Cultural tours of South Africa.

Q:What is a Cultural Tour?

A: These are people to people tours where we will introduce you to the people,culture,customs,traditions and lifestyles of the various tribal/ethnic groups of South Africa.These tours are unique in that we move from the Urban into the rural areas where you will experience living tribal culture as it exists today,where the past meets the present in the ever changing current of time.

All of our South Africa Cultural Tours are locally privately guided tours,locally means guides who grew up in those area’s who have been trained and are registered guides.

Our Eastern Cape Cultural Tours and Venda Art and Craft Tours are designed to ensure that tourism contributes directly to the development of previously disadvantaged communities.

New initiates Eastern Cape

Xhosa youth dressed up after the traditional initiation ceremony.

What type of lodging do I expect when I am on of these South Africa Cultural Tour,whether its in the Eastern Cape or Venda.

See some of our South Africa Cultural Tour Lodging.

The lodging we use are all rural guest houses,Bed and Breakfasts,smaller hotels,with Western Style bathrooms,or village backpackers that have traditional huts to earth homes with shared ablutions.

These traditional huts with western style bedding are mainly found on the Wild Coast Hike along with quaint smaller coastal hotels that have en suite bathrooms.

Notifications about Africa Safaris and South Africa Tours.

Cultural Tour Locations:

Our South Africa Cultural tours give you the opportunity to be an observer or for you to be more involved for eg sit,talk and learn some bead work with local village women,bake bread with locals in the villages of the Eastern Cape,volunteer your time and skills,learn to do Venda pottery etc.

Eastern Cape Cultural Tours.

Wild Coast coast Eastern Cape

Location:

The area below Kwa Zulu and immediately after the Garden route.

Activities:

Village immersion,Wild Coast Hikes,Nelson Mandela Village and Museum,Afrikaner Farm Life,Malaria free Safaris.

Best time to visit:

The Eastern Cape does not have a distinctive weather pattern as it sits below the humidity of Kwa Zulu and above the Mediterranean weather of the Western Cape.

Venda Cultural Tours.

Location:

The area above and to the west of the Kruger National Park

Activities:

Arts/Crafts ie potters,drum makers,wood carvers,village visits, Venda Fruit/Vegetable Market
good birding,close to the Tuli Block of Botswana,fruit/veg markets.
local African church services,UN World Heritage Site of Mapungubwe