Soweto Guided Bicycle Cultural Experience

Explore a Soweto Guided cultural experience on a bicycle and an optional guided walking tour in a Shantytown. This tour offers a wide variety of entertainment for both young and old.
Cycle on Vilakazi Street, once home to two Noble Prize winners the late Nelson Mandela and late Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Experience welcoming traditional dances on this street. Visit the Hector Peterson Museum and Mandela House.
Experience the rich cultural heritage of South Africa's townships on this tour. Meet friendly locals, learn about the vibrant history, and immerse yourself in the colorful atmosphere of these fascinating communities. Lunch at the Boma & Outdoor Restaurant at the Backpacker’s Lodge is a unique cultural experience. Stews, known as “potjie” in Afrikaans, and curries are prepared on a fire and served with traditional steamed bread. An alternative to bread is “pap” or maize porridge buffet served with various stews, a traditional barbeque, referred to as a “braai”, and side salads

What's included:

• Use of Tuk tuk
• English speaking guide

Not included:

• Personal Purchases
• Soft drinks

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours

Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Pick up from your hotel, welcome, general introduction and itinerary briefing

30 minutes

Lebo's Soweto Backpackers

10823 Pooe St, Orlando West, Johannesburg, 1804, South Africa

Our guide will drive straight to Soweto, depending on the starting time of tour, you may have lunch before or after the tour. Our guide will help you report to Backpacker’s reception, your bicycles or tuk tuks will get prepared for you.
The program Guides will welcome and brief about the tour.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial

8287 Khumalo St, , Soweto

A self guided tour this Museum chronicling the 1976 Soweto student uprising and named after one of its victims a thirteen year old boy. The museum today is a symbol of resistance against the brutality of the apartheid regime

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Vilakazi Street

Vilakazi Street, Soweto, 1804

The thriving heart of Soweto is one of the most well-known streets in South Africa, Vilakazi Street.
While Vilakazi Street may be the only street in the world that can claim to have had two Nobel Laureates as residents - the late Nelson Mandela and late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The true electricity of this street comes from those who now call it home, each with their own beautiful stories.
Enjoy welcoming Zulu and Tswana traditional dances on Vilakazi Street and get a chance to shop on African hand made artefacts sold on the streets.

20 minutes

Mandela House

8115 Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, 1804

Explore in a guided tour the exhibits and artefacts in a previous house of the nation's revered former president Nelson Mandela. This house been entrenched as one of South Africa's most significant heritage sites, it tells the tales and stories in sound, film, interpretive panels and guided tours.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Orlando Towers

, , Soweto

The two cooling towers are a prominent landmark in Soweto. Now used as an entertainment center housing a famous Bungee jump and a barbecue restaurant. Get to taste the famous locally brewed Soweto Gold beer.
Visit a Shantytown on a guided tour. The site guides will take on a 10 minute walking tour explaining to you about general life of people living in Shantys

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Lebo's Soweto Backpackers

10823 Pooe St, Orlando West, Johannesburg, 1804, South Africa

The bicycle or Tuk Tuk tour will end back to where you started. You will meet our guide who will drive you back to your hotel in Johannesburg

20 minutes

Johannesburg

Johannesburg

After this wonderful and fascinating experience you will be dropped at your hotel in Johannesburg

30 minutes