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FULL LENGTH TOUR DESCRIPTION
Cape Town is beautiful, and its history dramatic. This promises an eye opening, tactile and fascinating three hour walking tour of South Africa’s most historic square mile, providing you with an excellent geopolitical and historic overview of Cape Town. In this specially designed, unique experience there is no better pace at which to get Cape Town under your skin, than step by step, on foot, where you can throw your arms around the city and experience its many layers of texture.

At the quayside, you meet your guide and transfer by coach to the city centre where you disembark and start your walking tour. This tour is called the Footsteps to Freedom because your expert guide will walk you through the chronological events that have shaped the national and the geopolitical map. The tour begins with tales and facts about the San and Khoikhoi peoples, whose lives were forever and indelibly changed by the arrival of the Dutch East India Company, slavery, British Colonial rule, The Union of South Africa, the rise and fall of Apartheid and the birth of this “Rainbow Nation”.

Now having laid the foundations of understanding, the next step is to demonstrate one of the central tenets of the modern South Africa – the need for thriving “upliftment” of previously disadvantaged peoples. There is no more tangible example of this in the city than “Streetwires”. Employing over 75 formerly unemployed people, this company marks a clever conjoining of street art and social development in the dynamic genre of wire art. The project provides the skills, training, support and raw materials necessary to enable many formerly unemployed South Africans to channel their natural creative energies into this vibrant art form. While wire art is not a new genre, the Streetwires team brings together a group of people with skills in wire art, marketing, production development and industrial design. In so doing it successfully empowers needy South Africans by creating opportunities where none had existed. On your visit you will sit down with the artists for the opportunity to talk to them and learn their craft as they encourage you to try your hand at building your own wire art that you may keep. Just by visiting this project you will have contributed to their future and supported their cause.

Other city sights incorporated in your walk include St Georges Mall, Greenmarket Square, and the flower sellers at Trafalgar Square. A refreshment stop is made along the way as you also pass City Hall and Grande Parade, the Castle, District Six Museum, Adderley Street, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, St Georges Cathedral, Government Avenue with Parliament and Company Gardens. Upon your return to the starting point, board your coach and transfer back to the ship.
 
SHORT LENGTH TOUR DESCRIPTION
Cape Town is beautiful, and its history dramatic. This promises an eye opening, tactile and fascinating three hour walking tour of South Africa’s most historic square mile, providing you with an excellent geopolitical and historic overview of Cape Town. In this specially designed, unique experience there is no better pace at which to get Cape Town under your skin, than step by step, on foot, where you can throw your arms around the city and experience its many layers of texture.
 
TIMING BREAKDOWN
00:00 – 00:15 Depart quayside and drive to city centre for start of walking tour
00:15 – 03:15 Historical walk through the city of Cape Town with light refreshments en route
03:15 – 04:15 Visiting Street Wires
04:15 – 04:30 Return by coach to quayside

Approximate duration: 4½ hours
 
OPERATIONAL NOTES
- This tour is not suitable for passengers with walking difficulties or guests in wheelchairs
- Activity level is Extensive. Participants must be fit to walk around and be on their feet for more than three hours

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