Popular with all ages and art tastes, this walking tour covers a wide range of street art. Salt River, a small neighbourhood, has the best and most street art in the Mother City. Style, size and subject range enormously. The area is full of history and is changing all the time with development. It was...
Get to know Cape Town’s bustling, diverse and dynamic past and present – this walking tour is great if you are new to Cape Town or wish to know it better. Classic must-sees are mixed with hidden gems. Repurposed historic buildings, architectural landmarks, hidden away art spaces, new developments...we'll see the good, bad, ugly and...
Get to know Cape Town’s bustling, diverse and dynamic past and present – this walking tour is great if you are new to Cape Town or wish to know it better. Classic must-sees are mixed with hidden gems. Repurposed historic buildings, architectural landmarks, hidden away art spaces, new developments...we'll see the good, bad, ugly and...
Salt River, with over 100 murals, is the best place to see street art in the Mother City. From gigantic to tiny, political to pretty - the variety is huge. Home to the annual International Public Art Festival for five years (I am one of their guides), new murals are being commissioned by the Salt...
Esther Esmyol, who curates and created this award winning exhibition, leads this tour. As the Iziko curator responsible for ceramics, Esther is one of country's leading experts on ceramic works. She has worked with this national collection for many decades. FIRED - an exhibition of South African ceramics is a semi-permanent exhibition is in the...
Enjoy stories about the harbour with author, educationist and maritime historian, Brian Ingpen. Brian has loved visiting the Waterfront since he was a child living in Pinelands, he is now a retired teacher and writer of his weekly shipping column in the Cape Times. He knows the harbour like the back of his hand and...
Bilqees Baker's walking tours are a hit. Her knowledge is coupled with fascinating stories, history and views about living in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town's oldest cluster of homes. We'll go inside a mosque and hear about the colourful houses and community concerns - the hoards of tourists, high rise property developers and the cost of...
Jeanne Bonnema's carefully researched and popular tour includes a wide range of stories about the Castle - secret army activities during WW2, bomb during Apartheid, her own slave ancestry, for example. We visit a range of places spanning the Dutch East India Company's buildings to the British small jail to the newish Camissa Museum. Cost:...
Clare Burgess' highly enjoyable and informative walk is back by popular demand. Cape Town's central green lung is full of a variety of trees, stories and landscaping design styles. Some of the plants date back hundreds of years, others have recently been planted. Initially a farm created and maintained by enslaved labour in the 17th...
A first - researched and led by Brett McDougall, Adderley Street is the nearest Cape Town gets to a high street. It was the place for the smart, department stores and bank main branches. We will walk mainly on Adderley Street but also streets leading leading to and from it. Brett has spent most of...
This area is full history and gradual changes. The buildings and landscape are highly maintained in one part, and in another unused and overgrown. Tourist guide, Dr Timothy Visser, has been studying it for years - he has lived nearby in Somerset West all his life. He has access to the old, large hostel compound,...
