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

By VoiceMap Cape Town
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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!
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Ages 6-99
Duration: 35–60 minutes
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Mobile ticket
Audio guide: English, French
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Written guide
Print or digital reading material such as a guide, map, brochure, etc.
: English, French
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  • Lifetime access to the 'Bo-Kaap: The Village in the City' tour
  • VoiceMap Application
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
What's not included
  • Smartphone
  • Transportation
  • Food/drinks
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route


Start:
  • Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum, 71 Wale St, Schotsche Kloof, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
    Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

    • Not wheelchair accessible
    • Service animals allowed
    • Near public transportation
    If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 110804P7

    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
    • Most travellers can participate
    • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

    • All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalties.

    If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 110804P7

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    About the operator
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    • bart_omiejw460
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Accesible trip!
      Amazing views, fully wheelchair accessible, breathtaking landscape, restaurant close by, completely for free....
      Written 22 November 2024
    • lslyChicago
      0 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Gardens with spectacular views
      Beautiful gardens. Wish we had more time to explore but we had another appointment scheduled. I would spend 2.5-4 hours exploring. We had less than 2 hours and it was not enough. The grounds are on the side of the mountain so some uphill walking but at a slow and steady pace very doable for anyone. A must see while visiting Cape Town area.
      Written 23 October 2024
    • pamferg
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      1.0 of 5 bubbles
      Rip off service
      Paid for the audio and they don’t offer this service anymore! Terrible- they had to ask a manager what it was! So I wasted my money and time trying to get it straightened out!
      Written 3 October 2023
    • Dee D
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      A wonderful and magical place within the City!
      Felt good to be back in the Cape. Would not miss a chance to visit this tranquil and calming place. Highly recommended !!!
      Written 2 October 2023
    • Mattmiami
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Don’t miss these gardens!
      An absolute MUST if you are in Cape Town. The seemingly endless trails of spectacular plants, bushes, trees and flowers are striking. We really enjoyed visiting these superb gardens.
      Written 6 September 2023
    • andrewolivermorley
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Magnificent
      We had visited the gardens over 15 years ago in November so a revisit was always our intention. We were blown away by the sheer scale of this area with it’s amazing vistas of the mountains and awesome views over to the city. It was a shame that both the bird of paradise and the protea had finished flowering and the agapanthus was going over but this made us appreciate the green ! The sky walk is a fantastic addition and the food at the restaurant was delicious.
      Written 18 January 2023
    • ChatelaineLondon
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      1.0 of 5 bubbles
      Misleading
      This is just for an audio tour NOT entrance to the gardens which we had to pay for when we arrived. The audio tour, we were informed by the cashier, NO longer exists when they tried to scan the bar code on the ticket so this is a misleading product not worth purchasing!!
      Written 7 February 2020
    • pbleeze66
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      Stunning Great day out
      All my friends that have been to Cape Town said we had to go and they were so right. What a great place, you would never think you was in a city when you walked around such a lovely place. We spent 6 hours there just looking at the plants and birds and just chilling out. You really have to put this on your list of what to do in Cape Town
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    Alicia Chamaille
    Cape Town, South Africa2 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Jun 2019
    I did this tour in French with my boyfriend in June. We both found the tour incredibly interesting and loved hearing Shereen's stories. The added sound effects created a surreal experience. I've done similar tours of the Bo Kaap but they lacked the personal aspect that makes this tour so great.
    Written 10 September 2019
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