Free tour

🌟 Cape Town's history and stories: From vines & markets to Mandela

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Cape Town

Duration: 2 hours

Languages: English

Guru: Marianne

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Registered on 15 March 2025

Welcome to Cape Town—the Mother City with soul, spice, and serious style! I’m your local guide and storyteller, ready to take you on unforgettable adventures. From feasting on flavour-packed Cape Malay dishes to sipping award-winning wines in the winelands, exploring centuries of history, vibing with street art, and road-tripping to meet our famous penguins—there’s magic around every corner. ✨ Ready to explore? Book your spot now and let’s make memories in Cape Town!

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

Tour description

🌟 Cape Town's History and Stories: From Vines & Markets to Mandela

Walk through Cape Town’s streets and uncover a mix of history, culture, flavour, and quirky tales that make the Mother City so unique.

From the oldest living vine in the Southern Hemisphere (1771) to Bunny Chow and vibrant markets, Gothic churches turned coffee shops, and Mandela’s historic balcony — this tour is a journey through time with a taste of today.

🌟 Highlights

🍇 The 1771 vine, still producing wine today

🚶 Bree Street – voted one of the world’s coolest streets in 2024

🛍️ Greenmarket Square – farmers’ market turned African art hub

⛪ Gothic-style Methodist Church with a coffee shop

💐 Trafalgar Place & the colourful flower sellers

🏢 Mutual House – Art Deco gem with a fascinating past

🍛 Taste a local Bunny Chow at Eastern Bazaar

⏰ City Hall with “Baby Ben” & Mandela’s statue

📖 District Six Museum & stories of resilience

☕ Truth Coffee – steampunk and world-famous brews

🙏 Groote Kerk & the Slave Lodge

🪡 Spin Street’s silkworm frenzy

🌈 The Arch for the Arch, honouring Desmond Tutu

🏛️ Parliament, Tuynhuys & Queen Victoria

🌳 Mulberry & Pear Saffron trees, silent witnesses of history

👉 Why join this tour?

Cape Town is about flavours, voices, and stories and we are giving you the perfect mix of history and food. Come and join - we are waiting..........See you soon!

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

Heritage Square, 94 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

Meet your guide, Marianne — rocking her Tourist badge with pride — in front of Simply Asia restaurant, Heritage Square, 94 Shortmarket street! We’re kicking things off with a delicious Cape Malay bite to get your taste buds dancing, then it’s off to explore the buzzing streets, bold stories and hidden gems of the one-and-only Cape Town. Get ready for flavor, fun, and a whole lot of photo ops!

Outside visit

Simply Asia, 94 Shortmarket str, Heritage Square, Cape Town

Meet your guide, Marianne - rocking her Tourist badge with pride in front of Simply Asia Restaurant, Heritage square, 94 Shortmarket street. We're kicking things off with a delicious Cape Malay bite to get your taste buds dancing, then it is off to explore the colorful streets, bold stories and hidden gems of the one-and-only Cape Town. Get ready for flavour, fun and a whole lot of photo ops!

Outside visit

Cape Heritage Hotel, 90 Bree str, Cape Town

Welcome to Cape Heritage Square, home to the oldest living vine in the Southern Hemisphere! 🌍 Planted back in 1771, this graceful old lady has survived centuries of storms, sunshine, and stories — and she still produces enough grapes each year to make about 10 bottles of wine 🍷. Imagine, a taste of history in every glass! 🕰️ From this very courtyard, where roots run deep and cobblestones whisper the past, we’ll set off together 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ to uncover Cape Town’s hidden gems 💎 and secret corners 🗝️

Outside visit

90 Bree Street, Cape Town

Welcome to Bree Street — the word ‘Bree’ comes from Dutch, meaning ‘broad’ or ‘wide’ 🛣️. Back in the day, this was one of the widest streets in Cape Town, perfect for wagons, traders, and townsfolk bustling through the city 🐴. Fast forward to today, and Bree Street has transformed into the beating heart of cool — lined with art galleries 🎨, buzzing coffee spots ☕, cocktail bars 🍸, and foodie heavens 🍴. In 2024, it was even ranked number 11 on the list of the coolest and funkiest streets in the world.

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 €15 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).