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Soweto: Full Day Tour
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Soweto: Full Day Tour

By Curiocity Johannesburg
4.4 out of 5
Free cancellation available
Price is £34 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h+
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Overview
  • Marvel at "The Calabash" also known as Football City Stadium
  • Learn about the Soweto Uprising of 1976
  • Pass by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu's homes on Vilakazi Street
  • Enjoy a traditional local lunch
  • Learn about the history of apartheid in South Africa

Activity location

    • Johannesburg
    • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Curiocity Backpackers
    • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Half Day option
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English

This is the half day option excluding a visit to the Apartheid Museum

Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
£33.66 x 1 Adult£33.66

Total
Price is £33.66
Until Thu, 2 May
Soweto Full Day Tour
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h8h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
£52.59 x 1 Adult£52.59

Total
Price is £52.59
Until Thu, 2 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedSoweto-Born Guide
  • What's includedWhat's included All transport
  • What's includedWhat's included Lunch
  • What's includedWhat's included Entrance fees into the Apartheid Museum (with full day option)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: People with mobility impairments
  • All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
  • The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds
  • You must keep social distance while in vehicles
  • You are required to bring and wear a mask
  • You will receive a mandatory temperature check
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Starting in Kliptown, one of Soweto´s oldest districts, see the Football City Stadium also known as The Calabash. This stadium is located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, and was one of the many venues constructed for the World Cup in 2010. It has a capacity of just under 95,000 people, and was the location for the final of the tournament. Today, it hosts many concerts by major international artists, as well as many other sporting events.

Next, visit the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, situated in Orlando West. This site commemorates the role of the country’s students in the struggle against apartheid and in particular the role played by the school children who took part in the Soweto Uprising of 1976.

Explore Vilakazi Street, in the heart of Soweto. The street is is where Nelson Mandela spent the first couple of nights of freedom upon his release after 27 years of imprisonment. You will walk by this residence and pass by the home of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. As such, Vilakazi Street is the only street in the world that can boast having had two Nobel Laureates as residents.

After this, enjoy a traditional kota lunch, followed by a visit to the Apartheid Museum (if full day option selected), illustrating the history of South Africa´s struggle for change and freedom in the 20th century.

Location

Activity location

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    • Johannesburg
    • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Curiocity Backpackers
    • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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    • Curiocity Backpackers
    • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa