🏨 Soweto half day tour with Private Pick up and Drop off Activity

Soweto half day tour with Private Pick up and Drop off

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Departs: Johannesburg, Johannesburg

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

Overview

Our tours are conducted by Proffessional experienced tour guides committed to full customer satisfaction.
You will experience how some communities in Soweto are still in need of development and poverty alleviation and how some communities have turned into smart affluent Suburbs.
This tour gives you insight about Soweto’s different faces.
For transportation we use comfortable air conditioned vehicles.
Our guided tour pass the Biggest hospital in Southern Africa Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital and
the Soweto landmark Orlando towers on our way to Hector Pieterson memorial museum.The tour proceed to the popular tourist attraction Vilakazi street where Mandela house is situated.
We give you an opportunity to do the tour of this house in order to learn more about the statesman.

What's Included

Entrance ticket to Hector Pieterson museum.

Entrance ticket to Mandela House

Guided tour through key tourist attractions

Private pick up and drop off at your address in a standard air conditioned vehicle

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Items of personal interest

Lunch and snacks are available on own account at one of the local restaurants

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 10 - 11
YOUTH: Age: 12 - 35
ADULT: Age: 36 - 65
SENIOR: Age: 66 - 99

Additional Info

COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

All our drivers and guides got their Covid 19 vaccines. Wearing of masks is no more mandatory in our country,however we advise our guests to wear masks if they feel feverish.
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Our professional tour guide will pick you up from your address and enter Soweto through Diepkloof Extension and upmarket area built largely for professionals employed by the government and privately employed professionals.The area here is called the " the rich man's acre" by the residents.In response to political instability, the government introduced some reforms, including establishing upper class neighborhood in townships for wealthier people.We stop at Diepkloof hostels and family units.The project of demolishing hostels to be replaced by family units was initiated by the late President Mandela to cater for the poor families and migrant workers from other provinces in South Africa.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Orlando Towers

From Diepkloof Extension we pass Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital the third largest hospital in the world after the two largest hospitals in China.We stop alongside Johannesburg university Soweto campus for the better view of Orlando towers and for taking pictures.Orlando towers is one of the distinctive landmarks in the neighborhoods of Soweto. The towers were cooling towers for the coal run power station supplying electricity to Johannesburg after the second world war.over 50 years.The station was closed in 1998, and transformed into entertainment and business center in 2008.
The towers are completely covered with brightly coloured murals.One tower depicts scenes and images from Soweto culture and the other one with corporate branding of South Africa's vodacom mobile network.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial

On our way to Hector Pieterson memorial museum we pass Kliptown squatter camp to share information and for taking pictures. You will experience how some areas in Soweto are still impoverished and need government assistance.
At Hector Pieterson we do the tour of Hector Pieterson memorial museum.
Hector Pieterson memorial museum
depicts the 1976 Soweto Students' Uprisings and the struggle for democracy in South Africa.
The museum interprets the memory, legacy,and history of the 1976 students' uprisings through film, newspapers, personal accounts and photographs.You do the tour of this museum.
We give you time to browse the flea market selling Curios, Beaded work, and African clothing at Hector Pieterson.
You can sit for light lunch at the nearby restaurant.
Alternatively you can have South African buffet lunch at Sakhumzi restaurant in Vilakazi street. Lunch is OPTIONAL

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Vilakazi Street

From Hector Pieterson memorial we drive to Vilakazi street, the popular attraction in Soweto for both locals and International guests full of vibes.
The houses of the two Nobel Prize winners former president Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Tutu are situated in this street.
We give you time to walk on this street.You can browse the flea market selling curios, beaded work and African clothing.
Sakhumzi restaurant is situated in Vilakazi street near Mandela House.People come from all over the world to taste the Kasi flavor Buffet lunch.
The restaurant is popular for serving proudly South African traditional cuisine such as Samp combined with beans, Steamed bread, Sour sorghum porridge and maize porridge.Other dishes sold at this restaurant include: Beef stew, Mutton stew, Roasted chicken, Sausages, veggies, assorted salads and desert.
Lunch is optional, you can sit for lunch at this restaurant alternatively you can have light lunch at an alternative restaurant.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Mandela House

You do the tour of Mandela House in Vilakazi street.
Mandela lived in this house before his life imprisonment. Nelson Mandela’s former house provides an effective, efficient and meaningful experience to all visitors, informing them of the former President Nelson Mandela's story in the context of his life as a whole, in a manner that promotes Human rights, Democracy, Reconciliation, Mutual respect and tolerance among the people of South Africa.
Mandela House went through major restoration and restructuring project..
You will have time to browse the flea market in Vilakazi street selling curios,Beaded work and African clothing.
Sakhumzi restaurant is serving proudly South African traditional buffet lunch. You can sit for lunch at this restaurant; alternatively you can have light lunch at an alternative restaurant.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

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