Cape Town Central

You will be collected from your Cape Town area hotel or guest house at between 8:00 and 9:00 am and drive for approximately 20 minutes to one of the city's oldest townships known to the locals as Langa (meaning ‘Sun’ in Xhosa).

Upon arrival in this township, your guide/driver will introduce you to the local resident tour guide. Your personal local guide will accompany you and your small group on a short walking tour (0.5 miles or less than a kilometre), affording opportunities to interact with locals. The walking portion will start at Gugasthebe, a tourist information centre, where various non-profit organizations teach skills to the local youth. Then, you will visit what used to be a detention centre during apartheid, before proceeding to the local shebeen or tavern, where you will learn how the local beer is made. Afterwards, you'll visit the township's entrepreneurial businesswomen who prepare barbecue (braai) meat on the streets of Langa, old and new hostels to see the transformations done by the government in order to better residents' living conditions. In the Langa market, you will spend a few minutes with a traditional doctor (optional).