Coffeebeans Routes

City Tour Cape Town

This half-day tour puts the guest in touch with Cape Town's earliest days as the home of the Khoekhoe, right through to today.

PRIVATE TOUR ONLY
Duration: 4 hours (approx)
Starting from USD 250 pp / ZAR 3791 pp

Book via info@coffeebeansroutes.com


Highlights

  • Camissa, the indigenous city
  • District Six Museum
  • Bokaap
  • Local food tasters
  • Specialist guest host to provide deeper insights into the city

Inclusions

  • Tastings of local snacks
  • Mineral water
  • Entrance fees
  • Private guide
  • Collection from and return to centrally located accommodation

Exclusions

  • Discretionary tips
  • Lunch

Best suited for guests that 

  • seek an indigenous and black focused narrative of the city, beyond the colonial gaze
  • are looking for more than an orientation
  • wish to understand how the city as a whole fits together
  • like to ‘move the centre’

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Political History Walking Tour

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 no longer the epicentre of Cape town, but it is where the story of the city begins.

This half-day city tour puts the guest in touch with its very earliest days as the home of the Khoekhoe, right through to today. It’s not widely known, even by Capetonians, that the nation’s first banks started here; that Cape Town’s start as a commercial city began with water; that the indigenous name for the city was is Camissa, which means `place of sweet waters’; 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 District Six and the District Six Museum, the old slave quarter, the Bokaap, and key parts of the historic inner city.

Want to include Table Mountain?
Book our
City and Table Mountain Tour

 

The tour is lead by a qualified, experienced and knowledgeable guide, but the guide is not the sole voice. Every tour we bring in a specialist who brings to life the indigenous stories of the city, or somebody who brings deep perspective on the future of the city, or someone who can illuminate 

Guests are collected from and returned to their centrally located accommodation.

In the Media

NEW YORK TIMES
"...authenticity ...an adventure"
TIME MAGAZINE
"A cultural treasure hunt"
NEW YORK TIMES
"A Culinary Gateway to Cape Town"
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
"A fascinating window on life"
SUNDAY TIMES UK
"A new & novel way to get inside the city"
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
"...an especially rich experience"