Private Lesedi Cultural Village Half Day Tour
Description
Learn about the different tribes of South Africa on this half-day tour to the Lesedi Cultural Village. Get a window in to the culture of tribes such as the Xhosa and the Zulu, as well as a chance to taste their cuisine. Round-trip hotel transportation included
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Itinerary
You depart from your hotel in Johannesburg on this culture themed tour heading to Lesedi Culture Village which is a about an hour drive from Johannesburg. You drive through Johannesburg's leafy suburbs travelling through Johannesburg North en-route the Village. As you progress on the trip, you'll realize that now you are leaving the city and heading out of town. This is characterized again with the terrain of the road as you further pull away from the city to a more countryside type of environment. By now you will start to learn about the Zulus and why they like the fighting sticks, the Xhosa with their trademarks blankets and the drums and whistles of the Pedi people just to mention a few. Once at Lesedi the atmosphere changes to a traditional set up where you get to see the homesteads in their traditional set-up. You are split to groups to get a feeling of the diversity in culture with each group getting maximum exposure from the various traditional diversity. You also get to know how much dowry each tribe asks for and of course, this is paid in cows and the day will not be over without a taste a local cuisine. After, you hop back to your tour van and head back to your hotel in Johannesburg.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(14)
It was an amazing experience. Really interesting to learn more about South Africa and your culture! Thank you all 🫶🏼
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My experience with Virgio Tours was wonderful. Prompt and was patient throughout the entire time they were assigned to our group. A wonderful experience!
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It was wonderful. Find out if they are serving lunch and or dinner. The food is amazing. Everyone was welcoming. The knowledge sharing is exactly what I was looking for. It is a cultural experience for the books.
definitely a must see
The tour was very educational and the performances was magnificent! I felt so full at heart watching the dancers. They represented what culture should look like.
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Great trip out to a tourist village set up to show you the differences in all the different tribes in South Africa.
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Beautiful function focused on Zulu tribe culture really enjoy it but vigo tour should supply each of traveler bottles of water but the didn't it
Guide never provided, perhaps forgot water
Amazing experience. Who indicated me and accompanied me until there was the tourist guide Cristina Marques. She is a national guide, operates throughout the country and lives 30 years in the country. Contact: +27 (76) 724-0556
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We had a great Virgio private tour of Soweto yesterday — with an excellent guide — so decided to book this tour through them for today. A big mistake! This tour was private only in the sense of the long drive to and from our hotel to Lesedi, and even this was compromised by having another person along for the ride (his presence was never explained and he didn’t say more than two words the whole trip). Our driver/guide was almost as bad — no personality whatsoever and limited command of understandable English. We had been told that we would have a private guide take us through the various Lesedi villages. Instead, we were put in a group of 40 other people. With this many people, you could hardly hear, hardly see, and wasted much time on everything having to be repeated over and over again. The villages themselves were only mildly interesting and the format was way too touristy and hokey. Our driver/guide wandered around with us but never said a word — not a word! We got so turned off by the crunch of people in our group that we aborted the visit after seeing only 2 of the 5 villages. Don’t waste your money on this tour!
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Amazing experience. This is a must do !! Got to learn about different African tribes and their lifestyle. The dance performance was excellent.
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The tour was amazing. Village Lesedi is a lot of fun,a culture show and typical dance. The cradle of humanity is very cool, a beautiful place, with a fun guide. Super attentive and patient driver helped me with all doubts and difficulties, as my English is not good. Thank you for making my trip a pleasant one.
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