TES Adventure Travel

15/09/2024

Avoid disappointment and book your place on our 2025 tour. There are only a few places left.

28/08/2024

Cape Town teens, make sure to attend this meeting with your parents. The 2025 tour will be launched in Cape Town at this meeting. There are only 18 places available on tour from CT

28/08/2024

Listen up all Randburg teens. Do not miss out on an amazing opportunity and make sure you attend this meeting with your parents, where the 2025 tour will be launched. There are only 18 places available on tour from Johannesburg.

26/08/2024

It is with great excitement that we would like to announce our tour for 2025!

This tour has NO NAME yet.
YOU are invited to e-mail the name you think is most suitable to TES ([email protected])
The person whose name is used, will receive a special treat on tour!

We shall be undertaking a tour to Portugal, Spain and Morocco.
From 28 June to 16 July 2025

The LAUNCH DATES are as follow:
In Johannesburg, we shall be meeting in the pavillion of RPHS on
8 September 2024
In Cape Town the LAUNCH will be on
10 September and the meeting will be in the school hall of WGHS

More detail will be posted shortly.

Please make sure that you:
* attend the meeting and
* that you are able to secure your place on tour when booking by paying a deposit of R12 000.

There is place for 36 people on tour:
18 from Johannesburg and 18 from Cape Town.

Take care and hope to see you in 2 weeks' time

12/08/2024

It is with much sadness that we learned of the passing of Andrea Camaiti who was killed in a motorbike accident in Pievo Santo Stefano over the weekend. Andrea was our bus driver on the 2006 Andiamo Italy tour, and instantly became our favourite Italian. He also set an impossibly high bar that no future bus driver could possibly meet.

Over the past 18 years we were fortunate enough to meet up with Andrea every time one of us or the TES group went to Italy. He would go out of his way to see us, sometimes riding several hours either way on his motorbike to spend a few hours with us. The language barrier did not prevent us from having long, deep, meaningful conversations, and sharing many fun, humorous moments together.

The conversations via text/social media over the years were often hilarious as we were trying to navigate English, Italian and Afrikaans, but certainly became easier - although less funny - as Google Translate and other apps improved. Checking in with each other in times of celebrations as well as grief was a given.

We are so grateful for the many memories we have: following Soccer World Cup matches (esp. watching the 2006 finals in San Gimignano and celebrating through the night); stopping next to the highway in Switzerland for the South Africans' first experience of snow while singing Heidi in 3 different languages; discussing the adventures of Molly the pig for years and - totally unrelated, he assured us - getting to taste his home-made salami and other delicacies; being awe-struck by his ability to manoeuvre a massive bus around the tightest corners; greeting the adults with espressos every time we returned to the bus; teaching him to say good night ("lekker slaap") in Afrikaans and convincing the tour members that he was able to understand them the whole time; and so much more.

TES Adventure Travel has lost a dear, dear friend, and our deepest condolences go out to Romina, Chiara and the rest of Andrea's family and friends.

Your South African 'family' is heartbroken.

Lekker slaap, Andrea !

Estelle Smith Sjaene Van Wyk

11/05/2024

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28/03/2024

Wishing you a blessed Easter.

07/11/2023

Important Notice Regarding Our Upcoming Tour

Upon returning from a splendid tour of Greece and Italy in July 2023, we received numerous inquiries about the destination for TES Adventure Travel's 2024 tour.
After extensive discussions among my colleagues and I, we decided to forgo a tour in 2024 and instead plan for an exceptional tour in 2025, with its launch set for September 2024.

The principal reason behind our decision is the significant price increases across all sectors of the travel industry. By delaying the next tour, we aim to provide our clients with additional time to save and prepare for what promises to be an unforgettable adventure in 2025.

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Find below some memories made in 2023

13/07/2023

Thank you for making GRIT 23 an amazing tour!

12/07/2023

Saying good bye to Istanbul, Italy, and Greece; GRIT2023; and each other. A fabulous farewell dinner, a spectacular sunset cruise, and teary good byes at the airport.

12/07/2023

Istanbul was experienced on very little sleep, but wow, did it deliver! Our fabulously cool guide Berk took us to the Hippodrome, past the Blue Mosque to the Hagia Sofia, throught the Topkapi Palace and let us loose in the Grand Bazaar.

12/07/2023

Our last day in Italy was spent in beautiful, historic Bologna doing last minute shopping, eating Gianni's incredible ice cream, exploring the city, going to mass and appreciating the finer things (cough cough..waiters) the city has to offer.

12/07/2023

Saturday, 8 July Part2: In Monte Sole we hiked on one of the routes of the N**i Massacres of 1944. Almost 800 women, children, babies and old men of the Monte Sole area were rounded up and brutally murdered by the N**is in an attempt to break up the Stella Rossa (a brigade of the partisan resustance) over a few days in late September/early October 1944.

On the route we followed, the dozen families who lived and farmed there were almost entirely wiped out.

12/07/2023

Saturday 8 July was all about WWII in the area between Florence and Bologna. We started our day in Castiglione dei Pepoli, where the SA War cemetery as well as a wing in the museum dedicated to the role South Africa played in liberating the area are situated.

The people of Castiglione and Monte Sole are so consistently grateful for the role SA played in their liberation from the N**is, and we were treated with such generosity. We were welcomed by the mayor, former deputy mayor, and various people involved in the museum., and spent a couple of hours in the final resting place of those who died fighting the N**is, and reading their stories.

It was a deeply moving and special experience, made even more touching because longstanding Tes Adventure friends Mauro, Andrea and Chiara joined us.

08/07/2023

Florence by day.

08/07/2023

Florence by night.

07/07/2023

Hello Toscana. We do love you! Photo dump of us en route to Borgo Santinovo. Oh my shattered nerves! What a wonderful place. We went via San Gimignano, had to have the best ice cream in the world, it really is amazing. 😋😋. Got to the venue after driving through beautiful Tuscany. We all fell in love with the venue and didn't want to leave. They gave us a delicious dinner in an amazing setting. The children swam, and just loved life.
The next morning after scrumptious brekkie, we were off again. Went to see the beautiful Capella Di Vitaleta. Yet another postcard opportunity. We then went to swim at Bagni St Fillippi.
We did a bit of picnic food shopping for when we back to our accommodation. From what we saw that was being bought, we had some wanna be Master chefs 😀. They didn't burn down the buildings. This is good! We are having a wonderful time under the Tuscan Sun .

07/07/2023

It was spa day at the hot springs of Bagni San Filippo.