Walking Tours In Cape Town

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

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

Looking for the best walking tours in Cape Town to help you explore the best of the Mother City? From bush-fringed beaches to sprawling city to leafy mountainside Winelands, all just minutes apart, the city has it all – and our local hosts will make sure you see it all! On walking tours of Cape Town with City Unscripted, there’s no such thing as a wrong turn, because our native Capetonian guides can navigate the city with their eyes shut. Whether you stick to the main roads in the heart of the city and move between must-sees in the shadow of Table Mountain or head off the beaten track to breathtaking locations loved by locals, our walking tours in Cape Town make every step count.

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!

Local hosts leading the way

From the iconic Castle of Good Hope keeping watch over the city to eclectic Long Street’s colorful bars and boutiques, it’s easy to get distracted by Cape Town’s iconic sights. But on private walking tours in Cape Town with our local guides, you’ll learn that the city has so much more to offer than the tourist traps. On our walking tours of Cape Town, locals take the reins – and they know the city better than a guidebook ever could. From hidden neighborhood markets to hole-in-the-wall restaurants serving Cape Malay cuisine, we’ll help you uncover secrets few travelers ever do.

Taking the road less traveled

Anyone with Google, a guidebook, and a comfortable pair of sneakers can spend a day exploring the busy main streets of the buzzing CBD, where most of the city’s top attractions congregate. On walking tours in Cape Town with City Unscripted, why not take the roads less traveled instead? Our insiders plan the ultimate private walking tours in Cape Town because they can get you off the tourist trail to show you incredible places you didn’t know existed. Quirky galleries, cozy bars, Cape Dutch architecture, and cool cafés are more of what you’ll see on our walking tours in Cape Town.

Walking tours for food-lovers

Looking for a way to fuel your walking tours of Cape Town? In a city dubbed the Rainbow Nation, it’s no surprise the food scene is just as colorful. Throughout its tumultuous history, countless cultures have made Cape Town home, and the vibrant food scene celebrates them all. Experience it for yourself on food walking tours in Cape Town! From a local cheese and charcuterie board at a sprawling wine estate to a “bunny chow” – half a loaf of bread hollowed out and overflowing with spicy curry – quickly eaten on the go, food walking tours in Cape Town cater to every type of foodie.

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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