Meet The Portfolio Team
We’re a boutique Cape Town-based travel company that specialises in African trips and direct accommodation bookings in Southern and East Africa & the Indian Ocean Islands. With the support of our experienced team, you can book any of our handpicked accommodations directly or we can plan your entire African trip from start to finish.
Together our small, dedicated team has been offering the very best African travel experiences for over 40 years. We have visited each accommodation we list and we have done the itineraries that we offer ourselves. We’re local and we know what’s lekker!
Meet the passionate people behind the Portfolio brand.
“My most memorable travel experience was as a 21 year-old on mokoros in the Okavango Delta, four of us camping wild next to camp fires as protection from the wild animals. Closely followed by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with my soon-to-be wife. My next dream trip is a few nights in a game lodge in the Serengeti, followed by a week on the Quirimba Islands in Mozambique.”
“My most memorable travel experience is visiting Likoma Island in Lake Malawi; walking through the villages, meeting the friendly locals and seeing the amazing cathedral in this remote part of Africa before heading back to our luxury lodge, Kaya Mawa. For my next trip I’d pick Mombo Camp & Trails Camp, probably the best game viewing in Africa, combined with North Island in the Seychelles for the ultimate exclusive beach chillout – and I would take all my friends!”
“It’s a standout for everyone, but Vic Falls was a huge highlight for me as teenager. It was the first time I had an inkling of my place in this vast, wonderful world of ours. I also loved our rafting trip down the Orange River. For my African next adventure, I would take in the Great Migration in Kenya followed by 2 weeks sailing around the Seychelles.”
“A memory that stands out in my mind is flying from Seychelles Airport by helicopter to North Island with whale sharks swimming below. Also sleeping under the stars on a dry river bed in South Luangwa, Zambia, with just a mosquito net and mattress; hyenas surrounded the camp that night and a leopard walked right past us. My dream trip is to sail around the coast of Africa visiting remote islands.”
“My greatest travel memory is a 3-hour walking safari in the Masai Mara. Our amazing guide taught me so much about the culture and people of the Masai tribe. We stopped at a small village within the Mara and were invited in to one of the small mud built homes, a truly humbling experience. If I could go anywhere in Africa, I’d start with a horseback safari in Botswana followed by a beach holiday on North Island, Seychelles.”
“My most memorable travel experience has to be my self-drive trip through Namibia. The vastness of the desert plains, the desolate yet calming landscapes that constantly change as you make your way north – there’s a peace here that I haven’t found anywhere else. The country – and the people! – have an earthy wildness about them. If I could go anywhere in Africa, I’d pick the ultimate beach tour of Mozambique, Madagascar and the Seychelles.”