Mandela’s long walk on your phone
The map app features tourist sites as well as general places of interest in the four main provinces that defined Nelson Mandela’s life.
The Madiba-inspired tourist attractions map has now been developed into a mobile phone app.
Mandela’s Journey was developed last year by South African Tourism in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Tourists and South Africans seeking out sites and attractions associated with the late South African President will now have all the information they need at their fingertips.
The app features tourist sites as well as general places of interest in the four main provinces that defined Mandela’s life.
The sites range from the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Robben Island, where he was imprisoned and his post-Presidential office at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to Qunu in the Eastern Cape, where he is laid to rest.
‘As we remember the historic year of Madiba’s release from prison, we would like to encourage everyone to use the app to discover some of the stories behind the legend,’ said Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom.
‘This is an exciting new layer to the map which has already proved to be hugely popular with the international and domestic travel trade.
This app makes walking in the footsteps of Madiba much easier than before and greatly enriches visitors’ experiences of the attractions associated with one of the greatest men of our time, Nelson Mandela,’ he said.
The GPS-enabled app uses location based services to establish which attraction the user is visiting and provides real-time information to enrich their experience.
This includes written information on the attraction, audio describing the attraction and other relevant information including contact details, map previews and photo galleries.
The app also gives users their proximity from other Madiba-inspired tourist attractions and includes an itinerary builder, helping to make it as easy as possible for those wanting to visit numerous attractions to best plan their route.
It also makes it simple for visitors to share their experience on social media and features a rewards system linked to visitors’ social media activity. The rewards system will also encourage visitors to visit more than one Madiba site.
Download the Mandela’s Journey app from the Apple iTunes store (iOS devices) and the Google Play store (Android devices).
