Cape Rainbow Tours... - The Cape and Garden Route specialists

South Africa's townships are the heartbeat of a nation healing itself after the troubled apartheid years. Our Cape Town township tours will allow you to experience another facet of Cape Town that relatively few tourists get to see.

1. THE TOWNSHIP TOUR... - Half day (Mornings)

ONE CITY - MANY CULTURES
Experience another facet of Cape Town, one revealed to very few tourists. This intimate interactive tour will expose you to some of Cape Town's multi-cultural life - see how our spirit of Kanalah, Ubunthu and reconciliation is being played out by Capetonians.

HIGHLIGHTS:

District Six and Museum
Bo-Kaap
Manenberg
Cape Flats
Khayelitsha

This is a positive and interactive tour, which will afford the visitor the opportunity to meet and speak to the local people.

At the outset of our Cape Town township tours, tourists often discover that they did not understand the extent to which previous race classification laws fragmented our society. Many people who the visitor originally assumed were defined as Black were in fact classified as Coloured or Indian and did not live in the townships, but in other designated areas. We take our visitors into the Townships, but preserve the integrity of our tour by also introducing them to the traditional Malay Quarter known as Bo-Kaap, as well as Athlone, Rylands and District 6. These areas were defined as Coloured areas with Rylands having being defined as an Indian area.

On arrival, tourists often discover that they did not understand the extent to which previous race classification laws fragmented our society. Many people who the visitor originally assumed were defined as Black were in fact classified as Coloured or Indian and did not live in the townships, but in other designated areas. We take our visitors into the Townships, but preserve the integrity of our tour by also introducing them to the traditional Malay Quarter known as Bo-Kaap, as well as Athlone, Rylands and District 6. These areas were defined as Coloured areas with Rylands having being defined as an Indian area.

"I am devoted to ensuring that tourists who visit the townships have an enlightening, positive and entertaining experience and leave with a deeper understanding of life in the Townships." Cinga Mngqibisa

Our Guide:
Our guide is a specialist guide who was a member of a disadvantaged community and is highly knowledgeable of the areas, their people, history and politics.

Time:
This tour is offered preferentially as a morning tour, but is also offered as an afternoon tour on request.

The District 6 Museum:
Entrance fee included. Here, District 6, as it was up to 40 years ago, has been depicted with artefacts and an extensive photographic portrayal of life as it was during the pre-apartheid years.

THE TOWNSHIP AND ROBBEN ISLAND TOUR... Day Tour

Robben Island is the most famous, or infamous, for having been the isolated prison of former South African President Nelson Mandela and many other political dissidents.

Following your visit to the Cape Town Townships, this tour continues on to visit Robben Island,reaching the former prison via ferry. Former political prisoners who had been detained on the Island will act as your guides. On your return we will transfer you back to your Hotel.