Robben Island untold Walking Tour
Good day Guru Walkers, Welcome and thank you for reaching out to us. 😃 Our guests have reviewed us to be the top rated GuruWalk tour operator in Cape Town and South Africa 🇿🇦. They also highly recommend us as well. In fact, we are the first GuruWalk operator in Southern Africa to reach over 100, 200, 300 and then 400 reviews with mostly 5 🌟 ratings. We are a wife and husband team which offers the most scheduled tours per week. Guide Bridget is a professional registered Regional and Provincial Cultural Tourist Guide (WC12124). Guide Michael is a professional registered Regional and Provincial Cultural Tourist Guide (WC12125), as well as a registered National Overnight Off Trail Mountain Adventure and Trekking Tourist Guide. We also enjoy membership with the Cape Tourist Guide's Association. Michael's uncle (who is still alive today) was the neighbour of Nelson Mandela when he spent nearly 7 years in the jail cell right next door to him, between 1972 and 1979, as a political prisoner on Robben Island. For more about this, you may want to book our "Robben Island Untold" walking tour. For further information regarding his topic w also have the "Oppression and Apartheid to Liberation and Corruption" walking tour.
Pickup
Please meet your guide outside the Cape Big Wheel. The guide will be wearing an official tourist guide badge.
Description
All our tours are conducted in English.
We have 7 walking tours, each one of them focusing on a different topic and subject. Please make sure that the tour you intend to book is one that suits your interest.
If you are making a single booking for 1 person, there is a chance that your booking will be canceled should the minimum number of 2 persons not be reached.
We will be meeting outside the Big Ferris Wheel.
The guide will be wearing an official tourist guide badge.
NB
- We will be walking on some uneven surfaces and there are some steps to climb as well, so please wear comfortable shoes.
- Make sure that each guest in your party has at least 500ml of water.
- For sunny days, a hat is recommended.
- For cloudy days, an umbrella or rainwear is recommended.
- Please be at the meeting point at least 10 minutes before the starting time.
- All our tours are based on proper research and facts, and the information shared is not meant to be disrespectful to anyone's gender, country, religion, ethnicity, culture, ancestors, place of origin, political persuasion, traditions or practices.
- For groups less than 6 people, the tour may progress a little faster due to fewer people needing coffee, toilet, ATM, asking questions and taking photos.
- According to the GuruWalk platform, the recommended tip amount is from 10,00 Euros per person.
- We reserve the right to cancel a booking if guests show signs or behavior of being intoxicated.
- By signing up for this tour you hereby accept the GuruWalk Terms and Conditions.
- Our WhatsApp number is +27 825757123
Robben Island untold
"Secret places . . . we'll take you there"
- This is a walking tour in and around the V+A Waterfront, and NOT a tour to the island itself.
- The tour is based on history and the personal experiences of members of Michael's family, including his uncle who was jailed for almost 7 years (between 1972 and 1979) in the cell right next door to that of Nelson Mandela.
- Of course, this tour also covers the system of apartheid that was devised by the racist white regime of the time, and how it led to people being detained as political prisoners on Robben Island.
NB
The information shared may be of a sensitive nature to some, and also includes facts that are not available on the internet.
- The tour is ideal for those who:
- do not have the 3 to 4 hours required to do the excursion to the island
- have done the tour to the island but would like added information which is not offered during the tour
- are unable to do the tour to the island due to health issues, pregnancy or sea sickness
- are not able to secure a booking for a tour to the island
- are not able to do the tour to the island due to ferry maintenance or technical issues
- are not able to do the tour to the island when the service is interrupted due to rough seas, fog or strong wind
Meet your guide outside the Cape Big Wheel. The guide will be wearing an official tourist guide badge.
Itinerary:
- Places of interest
- Khoisan history (indigenous people of the Cape)
- Buildings
- Ruins
- Artefacts
- Plants and flowers
- The early Portuguese arrivals
- The Dutch East India Company
- The British influences
- Penguins
- Shipwrecks
- People
- Cultural heritage
- Religious prisoners
- Leper colony
- Political prisoners
- Escaped prisoners
- Churches
- Mosques
- National monuments
- Sites of significance
All our tours are based on proper research and facts, and the information shared is not meant to be disrespectful to anyone's gender, country, religion, ethnicity, culture, ancestors, place of origin, political persuasion, traditions or practices.
Your guide will take you back in time and talk about how Robben Island was named, to how the island has played and important part of the history and the development of the Cape of Good Hope.
The tour finishes back in the heart of the V+A Waterfront where one can enjoy refreshments at a restaurant in the area.
Service ends
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