The Estate of Things - An Oranjezicht Heritage Tour

A friend of mine has highly recommended this tour guide, so I'm excited to finally go on one of their trips. I decided kind of last minute but wondered if anyone from this group would like to come along. I've pasted some information about the tour below - but you can read more and book tickets here they are R120 with a 7.50 booking fee.

"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 ice-cream cones from Unframed 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."