Wanderer’s Cape Town Township Tour takes visitors on a guided visit to the lesser known but no- less exciting parts of Cape Town.
The Cape Flats, the low-lying, sandy region connecting the Cape Peninsula with the African continent, this is where the majority of Cape Town’s nearly 4 million population live. Many of them in poor, underdeveloped or informal settlements, known as townships. Though living conditions in the townships are often difficult, they are home to vibrant communities with rich cultures and thriving businesses.
This eye-opening experience will introduce you to the unique rhythm of township life, which is likely to be very different from anything you have ever experienced before. When we enter the township you are joined by a local resident guide from the area to ensure your tour is both an authentic and educational experience. You get to speak with the locals, enjoy their food, music, arts and crafts and even get to visit a hostel and spend some time at one of their homes.
Township Tour Highlights
Long March to Freedom

Township Orphanage

Robben Island

Langa

Traditional Beer Tasting

Arts and Crafts Centre

Township Tour Itinerary
Your Cape Town Township tour starts with a visit to the long march to freedom. This is a growing collection of currently 100 life size bronze statues starting with rebel leaders and freedom fighters from the 1700’s and ending with Nelson Mandela representing the democracy of South Africa. This is the largest collection of its kind in the world and you get to view it against the breath-taking backdrop of Table Mountain.
We then take a drive past the next highlight which is the township of Khaylelitsha, which is South Africa’s largest and fastest growing township. After our drive past Khayelitsha and a few other townships we spend a few hours exploring South Africa’s oldest township Langa.
In Langa you get the opportunity to visit the arts and crafts centre, try the local beer and mingle with the residents. If this isn’t enough we also visit a local hostel and really get to know one of the locals over a cup of tea at their home.
We then head back to the city for the final leg of our experience where we take a boat trip over to explore the famous Robben Island where Nelson Mandela and many other political prisoners we housed.
Why do a Township Tour?
The Township tour has got to be our most highly recommended of the lot for so many reasons. The only unfortunate part is that over the years we have found some tourists with huge reservations regarding the township tour due to a very misguided moral standing regarding what the tour is about. I must assure you that the townships people and the City of Cape Town very much support and encourage this tour as it brings a lot of awareness and much needed cash flow into these lower income areas.
BOOK EVERYTHING with Wanderer if you are visiting Cape Town. My friends and I were just in town for a wedding and we needed a car to take us about… read more 2 hours outside of Cape Town. I came across Wonderer and was able to book everything through WhatsApp. We had a 6 seated Mercedes van with the best driver in the world, Andre (who put up with us having had 7 bottles of wine!). He was perfectly on time and super friendly. We then ended up booking a private day tour with Che who took us in a convertible all day to the must-see places in and around Cape Town including Cheetah Outreach, Lions, multiple wine tastings and even gave us some nice drinks in the car. He’s a super down-to-earth guy who gave us a million dollar experience for a price we could really afford. It was our day to tell him what we wanted and he made it work. Felt like we were friends with him for years. Wanderer is the must-book in Cape Town. Super safe, super reliable and all around the best tour I’ve been on (through 63 countries)!!







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All I knew was that I wanted to treat my boyfriend to visit the wine farms for his first visit to… read more SA and Che took care of the rest! We were fetched on time in a Mustang GT convertible and whizzed to 4 different wine farms before heading off to Hout Bay for an exhilarating speed boat trip out to the seals. Our day ended with cocktails on Camps Bay beach and dinner at Pananga which Che arranged for us at the last minute so that we’d have the best view of the sunset whilst having dinner.
He disappeared when we arrived somewhere and would pop up as we needed something and even managed to get some beautiful photos of us when we didn’t even realise. Absolutely brilliant day!







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He then assigned Melvin to be with us for the whole period, and boy what a great professional person he was.. I mean, we were with 2 kids (4 & 8 years old) and one needs to be patient with us :).. Che and Melvin then turned out to be our trustable friends in Cape Town.. In one occasion, we also got a chance to say hi to Che’s mom, and that’s nice, we were feeling connected with them.
On one of the days, we also experienced an issue with the main car. And Che quickly replaced it, hence there was no interruption to our vacation. All vacation objectives were met, and even further we were introduced to new places we were not aware before!
In summary, i would highly recommend their services. Yes, they are relatively new compared to other companies. But if you look at the whole package (trust, local knowledge, professionalism, and definitely reasonable pricing!), i believe it’s no brainer to use their services when you visited Cape Town.







December 28, 2019