Unique&Different Ways to Tour South Africa — Off the Beaten Track

We build every itinerary around a single theme and hand it to a working expert in that field. Most South African operators sell one product — the Kruger and Cape Town circuit — repackaged under different names. We built ten separate journeys instead: one for photographers, one for birders, one for conservation, one for families, one for golfers, and so on. The photographer's trip is led by a professional photographer. The conservation trip is run with field researchers. No two of our tours share an itinerary.

It means named places most itineraries skip. We use private reserves in the Greater Kruger rather than the busy southern Kruger gates, the malaria-free Madikwe and Pilanesberg reserves, and Western Cape areas such as the Cederberg, the Overberg, De Hoop Nature Reserve and the Karoo. You travel privately rather than in a coach group, and on several routes you will go a full day without seeing another tour vehicle.

Yes — and it is one of our ten specialist journeys rather than a standard tour with children added on. Our family safari uses malaria-free Big Five reserves, so no child needs anti-malarial medication. Guides are chosen specifically for their experience hosting children, game drives are shortened and made interactive for younger travellers, and accommodation is booked as family suites or connecting rooms. A family trip should be planned for how families actually travel.

Yes, though they suit a particular kind of first-timer. If you want a checklist of the country's greatest hits, a standard operator will serve you well and often more cheaply. Our journeys suit travellers who already know what they care about — wildlife photography, birds, conservation, golf, travelling with their children — and would rather go deep on that than skim the surface of everything.

Yes. Every journey is fully customisable, and combinations are common — photography with birding, golf with a family safari, wellness with the Whale Coast. Tell us the two things you care about and we will build a single itinerary that does both properly rather than splitting the difference.

Every journey is priced individually because every journey is tailor-made — the cost depends on your dates, your group size, your choice of lodges and how much specialist access you want built in. We are not the cheapest operator in South Africa and we do not try to be; a professional photographer guiding you for eight days costs more than a driver. We will send you a complete, obligation-free itinerary and quote before you commit to anything.