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HISTORIC CITY WALKING TOUR
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Cape Town city at night. The city has a thriving nightlife which includes a wide variety of restaurants, pubs and nightclubs.
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Experience the history of Cape Town - the 'Mother City' - via a leisurely walk past all the major historic landmarks of the city, dating back to the 17th century.
Your tour starts on the Foreshore, where the Dutch Commander - Jan van Riebeeck - landed in 1652.
From there, our tour takes you across the Grand Parade to the Castle of Good Hope, which remains the oldest standing building in South Africa ... and on to a museum that records the horrors of apartheid, the oldest pub, the presidential residence at De Tuynhuys and the Old Slave Lodge.
Passing through the oak trees of Government Avenue, your tour proceeds to the Company Gardens, which the Dutch settlers established to provide fresh food and water to passing ships - the primary reason for the settlement.
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| The Bokaap Museum. The Bokaap community is rich in history, going back to the earliest days of the Cape. |
And then to the hub of the city's night-life in Long Street, the Bokaap where brightly painted houses continue to celebrate the abolition of slavery in 1806 and finishing on the cobblestones of Greenmarket Square.
