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South Africa Safari Tours

Cultural Tours

Roots of the rainbow nation
Our rainbow nation is a reality - but an elusive one. One moment it's glowing in full colour, the next it's hidden behind a cloud of negative experience, so you'd be forgiven for being a little confused. But we treasure our varied and diverse cultural heritages and would love to share them with you.

The easiest way would be for you to visit one of our many cultural villages. They're not real life, but they do give an insight into the way we live. You'll also find a whole host of fascinating ideas, facts and opinions in our many museums and monuments, but nothing can beat actually meeting real people.

Take the time to do a tour of our cities. Many people consider township tours to be voyeuristic - and they can be - but most are done with sensitivity and pride. Also try to travel through some of the traditional rural areas and perhaps spend time in small villages.

Closer to home, no matter where you live, this is where your roots are. It's pretty much accepted that human life started in Africa, and probably South Africa. Most people look at the world differently after a tour of the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg - one of the richest hominid fossil sites in the world.

Fossilised footprints near Cape Town, and the myriad rock paintings and surviving shelters all over the country, also testify to our ancient origins on this ancient continent.

More recently, our history has been one of conflict and confrontation, but also of reconciliation and restitution. You can explore the battlegrounds where the bloody events that shaped our nation took place. From Isandlwana or Talana in Zululand, to Soweto, or Langa in Cape Town, the land tells a story - but one that's hard to interpret, so it's worth doing a guided tour.

We show the wounds of our past - check out the Women's Monument in Bloemfontein or the Apartheid Museum at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg. But we also proudly announce our new-found unity. A visit to Robben Island will show just how powerful that attitude can be. We've taken a place of oppression, isolation and despair, and turned it into a symbol of hope and forgiveness. And that's what we're trying to do with our whole country.

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