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Apartheid Museum - 30 min (driving )
Tour with us through Houghton, a stunning suburb past Mandela’s house to the Munro Drive, here we have the scenic view of the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg. Experience the world’s largest man made subtropical forest.
A Drive through part of town for a scenic overview of Johannesburg.
2 hours (Apartheid Museum)
Explore the museum on a self guided tour at your leisure until it’s time to depart. There are 22 individual exhibition areas that showcase different time periods under brutal apartheid rule. The exhibits are well done and they include provocative film footage, photographs, text panels and artefacts illustrating the events and human stories that showcase a turbulent period in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Mandela House - 40 min (driving to Soweto)
Drive through Diepkloof and learn about general life of the people living in a township.
A drive past Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
A drive past Orlando Towers and get a chance to explore a shanty town.
20 min (Mandela House)
A site guide will welcome you with a
short introduction and take you on a guided of tour of this Museum, a priceless house once a home to the icon Nelson Mandela. You will get a chance to take as many pictures as you can from the inside and the of the house.
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Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial - 20 min (walk on Vilakazi Street)
Get to explore Vilakazi Street where two Noble Peace Price winners Desmond Tutu and Mandela once lived.
Enjoy a welcoming traditional dance on the street.
An Optional lunch can enjoyed at Sakhumzi or 1947 restaurant within the 5 hours of this tour
40 min (Hector Peterson Museum)
A Museum chronicling the 1976 student uprising and named after it’s first victim a 12 year old boy Hector Peterson.
30 min (driving back to Hotel)
At the end of the tour you will be dropped back at your hotel or at the airport
- Diepkloof Park - A Drive through of an upmarket section of Soweto
- Baragwanath Medical Centre - Drive past Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital one of the largest Hospitals in the Southern hemisphere
- Orlando Towers - A drive past the 2 cooling of a former coal powered plant now a bungee jump entertainment center
- Entrance fees included
- Transportation in an air-conditioned tour vehicle
- Services of an English-speaking guide
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Personal Purchases
Soweto’s central involvement in the anti-Apartheid resistance is paramount. The Township is full of locations that narrate episodes of its sad yet victorious saga. Soweto should be included in your tour of the heritage of the struggle. Starting from its inception in 1904, to the approval of the Freedom Charter in 1955, and the Soweto Uprisings on June 16th, 1976, these are critical occurrences that moulded South Africa’s historical backdrop. You’ll gain insight into and appreciate the unique culture of the inhabitants within these Townships.
The Apartheid Museum has earned global recognition as the outstanding museum of the 20th Century. The Museum provides a detailed account of the ascent and descent of the segregation and oppression era in South Africa. It illuminates the stormy years of apartheid in South Africa, during which a large number of people were forced into subservience, discrimination and subjugation until liberation was finally achieved.
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