Free tour

Discover the essence of Cape Town

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Cape Town

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Languages: English

Guru: Bukiwe

Registered on 31 October 2023

Hello ...am Bukiwe the Western Cape qualified tourist guide I started to guide in 2017.Come and join me on the 1:30hour City and Bo-kaap walking tour which you will learn a lot about it's diverse culture and traditions and You also learn about diffrerent tribes that settled here and made this city so beautiful and its apartheid to democracy and also it's achitecture.

Free reservation and cancellation

Pay-what-you-want tour, no set price, reservation and cancellation are free

Tour description

Welcome to an immersive two-hour walking tour of Cape Towns historic CBD and colourful Bokaap! During this brief journey, we'll uncover some of the intriguing aspects that make this city so beautiful.

Our adventure begins near the Castle of Good Hope where we will talk about the diffrerent tribes that settled in the Cape Colony including the indeginous people of the Cape to whom the area was home to before European seafarers and explorers set foot on our shores. Our tour is about History and achitecture of Cape Town including our journey from Apartheid to Democracy. We will also visit the
Bo-kaap which today remains predominantly a Muslim neighborhood. This colourful and historic muslim enclave has a deep history that dates back to the 1760s and is the location of the oldest Mosque in South Africa and the birth place of Cape Malay cuisine. Cape Malay cuisine is an authentic cuisine influenced by Islamic traditional cooking and a mix of East African and South African flavours. A favourite treat here is the famous koesister. The bokaap is mosaic of colour and an instagrammers paradise. Join me on a time travel of history and colour as we together discover bokaap and modern Cape Town.

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

Market House, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

I will be at Green Market Square by Central Methodist Church wearing white shirt and biege pants.

Outside visit

Auwal Masjid

Here we will talk about the muslim community and where they derived from and when the houses were built and talk aboutAlwal Majid whis is the first mosque in South Africa

Outside visit

151 Longmarket Street

We first meet and do our introduction at Green market Squarewhich is the second square in South Africa that that the dutch farmers use to sell their fruit and vegetables and talk about the buildings around the square

Outside visit

St George's Cathedral

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).