Johannesburg Tour: Cycle Soweto with a Local Guide

6 Hours

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Hotel Pickup Offered

Language Offered

Overview

Explore the highlights of Johannesburg with a two-part tour, seeing the main attractions of the city in the morning followed by a bike tour of Soweto in the afternoon.Please note: the cycling portion of this tour will be about two hours. The full duration time of the tour is to cover pick-ups and drop-offs, as well as pre-cycle preparation time.

Enjoy entertaining insights from an expert guide
Ride through Soweto on a bike tour to see the community up close
Enjoy the atmosphere of a local Soweto shebeen bar over a drink and a game of pool
Ride down Vilakazi Street and past the sites of the 1976 student uprising

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Departure & Return

What To Expect

Discover the colour, energy, and history of vibrant Soweto during this Johannesburg bike tour. Hop on two wheels to explore the streets of the colourful region that more than three million people call home. As you ride along, your local guide will take you through the history of Soweto as well as into current developments and life today. With locals speaking all of the 11 official languages of South Africa, see if you can pick up a few local phrases to greet people while riding through the streets.You'll start at Lebo's Soweto Backpackers and head to your first stop: a look-out point that takes in Orlando West and East. View the surroundings of the township, including the home grounds of the famous soccer team, the Orlando Pirates. From there, your next stop is Mzimhlophe Men's Hostel "“ a former migrant workers' hostel. You'll learn how men from around the country moved to Johannesburg and its townships to work in the gold mines, and the conditions they lived in "” as well as how this area has now transformed to become a Soweto community today. In this area, many locals still practice traditional African customs, and you'll learn all about their beliefs and traditions.Your Soweto tour then continues via Meadowlands to the memorial site of Hector Pieterson, commemorating the uprisings on 16 June 1976, when hundreds of children and youths lost their lives while protesting the Apartheid education system.From there, you'll continue on to Vilakazi Street, where you'll stop at Nelson Mandela's former home, and the home of Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, to learn more about these icons' contributions to a free and democratic South Africa. This will be the last stop of the tour, and from there, you'll cycle back to Lebo's, where you can take in more of Soweto, the community, and its people.Please note: the cycling portion of this tour will be about two hours. The full duration time of the tour is to cover pick-ups and drop-offs, as well as pre-cycle preparation time.

Johannesburg Tour: Cycle Soweto with a Local Guide

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Departure & Return

What To Expect

Hotel Pickup

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