Duration: 8 hours
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Johannesburg, Apartheid museum and Soweto tour.
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Duration - 8 hours
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Guide optionsEnglish
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Overview
Johannesburg, Apartheid museum and Soweto tour. This is a tour that gives the guests detailed information about apartheid, the birth of Johannesburg and the different cultural groups found in Soweto. Here you will learn about the South African history and culture.
Highlights
- Educational tour.
- Learn the history
- Learn the cultures
- Local food and drink.
Description
Johannesburg, Apartheid museum and Soweto tour.
From the hotel or any given pick up point, you will be picked up by a professional driver guide.
We shall drive through the affluent part of Johannesburg, the Houghton Estates. This is where you will see the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and the two houses which where once occupied by Nelson Mandela.
Our next stop will be at the Constitutional Hill. Once a notorious jail but now is home to the highest court in the country. This jail was divided into black and white sections.
We shall proceed to the apartheid museum. This is the best museum with the recent history of our country relating to the segregation system. Here you will learn about how bad that system was, more especially to the black population.
Soweto is a township. Areas like Soweto are those areas which where allocated to the black people during the times of segregation. this is a multi cultural township. During the apartheid times, Soweto was the heart of the struggle and home to many activists. Today Soweto stands as a historical township with a number of historical sites, such as the Mandela museum, the Hector Peterson memorial, the Walter Sisulu Square of dedication and a few others.
What's included
- Inclusions:
- Transport,clean,air-conditioned and fully serviced.
- One bottle of water per guest.
- Entry fees to Mandela museum and Hector Peterson Memorial.
- Registered and professional tour guide.
- Private tour.
- Exclusions:
- Entry fees to the apartheid museum and Constitutional Hill.
- Lunch.
- Snacks
- Drinks.
Itinerary
- Visited Places:
- Houghton Estate
- Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct
- Newtown
- Apartheid Museum
- Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
- SOWETO TOWERS
- Vilakazi Street
- Mandela's House
- Hector Pieterson Memorial
08:30 hotel pick.
Drive through the Houghton Estate.
Quick stops for pictures at Mandela's 2 houses and The Mandela Centre of memory.
09:00 Constitutional hill.
This was once a jail that witnessed the torture, humiliation and deaths of soo many black people during those troublesome times. Now it is the home to the Constitutional court.
1 hour guided tour.
10:15 depart Conhill and drive through Braamfontein, over the Nelson Mandela Bridge into downtown, Newtown area of Street art.
Quick stop for pictures.
10:45 Apartheid museum.
2 hours tour.
13:00 Soweto township.
Drive through the affluent parts, shanty towns, Bara hospital, Orlando towers, Vilakazi street, Mandela museum Tutu house, Hector Peterson memorial.
There is an option for lunch stop in Soweto.
Also you can walk freely on the one and only street in the world which has been the home to 2 peace Nobel prize winners, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
13:30 Mandela museum.
This is the house he stayed in with his first and second wives. But one at a time.
15 minutes guided tour.
14:00 The Hector Peterson memorial.
This is a museum dedicated to the children of Soweto and the country at large for them to stand bravely against the armed forces of that cruel government. More than 560 children died during this uprising.
Walk through the Garden of remembrance and see the picture of Hector Peterson the youngest child to be short and killed in the early moments of the uprising.
1 hour 30 minutes tour in the museum.
16:30 hotel drop off.
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