Walk Soweto's Spirit: Iconic History Tour & Authentic Local Lunch

Probably the best walking tour I have ever done. Our guide, Maweza, was the most knowledgeable guy and could tell us everything about the town he grew up in. Also felt completely safe the whole time, if that is something you are concerned about: don't be! So grateful we got to experience this while in Johannesburg. Honestly an experience I would recommend to everyone.

Very informative and professional tour guide. I really appreciate the share history and how passionate the guide tour is. You have to do this tour to get a sense on how this area developed.

This tour was great! We had a very nice guide and he showed us all about Soweto. It helped to take our fear about Townships away and replaced it with appreciation and respect for the locals. If you want to see different sides of South Africa, you should do this tour!

We really enjoyed the walking tour, and our tour guide Maweza was amazing! He is very knowledgeable, very friendly, and great personality. He shared so much history and information with us. He was great! Thank you for the service.

What a fantastic afternoon! So fun to meet local people and even party with them. They could even organize vegan lunch for us. Definitely recommend!

Taking this tour is a visual picture of the world you hear and it will grow on you. Just feel it. Maweza, our guide, is a wonderful person. His guide makes you more deeply interested in the city. When you come to Johannesburg you should taking this tour.

This is a can't miss experience. Maweza, the guide for most of the tours, is an experienced, articulate, outgoing, and attentive Soweto native. He has educated himself to provide information beyond what even top level tour guides offer. And his personal and family experiences in the township add an authentic, rich dimension to the tour. As a local, he knows everyone and greets them using the street language spoken mainly by the young Soweto men. Ypu walk through the Beverly Hills areas of Soweto as well as some of the poorest areas with tin shacks served by porta-potties across the road. Maweza is well-read and has a sophisticated understanding of S African history, politics, culture, social programs, and current conditions, and books by S African notables. His knowledge of other countries is also extensive, enabling interesting comparisons and conversation. The tour of Mandela's house is not included but there is time to take it, and is suggested for additional info about Nelson and Winnie Mandela. It was so much fun to end the tour with a delicious Kota burger (included) at a local outdoor eatery where you can relax and mine Maweza's extensive knowledge to learn even more about this fascinating country and its struggles to recover from its horrific past.

Our tour guide did a wonderful job showing us the history and viewing Soweto. He had a young guide shadowing him and she was great too. We enjoyed our tour but wished there was a little time to stop at vendors. I learned so much that I would not have gotten on my own. There came a time in the tour when we could go to the shanty town and he offered us to not go. My husband and I decided to go (which was our choice) but I felt awkward because it felt like a “hood safari”. No fault of the guide but something didn’t feel right when a member of the tour was taking pictures of little kids in tough conditions like animals in Kruger. It felt exploitative so maybe we shouldn’t have attended that part of the tour. If you do go to this part, make sure you have cash ahead of time to donate to them. We didn’t have much to give bc we needed an ATM.

The guide was native from Soweto. He was informative about history of Soweto and its historical importance in South Africa in the struggle of the past and present.

Our guide Moweza did a phenomenal job of our walking tour with lunch in Soweto. He was extremely knowledgeable and paid closer attention to important dates in history. I highly recommend