Private Tour Guides In Cape Town

Tailoring each tour to your wishes by locals who love their city

Tourists walking along a Cape Town beach with their local guide

Top private tours in Cape Town

From exploring cool neighborhoods to eating with the locals to seeing iconic sites, these are some of our favorite experiences

When in Osaka
make sure to try
“kushikatsu”!

See the city like
you would with a friend who lives there

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When in Osaka
make sure to try
“kushikatsu”!

See the city like
you would with a friend who lives there

The best private guides and local insiders in Cape Town

The most beautiful city in the world is waiting, and our Cape Town private tour guides can’t wait to show it to you. Our network of handpicked local guides in South Africa’s Mother City come from all ages, backgrounds, and careers, but they have one thing in common: they’re incredibly passionate about Cape Town and eager to share their city’s secrets with travelers like you. There’s nobody better than our Cape Town private tour guides to show you the best of the city. What are you waiting for? Book a personalized experience with one of our knowledgeable local hosts and experience Cape Town’s hidden gems and local haunts along with its top tourist sights.

Meet some of our Cape Town private guides

Like the people who travel with us, they have different backgrounds and interests – but they’re all so passionate about the place they call home, they choose to spend their free time sharing it with the like-minded travelers matched to them.

We’ve handpicked them and we’ll match you to your perfect one!

The V&A Waterfront with Table Mountain in the background on a sunny day in Cape Town

Highlights and hidden gems

Cape Town is known for its incredible natural beauty, from the iconic Table Mountain to the sparkling beaches and leafy Winelands. But on our private tours in Cape Town with local guides, you’ll quickly learn that several of the most incredible places to see and things to do in the city aren’t even in your guidebook. It won’t be difficult to spend weeks exploring top tourist sights like the Castle of Good Hope and the V&A Waterfront, but only with Cape Town private tour guides by your side can you discover the local haunts and lesser-known landmarks no tourist could find alone.

The iconic colorful huts along the peninsula of Cape Town

Itineraries tailored to you

No two travelers are the same. That’s why our Cape Town private tour guides take the time to get to know you – your passions, your personality, and your travel style. With this valuable information, they’re able to create 100% personalized tours tailored to you. Whether you want to see perfectly preserved examples of Cape Dutch architecture, spend a lazy afternoon tasting world-class wines on sprawling estates, or head out on a hiking trail with sweeping views of the sea and city below, you can rest assured our private tour guides in Cape Town will plan a day with you in mind.

Local guide walking the streets of Cape Town with a tourist

A conscious way to see Cape Town

Personalized tours with private tour guides in Cape Town help you build a deep cultural understanding of South Africa’s Rainbow Nation that wouldn’t be possible if you were traveling alone. Our Capetonian hosts offer unique insights into their society, and happily point out the local vendors, chefs, and artisans that deserve your support. Private tours in Cape Town led by our local hosts let you travel as consciously as possible and connect with the city on another level. Book a personalized experience with us, and feel the soul and spirit of Cape Town in a way you never imagined.

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Latest reviews from our guests

I only had half a day in Cape Town but really feel I got a great understanding of the town and how it got to where it is today culturally, economically and politically. Exactly what I wanted to understand.

November 2023

Eniola A
Our Gide impressed with interesting stories and conversations. We really enjoyed this 4 hour individual tour of Capetown. thank you very much

October 2023

Bernhard L
I am so lucky to have found one of the best tour guides in all of Cape Town. An intelligent family man who will make your trip so special, it was such an enjoyable and flexible experience. This tour created core memories and I can’t wait to come back and tour with this same service again!

September 2023

Addyson E
We booked a custom tour as we had specific places to see that were not included with our main package that was put together by a different company. We really wanted to see Bo Kaap and Woodstock and we saw those two places plus much more thanks to our amazing guide Tafadhali! First of all, Tafadhali was very accommodating, easy going and attentive in setting up our custom tour before we arrived. He made sure everything was set up exactly the way we wanted it, easing our minds as this was a last minute addition to our trip! He also made sure to communicate with us as the day of the tour grew closer to make sure we were still good with everything and were enjoying the first part of our trip which meant a lot to us! Once we met him, we felt more like family than people who were paying him to show us stuff and again this meant so much to us. Tafadhali is a great guide who is very interesting, very energetic, extremely passionate about what he does and is extremely knowledgeable about Cape Town. You will certainly enjoy your tour with Tafadhali, now all that is left to do is book him! Now for the tour... Tafadhali met us at our hotel and we decided to walk to Bo Kaap and this turned out to be a great choice as Tafadhali gave us historical and interesting facts about everything we were seeing and he even took time to divert farther off the route when we saw something interesting that we thought we needed to get a closer look at :-) Besides the colorful houses and learning the history we really wanted to enter the Auwal Mosque but it was real close to prayer, so we thought we missed out.... NOPE, Tafadhali negotiated with someone who was unlocking the gates and we were allowed in! The Mosque is beautiful and we were very humbled to be let in and be regaled with history and stories by the fantastic gentleman who graciously let us into the Mosque. From there we made it back to Tafadhali's car and once again were on our way using a longer route so he could show us more of the city than we anticipated seeing with him before ending up in Woodstock to see the awesome building Graffiti as well as making sure we knew the history and other information of the area. Thank you so much for the amazing tour Tafadhali!

September 2023

Christopher B