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The Village in the City: A Self-Guided Audio Tour of Bo-Kaap
The Village in the City: An Audio Walking Tour of Bo-Kaap
Houses are painted in bright and colourful ways in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town's city edge district

The Village in the City: A Self-Guided Audio Tour of Bo-Kaap

By VoiceMap Audio Tours
Price is S$7 per adult
Features
  • 1h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Explore the Bo-Kaap with one of its renowned residents Shereen Habib. Starting at the Bo-Kaap Museum, wind your way past the neighborhood’s major sites and secret corners on old cobbled streets. You’ll visit the oldest mosque in South Africa and learn the real significance behind the Tana Baru Cemetery. Shereen’s intimate knowledge and unique humour reveals a living history of the Bo-Kaap that cannot be found anywhere else. The tour is ready whenever you are. It plays audio automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.

Bo-kaaps brightly painted houses provide excellent photography throughout, and there’s also a great lunch eatery where you can sample ridiculously tasty Cape Malay cuisine. Start the tour in the app, put your phone in your pocket, and let Shereen direct you through the streets. The total walking distance is 1km and takes about a half hour without stopping, but you can pause anytime!

Activity location

  • Bo-kaap
    • Cape Town Central, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum
    • 71 Wale Street
    • 8001, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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The Village in the City: A Self-Guided Audio Tour of Bo-Kaap in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 1 hour1h1h
  • Opening hours: Sat 0:00-23:59
  • English

Explore the Bo-Kaap with one of its renowned residents Shereen Habib. Starting at the Bo-Kaap Museum, wind your way past the neighborhood’s major sites and secret corners on old cobbled streets. You’ll visit the oldest mosque in South Africa and learn the real significance behind the Tana Baru Cemetery. Shereen’s intimate knowledge and unique humour reveals a living history of the Bo-Kaap that cannot be found anywhere else. The tour is ready whenever you are. It plays audio automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.

Bo-kaaps brightly painted houses provide excellent photography throughout, and there’s also a great lunch eatery where you can sample ridiculously tasty Cape Malay cuisine. Start the tour in the app, put your phone in your pocket, and let Shereen direct you through the streets. The total walking distance is 1km and takes about a half hour without stopping, but you can pause anytime!

Price details
S$7.14 x 1 AdultS$7.14

Total
Price is S$7.14

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedVoiceMap Application
  • What's includedWhat's includedOffline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • What's includedWhat's includedLifetime access to the 'Bo-Kaap: The Village in the City' tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSmartphone
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransport
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood/drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Bo-kaap
  • 1h
Explore Bo-Kaap with an audio tour by Shereen Habib, an author and tour guide who has lived in this neighbourhood for most of her life.
Iziko Bo Kaap Museum (Pass by)
The tour starts at the entrance to this museum, and visitors can visit it either before of afterwards.
Auwal Mosque (Pass by)
The oldest mosque in South Africa. It still houses a handwritten copy of the Holy Quran by the mosque's first Imam which was written from memory while he was in jail in the late 1700's.
Kramat of Tuan Guru
  • 15m
The Tana Baru Cemetery is the resting place of South Africa’s earliest Muslim settlers.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESBo-kaap
    • Cape Town Central, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEIziko Bo-Kaap Museum
    • 71 Wale Street
    • 8001, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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