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Bicycle or Tuk Tuk Soweto Guided Experience

By Thiya Tours and Safaris
10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is $96 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

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

Activity location

  • Johannesburg
    • Johannesburg, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Johannesburg
    • Johannesburg, South Africa

Check availability


2 hour Bicycle tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Walking tour in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 4 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from hotel and back is provided
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$95.50 x 2 Adults$191.00

Total
Price is $191.00
2 Hour -Tuk tuk tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Walking tour in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 4 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from hotel and back is provided
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$112.55 x 2 Adults$225.10

Total
Price is $225.10
4 hour Bicycle tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Walking in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 6 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from hotel and back is provided
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$115.96 x 2 Adults$231.92

Total
Price is $231.92
4 hour - Tuk tuk tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Walking tour in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 6 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from Hotel and back is provided
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$136.42 x 2 Adults$272.84

Total
Price is $272.84
Tuk Tuk Soweto Half day Guided Experience
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Walking tour in Shantytown
Guided tour
Duration: 4 hours
Lunch
Round trip : Transport from hotel and back is provided
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$136.42 x 2 Adults$272.84

Total
Price is $272.84

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate transportation
  • What's includedWhat's includedBottled water
  • What's includedWhat's includedUse of Tuk tuk
  • What's includedWhat's includedLunch
  • What's includedWhat's includedEnglish speaking guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedAir-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedUse of bicycle
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedPersonal Purchases
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSoft drinks

Know before you book

  • 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

Activity itinerary

Johannesburg
  • 30m
Pick up from your hotel, welcome, general introduction and itinerary briefing
Lebo's Soweto Backpackers
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
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.
Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
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
Vilakazi Street
  • 20m
The 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.
Mandela House
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Explore 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.
Orlando Towers
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
The 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
Lebo's Soweto Backpackers
  • 20m
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
Johannesburg
  • 30m
After this wonderful and fascinating experience you will be dropped at your hotel in Johannesburg

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESJohannesburg
    • Johannesburg, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEJohannesburg
    • Johannesburg, South Africa

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