# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm - **Event Description**: VERY, VERY EXCITING NEWS! For the first time ever, we've brought back an old Heritage Tour route! We last did the East City tour all the way back in 2022, but as a result of finding work at the Free Walking Tours and the Tuin Plein park becoming an unsafe precinct, I regretfully dropped it from the roster. But thanks to the sterling efforts of the new Lower Gardens CID and the generosity of my manager, I've decided now's the perfect time to fit it back into our schedule. I've only slightly adapted the original write-up, have a read: No part of Cape Town is changing faster than the East City... I mean, have you been down Harrington Street lately? There are like four different development crews on one block all racing each other to finish their luxury flats and co-working venues first! We better get down there before the artisanal yuppies all pay their deposits... Scarred and traumatised for decades by the murder of District Six, the vertical strip between the Company Gardens and Canterbury Street has only just now become the heart of the CBD's resurgence as a liveable city. Though still sketchy in places, and having borne some of the worst effects of the Covid crash, it seems likely to emerge as the new sub-hub of CPT thrift and glee now that we can all cough in each other's faces again. Thus I propose we spend a few hours this Sunday afternoon zig-zagging down the backbone of the Buitenkant, charting the web of dank Orwellian bureaucracies, gorgeous Victorian frontages and paradoxical combos of taste and squalor that define the old no-man's-land of Die Vlek. Remember that the VOC Dutch thought of everything beyond Adderley as either farmland or labourers' quarters, so this'll really be our one true Empire tour through the course of the 19th-Century, reading in stone and cobbles how the Cape Colony evolved in a dozen decades from an accidental Southern Gibraltar to the Queen's favoured getaway spot for her 21st Birthday... You'll also learn the tallest tales you'll ever get to hear about Dunkley Square, the Cape Mountain Club; Stag's Head, the Perseverance Tavern and the Kimberley Hotel; the antique tronk on Roeland Street, the horror and loveliness of historic Church square, the faint echoes of early modern commerce on Plein Street, the unparalleled freemason's lodge tucked in front of Parliament, the ghosts on Coffee Lane of which just a sign remains, the refurbished churches that attracted new congregations as the Fugard Theatre and the District Six museum, the war stories of Struggle activists locked up in Police HQ and finally the imperial-militaristic-technocratic complex that links City Hall, the Castle, the Grand Parade and the Old Drill Hall across all the many centuries. Sound heady enough for you? Feel like joining for just one of those? We'll start at the Perseverance Tavern in the middle of Buitenkant and work our way round and about the bounds of time and space. All you need to bring are snacks, curious questions, walking shoes, donations, friendly vibes and a deep excitement to truly make this city your own. Oh yes, and RSVP, won't you? Can't wait to rendezvous x Yours, CP of CTHT in CPT. P.S. If you've read this far I'm guessing you'll want even more of the specs, so here goes: - We'll be starting by the entrance to the Perseverance Tavern near the top of Buitenkant Street at 14h00 then finishing by the entrance to the Castle of Good Hope just near the bottom two-and-a-half hours later, so happily park on Roeland Street, do a two-car system or (lord forbid) take the MyCiTi bus the whole day. - We've just put up our ticket prices for the first time in two-and-a-half years, from R120pp to R150pp. Obviously this is just to keep with inflation and to allow the tours to remain a sustainable enterprise for the foreseeable future, but this is still about R50 less per person than our nearest competition. In other words, we are deliberately undercharging the tours so as to keep them affordable for locals and visitors alike and to encourage guests to come back weekend after weekend. - Book via Quicket, WhatsApp us on 076 033 8164, E-mail us on cameronlukepeters812@gmail.com or Message us via the buttons on our home page to secure your place. - We have also just introduced a broad scheme of discounts you can apply for on each tour, so please do consult the list below before contacting us! - And we've decided to partner with a different local NGO or charity for each and every one of our tour routes so that R10 of every ticket purchased goes directly to a good, sustainable, local cause. For the East City tour, we've chosen to fund-raise for Streetscapes, and you can inspect their brilliance here: https://streetscapes.org.za - This is a consistently well-reviewed