2–Day Johannesburg Cultural Experience

Pretoria Half–Day Sightseeing Tour

Be sure to bring your camera as this city, dubbed the Jacaranda City, blossoms with beautiful Jacaranda trees. See the many historical sights of Pretoria, South Africa\'s administrative capital, including the President\'s Office, the Church Square, Kruger House, Melrose House and the Voortrekker Monument as well as the Union Buildings.

The administrative capital of South Africa, Pretoria is also known as the Jacaranda City, as it blossoms with beautiful jacarandas sweeping over the roads and providing shade from the burning African sun.

See the historical sights of this city including the Sir Hubert Baker designed Union Buildings; see the President\'s office, Church Square, Paul Kruger and Melrose Houses and Voortrekker Monument. This tour is a great way for you to familiarize yourself with the picturesque city of Pretoria.

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AUD $81.24
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Rise to Freedom Tour: Soweto and Apartheid Museum

Combine a Three Hour Sightseeing Tour of Soweto with an Afternoon Tour to the Apartheid Museum to get a real insight into South Africa\'s turbulent past. You will visit important monuments of South Africa\'s history, such as Freedom Square and Desmond Tutu\'s home, as you learn the history and segregation which once tore the country apart.

Soweto Tour

You will be picked up at your hotel and driven through to Soweto (South Western Township). This sprawling metropolis of more than 3.5 million people on the outskirts of Johannesburg, is synonymous with South Africa\'s turbulent past and its hopes for the future. Soweto is a multi-cultural composite of South Africa today.

Peek into the past - hostels, Freedom Square, the struggle for liberty. Tread the paths to greatness by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. Visit the Mandela Museum. Stand on the only road in the world, which carries the honor of two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. See Desmond Tutu\'s home.

Your Soweto Tour includes a full view of Soweto from the vicinity of Baragwanath Hospital, visits to African merchants of traditional medicines, a typical four-roomed dwelling, an informal settlement, a creche, an old-age home, affluent suburbs and a typical Shebeen (tavern). See Winnie Mandela\'s house and the Hector Peterson Memorial.

Apartheid Museum
Embark on a discovery of the racial segregation experienced by millions of South Africans a mere decade ago. On entering the building you are racially classified and you see this segregation in all forms of life. There are excellent displays on the Soweto up-rising, ANC in exile, petty apartheid, solitary confinement, anti-apartheid movements abroad and sporting boycotts.

The displays culminate in the birth of a new democratic country, the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President and witness one of the most progressive constitutions in the world.

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AUD $91.93
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Lesedi Cultural Village Day Trip from Johannesburg

Lesedi is a multicultural village set amongst the pristine bushveld and rocky hills less than an hour\'s drive north of Johannesburg. Live the experience of the vibrant and colorful traditions of the Basotho, Ndebele, Pedi, Xhosa and Zulu peoples on a four hour afternoon tour.

See traditional Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho, Pedi and Xhosa villages. See the Lesedi tribal dancers and enjoy a pan African feast with delicacies from north, east and southern Africa.

Situated at Lesedi are five traditional homesteads: the Zulus with their fighting sticks and cozy beehive huts; the Xhosa with their perfectly thatched rondawels and distinctive white blankets; the rhythmic drums and whistles of the Pedi tribe; the conical straw hats and thick, colored blankets of the Basotho; and the colorful homes of the Ndebele.

Families live their traditional peaceful lives and inhabit each homestead at Lesedi. Lesedi is a Sotho word that means, "Light". It was made famous by the great leader and founder of the Southern Sotho Nation, Moshoeshoe. During the terrible Mfecane wars, refugees from many nations joined him and were saved by him.

Lesedi Cultural Village awaits those willing to participate in an adventure that reveals the mystical cultures and traditions of the people of Africa, steeped in tribal folklore and ancestral traditions. Their culture is the light of the South African nation: "Whoever walks here amongst our cultures at Lesedi can also see the light".

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AUD $163.80
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