The Rustic City - An Oranjezicht Heritage Walking Tour!

Name: The Rustic City - An Oranjezicht Heritage Walking Tour!
Start: 2025-01-12T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-01-12T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Ou Meul Bakery

Schedule

Sun Jan 12 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Ou Meul Bakery | Cape Town, WC

Come embrace the early Summer sunshine this Sunday or next Saturday at 14h00 for a walking tour through the most lush and fascinating of all the city bowl suburbs! x
Yes, Oranjezicht is big enough to deserve and encompass a whole two-hour walking tour! In fact it's honestly underratedly dense and diverting.
This weekend, the point of the first outing on our 13th route around the peninsula will be the bucolic underside of the Table Valley: our beloved City Bowl filled up to the brim. It may be hard to believe right now but by Sunday evening you'll be able to envision Kaapstad being as leafy and peri-urban as Stellenbosch or Swellendam.
Starting from the Ou Meul Cafe on Upper Orange at 14h00, we'll successively circumnavigate Homestead Park, the Oranjezicht City Farm and the remains of the Stadsfontein before gambolling down Rosemount Avenue along the extant path of the Platteklip Stream past the grotesque display of colonial trappings we call the Hurling Pump before doubling back to criss-cross De Waal Park and the Molteno Reservoirs, meaning well in front of Welgemeend Estate and then ending with waffles from Ditto on Kloof Street because I want them to come on board as one of my sponsors sooner rather than later (rest assured we will still chat about the once-glorious tram system that gave Kloof Nek it's raison d'etre).
So what's the historic part then? Well, this path is the story of how Cape Town went from a vlek to a dorp to a stad far too quickly. In just two hours, you'll see the exponential rise of our demands for food, water, residences, leisure and community right at the foot of the most sublime of all backdrops for a city stage. And what's more, you'll marvel at how all this space manages to still feel like a village sanctuary just a few minutes' walk from a perenially-hectic CBD...
So please come join? The best thing you could have done this Saturday or Sunday was go meet new dogs by the Victorian fountain anyway x
Yours in rabbit holes,
Cameron of CTHT x
P.S. If you've read this far I'm guessing you'll want even more of the specs, so here goes:
- We'll be starting by the Ou Meul Restaurant on the corner of Upper Orange Street and Montrose then finishing by Ditto on Kloof on Kloof just under two hours later, so happily park somewhere in the middle or do a two-car system or (lord forbid) take the MyCiTi bus the whole day to everywhere.
- We used to be donation-based but to secure our future we're now doing a pre-booking system whereby you can guarantee your tickets beforehand at R120pp, or you can join the tour on the day for R150pp in cash or EFT et al. If you are only a temporary Capetonian, the prices go up by R100, but if you write me a review afterwards or argue successfully that we're all technically temporary Capetonians, I might waive the tariff... Regardless, simply WhatsApp us via 076 033 8164 or Message us via the buttons on our home page to secure your place.
- This is a consistently well-reviewed heritage-focused walking tour; which is to say that all you'll need to enjoy yourself is curiosity about Cape Town's past (and History in general) and enough stamina to walk just less than 3km in one afternoon (with stops and snacks).
- If you're rejoining us, please please please please please please consider dropping us a short (or extensive) review on our Facebook Reviews or Google Reviews section as it will help spread our gospel of curiosity and playful appreciation across the internet and across the spectrum of all potential visitors to the Cape. It helps us more than you can believe!
- We've also introduced an optional R10 donation on your ticket which will go directly to the NGO Streetscapes as part of our mission to spread love, enthusiasm, mutual support and respect for all of Cape Town's people and histories. Just think how many people we could help and the difference we could make with a few hundred tours!
- Feel absolutely free to spread the word, invite friends who've been looking for this kind of experience and badger us with every imaginable heritage query. We live for it!
Can't wait to meet ya, really! 🙂