cape Town city - is very very small, and is often seen as being the city in its entirety. It is not longer the epi-centre of Cape town, but it is where the story of the city begins.
This half-day journey through the inner-city the city puts the guest in touch with its very earliest days as the home of the Khoisan, right through to 10 years into the future and what is anticipated. It's not widely known, even by Capetonians, that the nation's first banks started here; that Cape Town as a commercial city began with the Camissa River, which flowed down the mountain and into the ocean, at the point where the train station is; that before the arrival of the Dutch there were thousands of years other history and stories.
We are interested in all the stories, and attempt in the four hours, to cover the widest diversity of the stories that have defined the city.
We include the District Six Museum and District Six the area briefly, as well as the old slave quarter, the Bo Kaap. If there is time and interest we may take in the stunning exhibition on at the National Art Gallery, detailing in art the history of the country post-apartheid.
You will leave with a very different sense of the city.
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