Private Tour: Bicycle Township Tour in Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Trip Type: Bike & Mountain Bike Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Gain insight into the changing urban dynamic of Cape Town on this bicycle township tour guided by a local. You will get to see traditional dancing by a Sangoma (traditional healer), visit a creche/ day care and have lunch at a local restaurant, either Nongoloza's or Nonny's. 10% of tour proceeds go towards Masicorp, an NGO dedicated to improving lives of the people in the local community. Choose to meet your guide at the starting point or to be picked up form your hotel.
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Gain insight into the changing urban dynamic of Cape Town on this bicycle township tour guided by a local. You will get to see traditional dancing by a Sangoma (traditional healer), visit a creche/ day care and have lunch at a local restaurant, either Nongoloza's or Nonny's. 10% of tour proceeds go towards Masicorp, an NGO dedicated to improving lives of the people in the local community. Choose to meet your guide at the starting point or to be picked up form your hotel.Choose to either be picked up from their accommodation and dropped back after the tour, or alternatively meet up at a designated starting location if you choose to self drive.
The tour offers an opportunity to interact with the local community. What better way to understand township lifestyle, than to have first hand experience in the township and have direct interaction with the locals. The local tour guide will give a brief political and cultural background of the community. A visit to the Sangoma (traditional healer) where you can try traditional beer, watch Sangomas dancing and preparing traditional herbs.
Then head off to one of the day care centres we support, where you'll be met with excitement and enthusiasm by the children and warmly welcomed by the caregivers. After the swift stop and go rides between the streets lined with a mixture of shacks and block houses. The final stop would then be to a local restaurant for a bite of African food.
The tour offers an opportunity to interact with the local community. What better way to understand township lifestyle, than to have first hand experience in the township and have direct interaction with the locals. The local tour guide will give a brief political and cultural background of the community. A visit to the Sangoma (traditional healer) where you can try traditional beer, watch Sangomas dancing and preparing traditional herbs.
Then head off to one of the day care centres we support, where you'll be met with excitement and enthusiasm by the children and warmly welcomed by the caregivers. After the swift stop and go rides between the streets lined with a mixture of shacks and block houses. The final stop would then be to a local restaurant for a bite of African food.
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