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The Village in the City: A Self-Guided Audio Tour of Bo-Kaap

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Highlights

Explore the Bo-Kaap with one of its renowned residents Shereen Habib. Starting at the Bo-Kaap Museum, wind your way past the neighborhood’s major sites and secret corners on old cobbled streets. You’ll visit the oldest mosque in South Africa and learn the real significance behind the Tana Baru Cemetery. Shereen’s intimate knowledge and unique humour reveals a living history of the Bo-Kaap that cannot be found anywhere else. The tour is ready whenever you are. It plays audio automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.


Bo-kaaps brightly painted houses provide excellent photography throughout, and there’s also a great lunch eatery where you can sample ridiculously tasty Cape Malay cuisine. Start the tour in the app, put your phone in your pocket, and let Shereen direct you through the streets. The total walking distance is 1km and takes about a half hour without stopping, but you can pause anytime!

Itinerary

  • Bo-kaap

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    Explore Bo-Kaap with an audio tour by Shereen Habib, an author and tour guide who has lived in this neighbourhood for most of her life.
  • Iziko Bo Kaap Museum(Pass by)

    Admission Ticket Free
    The tour starts at the entrance to this museum, and visitors can visit it either before of afterwards.
  • Auwal Mosque(Pass by)

    Admission Ticket Free
    The oldest mosque in South Africa. It still houses a handwritten copy of the Holy Quran by the mosque's first Imam which was written from memory while he was in jail in the late 1700's.
  • Kramat of Tuan Guru

    15 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    The Tana Baru Cemetery is the resting place of South Africa’s earliest Muslim settlers.

What's included

INCLUDED

VoiceMap Application
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
Lifetime access to the 'Bo-Kaap: The Village in the City' tour

NOT INCLUDED

Smartphone
Transportation
Food/drinks
Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted
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Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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