Vikan Tours

22/07/2026

A place you can come to year after year and never get enough

18/07/2026

It's soon time again folks. This happens only for a month every year. So get your bookings in soon. Video is from last year

17/07/2026

Some history is worth knowing.

The Portuguese were the first to round the Cape of Good Hope, achieved by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 and Vasco de Gama in 1497 (also the first European to reach India by sea). Following Vasco de Gama's discovery of a well-established gold trade along the east coast of Africa between local and Muslim merchants, many maps through the 16th and 17th centuries began to depict a wealth of fictitious information about the gold-rich Kingdom of Mutapa (Monomotapa to the Portuguese), including the river Spirito Sancto and the cities of Vigiti Magna, Samot, Davagul, Cumissa, and Monomotapa itself.

By 1652 traders of the Dutch United East India Company (VOC) had established a colony on the Cape of Good Hope with the intention to support a trade route between Europe and the East. Very soon after, the VOC and Jan van Riebeek, the first Commander of the Cape, were sending regular expeditions to the interior to locate the people of Monomotapa and their reputedly rich and highly civilised cities.

In 1685, the new Commander, Simon van der Stel, himself led an expedition and reached the supposed latitude of the city of Vigiti Magna. Although he did find a great river (the Orange River) and indications of copper ore, nowhere along this line towards the Atlantic could he find any trace of gold or a city, effectively bursting the myth of Vigiti Magna

17/07/2026

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Join the Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society on Saturday, August 8, for a free, exciting event featuring a ceremonial cannon firing at Het Posthuys, historical presentations, and refreshments, marking a pivotal moment in South African history.

19/06/2026

It's that time of the year, where nature and animals are putting on a show

18/06/2026

Saffron Pear Tree in Company Garden, Cape Town. 370 years old, just imagine that, 370 years.... That's a lot of history that tree have gone through. The oldest cultivated tree in South Africa

14/05/2026

From us to you

10/04/2026

You want to go? Contact us for the tour down Southern Peninsula

10/04/2026

VITP

If you are a university student, something new is coming soon. Keep an eye out.

17/03/2026

A place that never fails to impress