PRIVATE TOUR ONLY
Duration: 8 hours (approx)
Starting from USD 280 pp / ZAR 4484 pp
Book via info@coffeebeansroutes.com
Highlights
- Insight into indigenous origins
- District Six Museum
- BoKaap
- Local food tasters
- Table Mountain
Inclusions
- Local tasters
- Mineral water
- Entrance fees
- Private guide
- Collection from and return to accommodation (if centrally located)
- Table Mountain cableway tickets
Exclusions
- Discretionary tips
- Lunch
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 epicentre of Cape town, but it is where the story of the city begins.
This full day journey puts guest in touch with the city’s earliest days as the home of the Khoesan, right through to today. It’s not widely known, even by Capetonians, that the nation’s first banks started here; that Cape Town’s origins as a commercial city are in water; that the indigenous name for the city 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 to cover the widest diversity of the stories that have defined the city.
We include District Six and the District Six Museum, as well as the old slave quarter, the Bo Kaap, and key parts of the historic inner city. Sometimes, if time allows, we will include the Slave Lodge.
We spend the morning on Table Mountain. It is great to start the experience with an aerial view of the city as a whole, giving guests a chance to map the city in their heads. There is plenty of time to get away from the masses and experience the quiet and splendour of this ancient rock formation, one of the energy centres of the planet.
The tour takes place on foot, with parts by vehicle.
A typical itinerary could be:
- 09h00 Guests are collected at their accommodation
- 09h35 – 1235 Table Mountain
- 13h00 Lunch at one of our favourite city eateries, focusing on traditional food
- 14h00 A walking tour of the Bokaap, exploring the slave origins of the city (forced removals from other countries to the Cape) and sampling some local snacks
- 15h00 The District Six Museum, exploring forced removals internally from the city to the townships
- 16h00 Collin Meyer indigenous musician and poet in the Company Gardens
- 17h00 Back to centrally located accommodation
