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Bicycle or Tuk Tuk Soweto Guided Experience
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
$103.51
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
Soweto pulses with vibrant culture and rich history, inviting you to explore its streets on an exhilarating bicycle tour. This immersive experience showcases the heart of South Africa’s townships, blending adventure with deep cultural insights.
- 🚴♂️ 2-Hour Bicycle Tour: Pedal through the iconic Vilakazi Street, once home to Nobel Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, and soak in the lively atmosphere.
- 👣 Guided Walking Tour in Shantytown: Discover the everyday life of locals on a brief walking tour, where your guide shares stories of resilience and community.
- 🍽️ Enjoy a delicious lunch at the Boma & Outdoor Restaurant, featuring traditional stews and curries served with freshly made bread or maize porridge.
- 🗣️ Benefit from the expertise of an English-speaking guide who will enrich your understanding of Soweto's history and culture.
- 🏛️ Visit the Hector Pieterson Museum, a poignant memorial to the 1976 student uprising, and learn about the struggles against apartheid.
- 🏠 Explore Mandela House, where you’ll see exhibits that celebrate the life and legacy of South Africa's beloved former president.
- 🌆 Experience the vibrant energy of Orlando Towers, a local landmark where you can try the famous Soweto Gold beer.
- 🚐 Enjoy round-trip transport from your hotel in Johannesburg, ensuring a hassle-free journey to and from this unforgettable experience.
- 💧 Stay hydrated with complimentary bottled water provided throughout your tour.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
2 hour Bicycle tour
Walking tour in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 4 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from hotel and back is provided
Pickup included
Walking tour in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 4 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from hotel and back is provided
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 4 hours
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Private door-to-door transportation to and from the experience.
- Full buffet lunch at the Backpacker’s Lodge Boma & Outdoor Restaurant featuring open-fire potjiekos (stews), traditional braai (barbecue), pap, side salads, and fresh-steamed bread.
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Well-maintained bicycle (or tuk-tuk, if preferred) along with helmet and all necessary safety gear
- Guide Services - Local guide leading the bicycle tour and the optional shantytown walking tour.
- All entrance fees, including access to the historic Mandela House.
- Bottled water
- Soft drinks
- Personal Purchases
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JohannesburgPick up from your hotel, welcome, general introduction and itinerary briefing
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Our guide will drive straight to Soweto, depending on the starting time of tour, you may have lunch before or after the tour. Our guide will help you report to Backpacker’s reception, your bicycles or tuk tuks will get prepared for you. The program Guides will welcome and brief about the tour.
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Hector Pieterson Museum and MemorialA self guided tour this Museum chronicling the 1976 Soweto student uprising and named after one of its victims a thirteen year old boy. The museum today is a symbol of resistance against the brutality of the apartheid regime
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Vilakazi StreetThe thriving heart of Soweto is one of the most well-known streets in South Africa, Vilakazi Street. While Vilakazi Street may be the only street in the world that can claim to have had two Nobel Laureates as residents - the late Nelson Mandela and late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The true electricity of this street comes from those who now call it home, each with their own beautiful stories. Enjoy welcoming Zulu and Tswana traditional dances on Vilakazi Street and get a chance to shop on African hand made artefacts sold on the streets.
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Mandela HouseExplore in a guided tour the exhibits and artefacts in a previous house of the nation's revered former president Nelson Mandela. This house been entrenched as one of South Africa's most significant heritage sites, it tells the tales and stories in sound, film, interpretive panels and guided tours.
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Orlando TowersThe two cooling towers are a prominent landmark in Soweto. Now used as an entertainment center housing a famous Bungee jump and a barbecue restaurant. Get to taste the famous locally brewed Soweto Gold beer. Visit a Shantytown on a guided tour. The site guides will take on a 10 minute walking tour explaining to you about general life of people living in Shantys
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The bicycle or Tuk Tuk tour will end back to where you started. You will meet our guide who will drive you back to your hotel in Johannesburg
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JohannesburgAfter this wonderful and fascinating experience you will be dropped at your hotel in Johannesburg
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Bicycle or Tuk Tuk Soweto Guided Experience
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
$103.51
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!