Our Portfolio of Specialists consists of a wide range of high calibre, local experts from a variety of disciplines whose depth of knowledge really brings your trip to life.
This is our distinguishing difference.
We connect you to a cross section of informative people, hand picked for their ability to engage, who mix on-site explanations with off-site conversations, and mingle informally, especially over meals.
These guest lecturers escort you around interesting places, sharing nuggets of their knowledge, while tour leaders look after the practicalities.
What makes our tours enriching is that you get to meet a number of these master story-tellers on each tour, hear multiple perspectives and see with ”new eyes”… because we believe that …
A real voyage of discovery consists not only in
seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes
– Marcel Proust
Brief Biographies
Jean Pierre Rossouw
Jean-Pierre is a leading gastro authority who’s been immersed in wine & food writing, and wine judging for decades. He’s ...
Marcella Echavarria
Marcella is a New York based, lifestyle specialist who collaborates with designers artisans and entrepreneurs worldwide, developing links that connect ...
Marijke Honig
A plant ecologist by training, after studying botany at UCT, she worked at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Now an independent ...
Pamela McOnie
Pamela’s passions converge in her work – food, wine, creativity, travel, history, people, and the Cape. About 17 years ago ...
Rupesh Kassen
Rupesh ditched the corporate world after spending more than ten years working in the banking sector – to qualify as ...
Kobus van der Merwe
Chef Kobus is pioneering ways of introducing subtle and diverse flavours of the landscape into signature dishes at his world-acclaimed ...
John Parkington
After John’s early years at Cambridge and a PhD thesis entitled: “Follow the San’’, it does follow that his lifelong ...
The Rebergens
Janneke and Gert Rebergen have a keen interest in social development projects and understand the importance of social entrepreneurship, of ...
Lucy MacGarry
Lucy is a pioneering art curator, and co-founder of Latitudes Art Fair and Latitudes Online – a virtual marketplace created ...
Strijdom van der Merwe
A land artist who has always been taken by the magnificence of the sprawling landscape, he's best known for using ...
Fée Halstead
Fée is the heart and the vision behind Ardmore, South Africa’s most successful ceramics studio, where more than 50 artists ...
Ernst van Jaarsveld
Ernst is respected worldwide for his extensive research, profound knowledge and many publications of Southern Africa’s indigenous plants. After a ...
Sean Privett
He is one of South Africa’s leading botanists who has discovered several species previously unknown to humankind. Sean has an ...
Howard Geech
A multi talented operator working in conjunction with Prof. Lee Berger of Wits University, to offer exclusive palaeo-safaris within The ...
Sheryl Ozinsky
Located in the V&A Waterfront, the OZCF Market is a cheerleader for community farming and artisanal culture. (OZCF: The Oranjezicht ...
Tracey Randle
She finds stories that reflect the multiple layering of human history on our South African landscape. Her PhD explored the ...
Elizabeth van Heyningen
She has co-authored a two-volume history: Cape Town. The Making of a City, and Cape Town in the Twentieth Century ...
Loubie Rusch
Loubie is a wild foods explorer, innovator, activist and consultant, whose drive is getting people to know and grow forgotten ...
Adam Harrower
Trained as a botanist at the University of Cape Town and a horticulturist at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, he has ...
Rob Caskie
Being Natal Midlands born and educated, serving with Zulu troops during his SA national service, and voyaging around the globe ...
Trevyn McGowan
In Africa craft is very old, but ‘’design’’ is very young. In the established world of collectible design, South Africa ...
Andile Dyalvane
He creates signature classics by bringing the traditional and modern together. Staying true to his roots by creatively re-interpreting his ...
Phillippa Cheifitz
Highly respected author, she has published numerous best selling cookbooks including: Day to Day; Seasons; Cape Town Food; The Monday ...
Elbé Coetsee
Craft art doyenne and promoter of social entrepreneurship, she established the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation and initiated a craft ...
John Compton
After receiving his PhD from Harvard, John taught marine geology at the University of South Florida. After his arrival on ...
Antonia Malan
Antonia is actively involved in local heritage issues, is a trustee of Cape Town Heritage Trust, has chaired the Vernacular ...
Nigel Penn
Highly recognised authority on Cape history, who has published The Forgotten Frontier – Colonists and Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern ...
André van Graan
Restoration architect who worked on Hampton Court Palace & Windsor Castle, and specialised in Edwardian and Art Deco architecture, focusing ...