The streets of Cape City is full of tradition, historical past, artwork and native peculiarities. Among the finest methods to expertise town is to get out of your automobile and stroll, cycle or skate via town’s streets, and uncover it on a extra intimate degree. Listed here are some excursions that offers you a very completely different perspective of the Mom Metropolis.
Strolling Excursions
Among the finest methods to see Cape City is on foot, since you miss so many issues whereas driving in a taxi, bus or automobile. As a result of Cape City is comparatively small in comparison with many different cities around the globe, it’s excellent for strolling. Normally free, and led by knowledgeable guides, there are a selection of excursions to select from:
Historic Metropolis Stroll
Offered by the identical people who run the Metropolis Sightseeing bus excursions, this 90-minute strolling tour runs twice a day from the Lengthy Avenue ticket workplace. The guides will share many attention-grabbing tales concerning the metropolis’s vibrant historical past, from the occasions of slavery to post-apartheid Cape City, together with slave buying and selling on Inexperienced Market Sq., the sight of Nelson Mandela’s first speech as a free man, and plenty of others.
Web site: www.citysightseeing.co.za
The Bo-Kaap Stroll
One other one of many three strolling excursions offered by the Metropolis Sightseeing guides is the Bo-Kaap Stroll. Identified for its brightly colored homes, conventional Cape Malay meals, and residential of the primary mosque in Cape City, the tour takes you thru the cobbled streets of this cultural gem of a neighbourhood. The 60-minute tour departs twice a day from the Lengthy Avenue ticket workplace.
Web site: www.citysightseeing.co.za/
District Six is without doubt one of the metropolis’s most culturally necessary neighbourhoods as a result of pressured removals of residents throughout apartheid. The tour will take you thru this space that was as soon as residence to artists, musicians and even gangsters, you’ll meet former residents of the ‘previous’ District Six, and be taught concerning the neighbourhood’s vibrant historical past. Excursions are 90 minutes lengthy and depart from the Metropolis Sightseeing’s Lengthy Avenue ticket workplace.
Web site: www.citysightseeing.co.za/
Biking Excursions
Biking has turn into an enormous focus for the Metropolis of Cape City, with infrastructure being developed to encourage individuals to each commute and discover town in a more healthy, extra eco-friendly means. Whereas Cape City is known for its annual Cape City Cycle Tour, you don’t need to be a professional to benefit from the metropolis’s sights by bicycle, and there are sightseeing journeys to swimsuit everybody who likes to really feel a breeze via their hair.
Cape City Metropolis Cycle Tour
Run by well-known operators, AWOL Excursions, their bicycle tour via the Mom Metropolis begins on the V&A Waterfront and winds its means via town’s streets, together with Adderley Avenue, Bo-Kaap, The Firm Gardens, Inexperienced Level Stadium and extra. An knowledgeable native information will share insights concerning the metropolis’s historical past and tradition as you go alongside, offering a novel view of our stunning metropolis. Excursions final three hours and price R500 per individual and are appropriate to all ages and health ranges.
Web site: awoltours.co.za/cape-town-city-cycle-tours/
Cape Peninsula Cycle Tour
For the extra ardent cyclists, Bikes ‘n Wines provide a 30 – 60km tour across the spectacular Cape Peninsula. An knowledgeable information will lead you round each side of the peninsula, visiting the historic naval city of Simon’s City, Cape Level Nature Reserve and wine tasting and picnic at Cape Level Vineyards. The tour prices R1 300 per individual and consists of transfers from the CBD, bicycle and helmet rental, gentle refreshments, a connoisseur picnic and wine tasting.
Web site:www.bikesnwines.com/
One thing completely different
Get in a spherical of golf
Cape City is without doubt one of the world’s premier golf locations with quite a lot of world class golf programs to get pleasure from. What higher solution to see the Mom Metropolis than from the fairways and the greens? From stunning winelands estates, to suburban hyperlinks, African Eagle Excursions affords a lot of completely different packages so that you can discover town, whereas getting your golf repair on the identical time.
Web site: daytours.co.za/excursions/cape-town-golf-tours
Cape Camino
The Cape Camino shouldn’t be the primary of its type. The concept got here from the Camino de Santiago in Spain, however whereas it follows the same format, the journey is as completely different as Cape City is to Santiago, pulling within the variety of the area, each by way of pure magnificence and tradition. The total route is seven days lengthy and varieties the determine ∞, the image of Infinity, however ‘pilgrims’ taking over the Camino don’t have to do it to completion, permitting for ease of motion and for a visit that’s extra about you than the street you stroll. It’s your stroll, so that you get to stroll your means.
Web site: www.capecamino.co.za
Metropolis Skateboard Tour
For the extra adventurous amongst us, the blokes at Metropolis Cycle Excursions will take you on a one-of-a-kind tour of town on a skateboard (or scooter in the event you’re a bit nervous on a skateboard). Led by knowledgeable skateboarder Pedro, the tour winds its means from Inexperienced Level Stadium, alongside town’s standard Inexperienced Level promenade after which again via Cape City. The tour lasts three-to-four hours and prices R360 per individual.
Web site: citycycletours.co.za/city-skateboard-tour/
VoiceMap
If teams of individuals and timed excursions aren’t your factor, then why not strive VoiceMap? Developed proper right here in Cape City, this GPS-driven app is gaining reputation around the globe. VoiceMap affords customers a myriad of excursions starting from street-art excursions, a maritime-themed strolling tour, and even a tour of the sleepy browsing suburb of Muizenberg, and plenty of extra – all excursions are guided by the narratives of locals, and since it’s primarily based in your location, you’ll be able to go as rapidly or slowly as you need. The app affords excursions that rang in price from free to $5.99 (for excursions in Cape City) and there are excursions all around the globe, from New York Metropolis to Paris, Berlin, Istanbul to Copenhagen and Athens.
Web site: voicemap.me/tour/cape-town
