Tamrich Tours Travel Bistro

23/09/2024

Attending the launch of K3 - The longest Zipline in the World! 3.2km of pure adrenaline!

23/05/2024

06/05/2024

Flying the flag again!

14/03/2024

Where am I? Your clients could be here too… contact Tamrich for the answer.

11/03/2024

To all our Friends, Family and Colleagues, we wish you a Blessed Ramadan Kareem.

06/03/2024

Simply Wow!!!

13/07/2023

There you have it folks… that’s what we are talking about!

South Africa 🇿🇦 has been named the best country to visit.

Readers surveyed by the UK's Telegraph newspaper say it is the world's best tourist destination.

Find out why here ➡️ https://bbc.in/43hYexL

01/05/2023

Busy day, promoting South Africa…

28/04/2023

Attending Arabian Travel Market in Dubai 01-04 May 2023: Stand AF2430 Sheikh Saeed Hall 3.
Please pop in to see us & meet Richard, Rob and Madeleine.

31/07/2022

08/10/2021

23/09/2021

Hey intrepid travellers!! Check out our offer in a few local Joburg publications. Will be great to hear from you…

26/01/2021

This is how we are rolling in South Africa - bartering, supporting small local businesses and appreciating the talents we all have... by the way if you need a travel writer Sandi is your gal....

This is how it works these days. On my desk is a brown paper packet with a smiley face that says Sandra. There are two notebooks and a couple of pens inside. I don’t want to open it yet cause I love the packaging. I bought it from, and had it delivered by, a small business, a local supplier. Next ...

15/12/2020

With our beaches being closed for the duration of the Festive Season, here are a few activities to consider:

Add: paragliding, Knysna Zipline and Mossel bay Zipline to the list!

08/12/2020

To those who know our local radio DJ... Carl Wastie!! Cape Town showing off again!!

11/11/2020

The news we were all hoping to hear: international travel is now open to travellers from all countries. All travellers need to visit us is a negative COVID-19 certificate. We’re finally on the road to recovery.

01/11/2020

WHAT AN AMAZING PIECE DESCRIBING SA.

I sit here quietly thinking about what it means to me to be South African, a visitor to South Africa or even African. It seems easier to explain the effect that this land has on me...

The perfume of rain on African soil. The scent of woodfires drifting across the highveld on winter evenings. There's a very distinctive aroma just as one starts coming into George / Knysna / Plett (I've never figured out which herb it is), in much the same way the smell of Wild Sage defines the area around Santawani in Botswana. The odour of thatch in a game lodge. The bouquet of dust and the various plants when one gets into the bush, sometimes a whiff of something dead. The tang of the ocean at the seaside. The smell of ‘moer’ coffee over an early morning fire, or the delicious aroma of roasting meat over flames – whether you call it a braai or shisa nyama (but definitely NOT a barbeque, a barbie, or a ghastly NZ sausage sizzle!)

There is also something about the light here. “Santorini Blue”... I don’t know if that’s an actual colour, but it seems to describe the hue of the highveld sky on a winter’s day to perfection. We live in “big sky” country – whether blue, or orange in sunset, or dark grey and rent by lightening, or velvet black and filled with stars that seem close enough to touch – the sky is ever present. As is the moon. I am always aware of the moon, from a sickle moon to the full fecund globe that is full moon. Silver light gilding thorn trees, juxtaposed against dark shadows on the savannah, is not a sight one easily forgets.

The caw of the ubiquitous, raucous Hadedah in suburbia, the burbling call of a rainbird (Burchell’s Coucal) when a thunderstorm is on its way, the beautiful Diederick’s Cuckoo announcing the arrival of spring, the screech of a barn owl or the evocative call of the Fish Eagle. Jackals calling as the sun goes down, a lion’s roar quite literally making the air reverberate, or the chilling whoops of the hyenas. The cacophony of barking geckos that start up as the sun goes down over Deception Pan, or a veritable orchestra of frogs around a pan in the summer months. Cicadas shrilling on days so hot that the air shimmers, or a nightjar calling in the dead of night in the bushveld.

Days of withering heat often followed by the lightest cool breeze, just as the sun is setting. A gentle little wind, which plays with your hair like an absent-minded lover, reminding you that the cool of the night will soon be with you. Walking in the bush very early in the morning, the sun’s rays catch the dew on spiders’ webs, reminding you that life, both seen and unseen, is all around you. Trout fishing as the sun peeps over the horizon in Dullstroom, so cold that the water droplets freeze on your line…

The colours of this land are not subtle either. The blood red of the coral tree, the green metallic glint of sunbirds, the striped black and white hide of the zebra, or sapphire blue of a kingfisher. The miles and miles of yellow and orange daisies in Namaqualand in September, or pink and white swathes of cosmos along the roads in April. The lilac and turquoise of the roller, the tawny hide of a lion or the emerald green of a little dung beetle that makes its appearance in the summer months. From the golden dunes of the Namib to an unimaginable number of greens in the Knysna Forest. All vivid and arresting.

Talk to me of Morrungulo or Tsodilo Hills, the great Drakensberg, Platteland dorps and the great Karoo. The warmth of Sodwana Bay or the icy kelp forests of the Atlantic Ocean. Of wine farms and fynbos in the Cape, to meerkats and diamonds in the north. Show me our people, in so many hues, with brightly coloured traditional costumes – and even brighter smiles.

All of this creates a frisson of excitement, passion each and every day, a vivid, immediate sense of being alive that I have found nowhere else….

These are my people. This is my land.

Because I am, at the very core of my being, a child of Africa!

-Jacqui Ikin

24/09/2020

Breaking news....

We will be back in 92 destinations with the resumption of passenger services to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Harare and Mauritius in October.

16/09/2020

Roll on 01 October 2020...

16/09/2020

South Africa’s borders reopen on 01 October 2020! More details to follow. Enquiries to: [email protected]

15/09/2020

So pleased to have attended the official opening of the fabulous Knysna Zipline!! Congratulations to SA Forest Adventures for this spectacular activity!!

18/08/2020

A cold day in George - Western Cape! Snow- capped mountains present a picturesque view of this stunning area! Local travel is open South Africa. Contact us for an array of Special Offers and great discounts...

04/08/2020

All of us in South Africa are preparing to welcome International visitors to our home... surely you can’t resist this little chap! Contact us now to arrange your welcoming party!

03/08/2020

Another Sporting Icon promotes Southern Africa. Thank you Kevin Pietersen...

17/07/2020

Tamrich would like to take the time to remind you all of our safety protocols as we navigate COVID19. Rest assured we have you covered...

Special thanks for the picture goes to: Home Run RE*****ON

07/07/2020

CAPE TOWN - SOUTH AFRICA: Brody the pooch who was rescued from DARG (Domestic Animal Rescue Group) and his best pal Tim are eagerly awaiting the return of our International visitors. Book a trip with Brody and Tim and see Cape Town from a different angle. Who’s in?

03/07/2020

BREAKING NEWS: South Africa’s first International leisure traveler lands in Mossel Bay on Friday 26 June 2020!!

“Ellie” the elephant seal popped ashore during his migration. He took the time to rest and recuperate before taking to the sea again and heading to the Antarctic.




Thanks to S.M.A.R.T for the photos taken by their volunteers.