A Heritage Walking Tour Through Adderley Street and the Old CBD

Perhaps the most intriguing and underappreciated part of Kaapstad is its original high street on Adderley!

Thus we'll set off from here at the start of our Spring circuit to definitively prove the Mother City an untapped lode of tall tales, tidbits, easter-eggs, hotspots, seen-sights and magic messes. If you stick around for the rest of our schedule you'll get to see the pick of the bunch in nearly every historic neighbourhood in the peninsula over the next few months.

We'll go about it this Sunday from 14h00 to 16h00 by tracing the boundaries of the bucolic Dutch OneStop Garage it once was, wandering down from the edge of the Company's Garden to the imaginary line of the beach on Strand Street, turning tail to surmount the klippie steps of the Koopmans-de-Wet Huis then joining 400 years' worth of souvenir sales in Greenmarket Square before lurching on through tough thickets of prescience and nostalgia all the way up St George's Mall.

As a taster, would you believe me if I told you the entire global diamond industry used to be run from one room overlooking The Crypt? That you can still see the first spire of the first church in South Africa from the Taj, but only if you stand at the right angle? That there is an exact spot you can stand in the CBD that is the dead-centre of the mother City?

Cape Town has a claim to being the first true melting-pot of the modern world (it's even one year older than New York!), and we're so excited to get the chance to cast it in an utterly new light for you.

RSVP NOW (though we will of course return to the same tour routes regularly over the next few seasons).

See you SOON x

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P.S. If you've read this far I'm guessing you'll want even more of the specs, so here goes:

- We'll be starting at the La Botessa Hotel & Cafe in Church Square then finishing by the Taj Hotel just over two hours later, so happily park on Queen Victoria Street or (lord forbid) take the MyCiTi bus the whole day.

- We've just put up our ticket prices for the first time in two-and-a-half years, from R120pp to R150pp. Obviously this is just to keep with inflation and to allow the tours to remain a sustainable enterprise for the foreseeable future, but this is still about R50 less per person than our nearest competition. In other words, we are deliberately undercharging the tours so as to keep them affordable for locals and visitors alike and to encourage guests to come back weekend after weekend.

Book via Quicket, WhatsApp us on 076 033 8164 or Message us via the buttons on our home page to secure your place.

- We have also just introduced a broad scheme of discounts you can apply for on each tour, so please do consult the list below before contacting us!

- And we've decided to partner with a different local NGO or charity for each and every one of our tour routes so that R10 of every ticket purchased goes directly to a good, sustainable, local cause. For the Adderley tour, we've chosen to fund-raise for The Bookery, and you can inspect their brilliance here:

https://thebookery.org.za

- This is a consistently well-reviewed heritage-focused walking tour; which is to say that all you'll need to enjoy yourself is curiosity about Cape Town's past (and History in general) and enough stamina to walk just less than 3km in one afternoon (with stops and snacks).

- If you're rejoining us, please please please please please please consider dropping us a short (or extensive) review on our Facebook Reviews or Google Reviews section as it will help spread our gospel of curiosity and playful appreciation across the internet and across the spectrum of all potential visitors to the Cape. It helps us more than you can believe!

- You can also add an optional R10 donation on your ticket which will go directly to the NGO Streetscapes as part of our mission to spread love, enthusiasm, mutual support and respect for all of Cape Town's people and histories. Just think how many people we could help and the difference we could make with a few hundred tours!

- Feel absolutely free to spread the word, invite friends who've been looking for this kind of experience and badger us with every imaginable heritage query. We live for it!

Can't wait to meet ya, really! ??

THE CTHT DISCOUNT LIST:

1. Guests over 65 and under 18 can claim a 33% discount on each ticket, at R100pp pre-booked.

2. If you buy tickets for both the Saturday and Sunday tours on one weekend, you can claim R50 off each ticket, at R200pp pre-booked.

3. If you buy a Cape Town Heritage Tours Tote-Bag or any of our books on sale at our Half-Booked Online Shop, you can claim a free tour voucher for each piece of merchandise.

4. You can buy individual advance vouchers for our public tours at R150 each and then message in the week before a scheduled tour. But you can also buy value-packs of five for the price of 4 (R600), 10 for the price of 7 (R1050) or all 18 for the price of 10 (R1500).

5. If you bring 2 or more friends on a weekend tour you can claim R30 back on each of your tickets, at R120pp pre-booked.

6. If you share the posts promoting individual tours you can claim R30 back as well, at R120pp.

7. Likewise if you recommend the tours to a friend who then attends a weekend tour, you can claim 50% off your next ticket, at R75pp pre-booked.

See ya next weekend!