Highlights
- Join a local township guide on a bike tour
- Dance with the Sangoma's (traditional healers)
- Taste traditional African food in the home of a local or at a restaurant
- Experience the authentic urban township culture in South Africa
- Support the Songezo cycling academy and Masicorp non-profit organisation
Description
The Bicycle Township Tour departs from Masicorp Chasmay Road Campus, where we share a workshop with the SongezoYouth Cycling academy where you might see budding cyclists from the community in training. Songezo Jim is South Africa's first Black South African cyclist who is now inspiring other youth to take up the sport.
As local guide will take you around the township, visiting interesting places and explaining some local Xhosa customs. We visit local library, entrepreneurs and small businesses. During school time ( ie closed on week-ends & school holidays) you will visit a local crèche where the teachers work under very difficult circumstances. Part of the tour proceeds go towards the betterment of their facilities. On Sundays we could include a visit to a local gospel church
For lunch, you will either visit an African restaurant or a local lady's home who regularly hosts the tourist groups and makes an authentic African tea or lunch.
Includes
Local Xhosa guide
Old fashioned Dutch bicycle
African lunch
Sangoma visit
Donations to Masicorp Non profit organisation that supports education in the community
Important Information
- 10% of all tour proceeds go directly to Masicorp - a non-profit organization
- Please don't give any sweets or treats to the children as the local partner prefers to work with registered charities
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund