Explore Cape Town: a city walk

Explore Cape Town: a city walk

You have decided to visit a mother city of South Africa: Cape Town. A good decision! Cape Town has a lot of different historic attractions and sights to offer. A proud multicultural city with fascinating and heart-breaking stories to tell. With its beautiful view’s and landscapes to take in. This tour will show you some Cape Town’s finest sights. Learn the different stories about this remarkable city while strolling around. The tour starts at the Castle of Good Hope but you are also welcome to join the Explore Cape Town: a city walk from any other location as well.Licenses: Photo 1: by Danie van der Merwe licensed under CC BY 2.0 Photo 2: by SkyPixels licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 _______Podcast based on audio guide Explore Cape Town: a city walk Author: Tours around the world In the podcast format you may enjoy stories remotely; if you go out and experience the audio tour on location it is adviced to use the izi.TRAVEL application that really guides you and plays stories automaticly based on your position

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December 27, 2020 1 min
You’re now standing in front of the departure point ‘Nelson Mandela Gateway’ for Robben Island when it was a prison. For nearly 400 years the island served as a place of banishment. Indigenous African leaders, Muslim leaders from the East Indies, Dutch and British settler soldiers and civilians, women, and anti-apartheid activists, including South Africa’s first democratic President, Nelson Mandela were all imprisoned on Robben Isl...
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This Waterfront been named as Cape Town’s biggest tourist attraction. The Waterfront evokes images of the early activities at the harbour but most of its charm lies in the commercial set of huge entertainment venue with pubs, restaurants, specialty shops, craft markets, theatres and movies. The invitation has been sent to you to discover the experience live, work, shop and play at the V&A Waterfront.
When you walk along the Waterfro...
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December 27, 2020 53 secs
A quick stop here at the sub-district De Waterkant. You’re now walking in the most fashionable area of Cape Town.                                                                                                                                                  
De Waterkant experienced a rebirth starting only a decade or so ago. Renovation to the former slave houses began, cafés and coffee houses opened, interior designers opened stud...
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December 27, 2020 1 min
The first thing you will notice when you’re walking into Bo-Kaap are the bright painted colours on all the houses.                                                                                    
The history of this suburb is fascinating to hear. Many residents are descendants of enslaves from Malaysia, Indonesia and various African countries, which were imported during the 16th and 17th century by the Dutch. They were called “Ca...
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December 27, 2020 47 secs
You will now arrive at Greenmarket Square. This square has quite a reputation; it has been a slave market, a fruit and vegetable market and a humbling parking lot.
Now Greenmarket Square is the place were you can find a range goods to buy. The flea market can offer you clothing, glassware, hand-painted fabrics, footwear, music, sunglasses and curios form all over Cape Town and Africa.
But Greenmarket Square is also not just a flea ma...
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December 27, 2020 1 min
The Company Garden is the green heart of the city. Spend some time exploring because there is a lot to discover. The garden contains a rose garden, Japanese garden, fishpond, aviary and tea garden. But also contains a lot of hidden gems that you don’t want to miss.
The establishment of the garden go way back in time, 1650 to be exact, when the Dutch decided they needed a refreshment post for the seafarers that travelled along the Ca...
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December 27, 2020 1 min
It was 1965, when the apartheid government swooped on District six in Cape Town. Until that time this area was a vibrant, multicultural area. 
When the apartheid government decided that District Six had to become a “white area” all the 60,000 non-white inhabitants had to move from the area.
One of the most distinctive areas of Cape Town was destroyed. The district was razed to the ground, in order to build houses and buildings for wh...
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December 27, 2020 1 min
You’re now standing in front of the Castle of Good Hope. If you take a look at the main entrance it bears many reminders of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at the Cape. The impressive fort is considered the best-preserved example of a VOC fort. When in 1664 the Netherlands feared a British attack on the Cape, a five-pointed stone castle was built. The castle was planned from a central point with five bastions, named after the ma...
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