Where It All Began

What We Do

Discover bespoke travel in South Africa !

At Where It All Began, we take a very different approach to travel in Africa. Rather than isolating you from the country behind steel and glass in a car or bus, we want you to experience this mystical region like the locals do, out in the open air, coming across interesting places and people, powered only by natural forces or your own body and, above all, slowing everything down. Africa is an experience to be savoured.

That’s why we’ve built a whole series of adventures that as far as possible use activities like hiking, cycling and horse-riding to travel between places and, when you’re there, to use the most ecologically sensitive ways of exploring them (e.g. by kayak, on foot, by sail, by tram or ebike).

We also understand that not everybody has the time or the fitness to travel in an active and adventurous way so every journey is designed around how you like to experience a country. We will suggest the adventurous way to do and see something, but we’ll also suggest the more sedate too!

Most of our journeys involve something active and adventurous but not necessarily itinerant. We can also build in any component you’d like, such as a beach break, a mountain-top retreat, a safari or a weekend in the city. Southern Africa has so, so much to offer that you may end up never leaving – just like us!

HOW WE CREATE YOUR ITINERARY

STEP 1

Call us or use the contact form

STEP 2

We will then plan an itinerary based on your preferences

STEP 3

We send you a detailed itinerary document

STEP 4

We work with you to refine the itinerary until you're happy

Why use us to plan your trip?

  • We spend at least two months on the road every year seeking out the high-quality, unusual and off-the-beaten track places that you would struggle to find on your own.
  • We build the entire trip for you, taking care of all the boring and irritating logistics of flight times, car hire, insurances and payment to each place.
  • We work with your ideas and build the trip around them: you can use us for the whole trip or just bits of it, as you choose (most travel agents don’t let you do that).
  • We stay in touch with you on a daily basis whilst you travel, making sure that things are set up exactly as you’d like them.
  • We’re a Fair Trade approved and fully accredited, insured and licensed travel agency.