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Mashaba Tours Sees Families Book Combined Soweto and Safari Days

School holidays and dry winter bush are pushing demand towards the operator’s longer combination itineraries.

The July school holidays have shifted the shape of what travellers are asking for in Johannesburg. Mashaba Tours, which runs guided township, city and wildlife day trips out of the city, is seeing the longer combination itineraries do the work that single site visits used to, as families try to fit history and game viewing into the same short window.It is a practical response to a real constraint. Most visitors to Johannesburg are in the city for two or three days, often on either side of a flight to Cape Town or the Kruger. That leaves very little room to treat a township visit and a safari as separate undertakings.

The full day combinations

Mashaba Tours addresses this with itineraries that pair destinations inside a single day. The Soweto and Johannesburg city route runs about eight hours and takes in Constitution Hill and the Carlton Centre viewing deck alongside the township. The Soweto and Apartheid Museum pairing covers the political history in one sequence, entrance fees to the township museums included. The longest option stitches Johannesburg, Soweto and the Apartheid Museum together across nine hours.

Its Soweto Tours remain the anchor of the programme. The full day township route includes the Hector Pieterson Museum and the Mandela House Museum on Vilakazi Street, with entrance fees covered, and is listed at R1,290 per person on a two person…

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