The Dutch, Islam and the colours of Bo-Kaap.

What will we visit on this tour?

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  38 Burg St, Cape Town City Centre, Ca...

  38 Burg St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

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  We meet at Heaven Coffee , 38 Burg Street. Heaven Coffee is situated inside the Central Methodist Mission Church (Gothic Revival Architecture) opposite Greenmarket Square African Curio market. I will wear visible tourist badge with name.

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  Greenmarket Square is the 2nd oldest Public Square and site of the historic Old Townhouse. Re-introduced as a flea market it has today evolved into mainly an African Curio/ Craft Market.
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  Riebeeck Square, originally an open space where visiting farmers could rest their livestock. Today it showcases the most ambitious architectural conservation and restoration the City has ever known.
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  71 Wale Street, The Izeko Bo-Kaap Museum is a walk into a nineteen century Muslim home and provides insights into this area and the contribution this community has made to the unique character of Cape Town.
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  Atlas Trading Company, since 1946, importers of spices . The Spice Mecca of Cape Town.
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  Chiappini Street is a mix of brightly painted houses. An expression of each family's embracing of ownership. A far cry from the colour of its dismal past.
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  Auwal Masjid is an historical landmark in Bo-Kaap and the location of the first writing of Afrikaans. A language birthed thru the tragedy of slavery and the fusion of an indiginous language and that of European settlers.