Guided tours enable you to orientate yourself quickly and get to the highlights with a minimum of fuss. A growing number of smaller companies offer niche cultural tours; the most popular of these are townships tours , which can safely get you around the African and coloured areas that were created under apartheid. Apart from this, a number of other outfits can help you scratch beneath Cape Town's surface.

City centre and Peninsula sights
Cape Town Explorer Cape Town Tourism tel 021 426 4260; Topless Tours tel 021 556 0700, . Cape Town Tourism's official bus tour is a two-hour circular ride in an open-top double-decker bus that follows a fixed route around the main...
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Cultural and township tours
AfriCultural Tours tel 021 423 3321. A comprehensive look at Cape Town's "other side", not just the townships, but also a "Slave Route" tour, a visit to San rock art sites and visits to traditional music makers, dancers and...
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