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I ran into a guy with a similar idea in Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa. He had started out doing the standard Township Tour, where you go visit the slum and take

I ran into a guy with a similar idea in Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa. He had started out doing the standard Township Tour, where you go visit the slum and take pictures of yourself standing next to poor people. Naturally, it didn't work out so well for him. Until, that is, an Australian convinced him to modify the tour into... "Township Pub Crawl" So now, he takes you into the township at night, and quickly gets several beers into you at a few of the local government-issue-shack-turned-bar. Before you know it, you're arm-in-arm with the local Reggae band doing their Bob Marley covers on a beat up $5 casio toy keyboard, talking with toothless moms and holding their babies, and generally having the time of your life. He's booked solid every night.

whatusername 17y ago
Why does it not surprise me that an Aussie suggested a Pub Crawl? Still - from the sounds of it - meeting the locals at a bar sound much more authentic than the original idea.
- jasonkester 17y ago
  So the story goes, one time a couple tourists decided it would be a good idea to go back to the same bars by themselves the next night. They had another good night about the township, but were intercepted on the way home by a group of locals that they'd been drinking with an hour earlier, who relieved them of all their money as well as their shoes. South Africa is a rough place.