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Cape Town's original shoreline: a self-guided audio tour
- 2–2.5 hours
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
- Private tour
Highlights
Over the centuries, natural and historical events and extensive development have obscured Cape Town's original shoreline. This has influenced the city’s history and reconfigured the shape of the land that meets the water. And yet, it is a line rich with history, and contains layers of stories that have long been suppressed, overlooked, or left to lie in dusty drawers and family folklore. This self-guided audio tour retraces the original shoreline, from the first making of the land to the present day – and beyond it, into the lessons changes to sea level hold for our future.
Inclusions
What's included
- VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
- Lifetime access to this tour in English
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
What's not
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
- Smartphone and headphones
- Transportation
- Food and drink
Itinerary
The tour begins at the Castle of Good Hope.
The tour passes around the Grand Parade
The tour passes Cape Town's City Hall.
The tour makes a quick detour inside the General Post Office.
The tour goes through Cape Town Station.
The tour passes the Foreshore Freeway Bridge from a short distance.
The tour takes you through the Silo District
The tour makes a brief stop outside Chavonne's Battery Museum.
The tour passes by the South African Maritime Museum.
The tour ends outside the V&A Waterfront near the Breakwater Boulevard parking.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- 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.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- VoiceMap Audio Tours
- Service animals allowed
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Cape Town
- Its from-price is 97% below the median of the 351 city tours we list in Cape Town.
- It is shorter than most of them.
About Cape Town
Cape Town spreads between Table Mountain and the sea, a striking city of beaches, vineyards, penguins and history near Africa's southwestern tip.
Table Mountain's flat summit looms over everything, reached by cableway or by hiking trails, with Lion's Head and Signal Hill flanking it. Below, the V&A Waterfront bustles around the working harbour, and boats leave from there for Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held for eighteen years. The colourful houses of Bo-Kaap climb the slopes above the city centre and the Company's Garden.
Top-ranked sights in Cape Town: Boulders Beach, Cape of Good Hope, Chapman’s Peak Drive.
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