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Bicycle or Tuk Tuk Soweto Guided Experience

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240 minutes
English

Explore a Soweto Guided cultural experience on a bicycle and an optional guided walking tour in a Shantytown. This tour offers a wide variety of entertainment for both young and old. Cycle on Vilakazi Street, once home to two Noble Prize winners the late Nelson Mandela and late Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Experience welcoming traditional dances on this street. Visit the Hector Peterson Museum and Mandela House. Experience the rich cultural heritage of South Africa's townships on this tour. Meet friendly locals, learn about the vibrant history, and immerse yourself in the colorful atmosphere of these fascinating communities. Lunch at the Boma & Outdoor Restaurant at the Backpacker’s Lodge is a unique cultural experience. Stews, known as “potjie” in Afrikaans, and curries are prepared on a fire and served with traditional steamed bread. An alternative to bread is “pap” or maize porridge buffet served with various stews, a traditional barbeque, referred to as a “braai”, and side salads

Options

2 hour Bicycle tour

2 Hour -Tuk tuk tour

4 hour Bicycle tour

4 hour - Tuk tuk tour

Tuk Tuk Soweto Half day Guided Experience

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

From$98.18Per Person

What's included in Bicycle or Tuk Tuk Soweto Guided Experience

(Subject to Option Inclusions)

Itinerary

Johannesburg

Pick up from your hotel, welcome, general introduction and itinerary briefing

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.

Admission Ticket Included

Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial

A 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

Admission Ticket Not Included

Inclusions

  • Private transportation
  • Bottled water
  • Use of Tuk tuk
  • Lunch
  • English speaking guide
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Use of bicycle
  • Personal Purchases
  • Soft drinks
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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Pickup and Dropoff

Choose to be picked up from a list of locations

Please arrive at the pick up point 30 minutes before departure time.

Additional Information

Guests to meet the guide at the hotel concierge or communicate on What's app to specify pick up-point

Redeem

Ticket Redemption

Direct access

Operator

Thiya Tours and Safaris