heritage-focused walking tour; which is to say that all you'll need to enjoy yourself is curiosity about Cape Town's past (and History in general) and enough stamina to walk just less than 3km in one afternoon (with stops and snacks). - If you're rejoining us, please please please please please please consider dropping us a short (or extensive) review on our Facebook Reviews or Google Reviews section as it will help spread our gospel of curiosity and playful appreciation across the internet and across the spectrum of all potential visitors to the Cape. It helps us more than you can believe! - You can also add an optional R10 donation on your ticket which will go directly to the NGO Streetscapes as part of our mission to spread love, enthusiasm, mutual support and respect for all of Cape Town's people and histories. Just think how many people we could help and the difference we could make with a few hundred tours! - Feel absolutely free to spread the word, invite friends who've been looking for this kind of experience and badger us with every imaginable heritage query. We live for it! Can't wait to meet ya, really! ? THE CTHT DISCOUNT LIST: 1. Guests over 65 and under 18 can claim a 33% discount on each ticket, at R100pp pre-booked. 2. If you buy tickets for both the Saturday and Sunday tours on one weekend, you can claim R50 off each ticket, at R200pp pre-booked. 3. If you buy a Cape Town Heritage Tours Tote-Bag or any of our books on sale at our Half-Booked Online Shop, you can claim a free tour voucher for each piece of merchandise. 4. You can buy individual advance vouchers for our public tours at R150 each and then message in the week before a scheduled tour. But you can also buy value-packs of five for the price of 4 (R600), 10 for the price of 7 (R1050) or all 18 for the price of 10 (R1500). 5. If you bring 2 or more friends on a weekend tour you can claim R30 back on each of your tickets, at R120pp pre-booked. 6. If you share the posts promoting individual tours you can claim R30 back as well, at R120pp. 7. If you review the tours on Google Reviews, Facebook or TripAdvisor (at any rating) you can claim 50% off your next ticket, at R75pp pre-booked. 8. Likewise if you recommend the tours to a friend who then attends a weekend tour, you can claim 50% off your next ticket, at R75pp pre-booked. See ya next weekend! - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cape-town/the-little-parade-a-heritage-walking-tour-through-lower-gardens-and-the-east-city/200029666698346 - **Event Categories**: Nonprofit, Sports, Workshops, Art, Theatre, Contests - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Cape Town - **state**: WC - **country**: South Africa - **location**: Perseverance Tavern - **lat**: -33.930561787124 - **long**: 18.421001926395 - **full address**: Perseverance Tavern, 83 Buitenkant Street,Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/a3ef05e65eaa15973a6d22f6badf14f8680a189b582e9aa4ba8f41f9f43bd962-rimg-w735-h491-dc051108-gmir?v=1771120246 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City being held? - **A:** The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City takes place on Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm at Perseverance Tavern, 83 Buitenkant Street,Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City? - **A:** The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City is organized by Cape Town Heritage Tours. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Little Parade - A Heritage Walking Tour through Lower Gardens and the East City", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/a3ef05e65eaa15973a6d22f6badf14f8680a189b582e9aa4ba8f41f9f43bd962-rimg-w735-h491-dc051108-gmir?v=1771120246", "startDate": "2026-02-15", "endDate": "2026-02-15", "url": "https://allevents.in/cape-town/the-little-parade-a-heritage-walking-tour-through-lower-gardens-and-the-east-city/200029666698346", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Perseverance Tavern", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "83 Buitenkant Street,Cape Town, Western Cape", "addressLocality": "Cape Town", "addressRegion": "WC", "addressCountry": "ZA" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "-33.930561787124", "longitude": "18.421001926395" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "VERY, VERY EXCITING NEWS!\n\nFor the first time ever, we've brought back an old Heritage Tour route!\n\nWe last did the East City tour all the way back in 2022, but as a result of finding work at the Free Walking Tours and the Tuin Plein park becoming an unsafe precinct, I regretfully dropped it from th", "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Cape Town Heritage Tours", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/cape-town-heritage-tours/19478907" } ] } ] ```