Lesedi Cultural Village Half-Day Tour: Discover South African Tribes and Taste Their Cuisine
4.4
10 Ratings
Lanseria

Discover the various ethnic groups of South Africa in this half-day journey to the Lesedi Cultural Village. Gain insight into the customs of tribes like the Xhosa and the Zulu, along with an opportunity to sample their traditional food. Hotel transfers are included round-trip.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Lesedi Cultural Village - 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.

What's Included
  • Round-trip transportation provided
  • Water included
  • Expert guide accompanying the tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratitudes
Location
Lesedi Cultural Village
Portion 198 Of Farm no 493, Off the R512
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Janine_a
Mar 31, 2024
Cultural village tour - 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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Rashmid84
Feb 13, 2020
Amazing - 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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Ketlynf2020
Feb 5, 2020
Lesedi Cultural Village and cradle of humankind - 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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Martyn253
Nov 16, 2019
Great half day tour - This is a great half day tour out of the city very informative of the culture and tribes. The dance show was great.
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Carol
Sep 19, 2019
Carol Mellor - I had a lovely time at the village it was an amazing experience seeing all the different tribes in their different dress. and village and the show they put on at the end was the best I have seen it's certainly worth a visit
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John
Jun 23, 2019
A must do tour from Johannesburg - We only had about half a day and chose this for that reason. But even if you are in Johannesburg for longer you should fit it in. Its a great cultural experience. Really well presented by authentic local guides, who do a great job explaining the history & makeup of the major tribes of South Africa , their traditions and there way of life. It finishes with a fantastic singing & dancing display. We didn't stay for the lunch, so I can comment on that. A good market with very reasonable prices for some souveniers and such. Our Driver Clements was fantastic, punctual and a very good safe driver with a great vehicle, suitable for transporting 5 adults in comfort. He was fun & informative. This tour is great value & highly recommended.
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Suddhasatwa_r
Dec 29, 2023
Great tour - 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
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Shilpabhat_1984
Nov 11, 2019
Very good experience - We had a good experience with the whole tour. From pickup to drop, the whole experience was great. The village tour and the tribe dances were amazing. The guides were well informed.
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Terrymarc
Feb 27, 2020
Not Worthwhile Unless Done as a Private Tour - 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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