Cycle Through Soweto's Historic Landmarks
Your driver-guide will pick you up from your accommodation. It will be about a 60 to 90-minute drive to the starting point of your Soweto tour, depending on traffic and pick-up points.
Once the group has gathered, you will meet for some pre-cycling preparation.
Your first stop will be a lookout point over Orlando West and East. Take in the surroundings of the township, including the home grounds of the famous soccer team, the Orlando Pirates.
From there, continue to Mzimhlophe Men's Hostel, a former migrant workers' hostel. Learn how men from around the country moved to Johannesburg and its townships to work in the gold mines, the conditions they lived in, and how this area has transformed into a Soweto community today. Many locals still practise traditional African customs, and you will learn about their beliefs and traditions.
Continue via Meadowlands to the Hector Pieterson Memorial, which commemorates the uprisings of 16 June 1976, when hundreds of children and youths lost their lives while protesting the apartheid education system.
Proceed to Vilakazi Street, where you will stop at Nelson Mandela's former home and the home of Archbishop Desmond Tutu to learn more about these icons' contributions to a free and democratic South Africa.
Cycle back to Lebo's, where you can take in more of Soweto, the community, and its people.
