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

This was the best tour for me. The tour guide is well versed in the history of South Africa and was able to articulate that history so well. I have ranked this Soweto walk as the highest on the list of the activities I did during my visit to Johannesburg.

If you are wondering whether to visit Soweto but are worried about awkwardness or seeming exploitative, stop wondering and book this tour! Maweza was an excellent, welcoming and highly knowledgeable guide who gave us a full picture of the city of Soweto, as an important historical site and a vibrant present-day community. We visited the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Mandela House, of course. But we also walked through the variety of neighborhoods and saw the diversity of income levels, schools, places of worship, shops and housing. The Kota lunch was delicious and definitely something we only could have had in Soweto. Walking was a great way to visit the community rather than getting off and on bus. Through it all, Maweza kept us informed and put what we saw into historic and current context. We were lucky that it was just the two of us on the walking tour that day, though this is a tour that would also work well with their typical small group. Absolutely book this tour!

Maweza was our guide and is very knowledgeable. He made us realize Soweto is not really like what people depict it to be in the bad aspect, we interacted with the people and kids and even got them sweets and shared and the kids loved it, you should give it a try

Great experience through the traditional points, additionally they take you to the unknown points, as you wish, granting a deep and real experience in the largest township of Africa. Also an excellent guidance

Our guide was very knowledgeable about Soweto as he grew up there. He showed us some of the local places that perhaps some of the more commercial tours may not have. We found the tour very interesting and insightful and we covered quite a lot of ground. It is a walking tour so it’s all done on foot; make sure you wear comfortable footwear. Lunch was ok; it was a Soweto style chip butty! It would have been nice to be able to have a choice of what to eat for lunch as some of the things I saw other people eating looked quite nice too! Overall, it was a great tour and I would recommend it.

Mawesa was my guide along with his partner (I'm apologize I can't remember his name). It was a wonderful tour. He shared so much deep knowledge and history about Soweto and its people. It was a vigorous and thorough tour as well. Highly recommend Mawesa. He was kind, hilarious and very easy to talk to.

Interesting expirience and understanding of the history of Soweto. Representative walk, good guide!!!

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!