Not tours
Living chapters
Privately authored journeys through Southern Africa
hosted in person, shaped around the people travelling and the story waiting to unfold.
Africa, known differently
Ground handling, known differently
A tour operator's week is decided long before the guests arrive — by who is driving, how long he has been awake, which direction the coach can legally take a mountain pass, and whether anyone has said out loud that the cableway closes for wind. That is the work. It is not glamorous and it is the whole difference.
Planned to the hour
Every day set out stop by stop, with the reasoning written down beside it — including where we would run your brief differently, and why.
Priced in the open
One net rate across five departures, with the hotel cost broken out month by month and your own margin shown beside ours.
Run by people who live here
Registered guides, from the arrivals hall to the check-in desk. A written note back to you after every departure.
The program
Six days, three hotels, one rate
Three journeys, and the beginning of more. Each is built around a place I know well enough to
take people somewhere they could not have found alone.
Five worlds, one journey
A privately commissioned passage from Africa’s wild southern reaches to Antarctica—across four landscapes that rarely belong to the same journey.
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The Kalahari Between Stars
An intimate passage through desert country, shaped by silence, distance and skies that seem to go on forever.
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Stories Beneath the Surface
A journey built around shared curiosity, close encounters and the small discoveries that make Africa unforgettable..
These three are only a beginning. Other chapters wait beyond them: further coastlines, quieter interiors, journeys shaped by season, purpose and the particular character of those who travel them.
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Built from a lifetime of paying attention.
Thirty years guiding across Southern Africa. Three hundred safari camps. Six thousand days on the road. That is not a credential, it is the reason we know that your day two cannot be done with one driver, and that Chapman's Peak only runs one way for a coach.
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Journeys with their own rhythm and character
Anything in the programme you would like changed, tell me and it is changed. The rates are working figures until the Palace is contracted, and I would rather agree them with you than send them to you.
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