South Africa cycling adventure, tailor made

Planet

Our ethical South African Cycling Adventure has been carefully designed to minimize environmental impact and maximize benefits to local people in a meaningful way.
All cycling routes on this trip take place on public roads or on specially allocated off-road cycling tracks on private land (for which a maintenance and conservation fee is paid). In keeping with our conservation policy, we do not cycle on land that isn't maintained for cycling or go off tar on land that forms part of national park land.
All the accommodation on this trip is fully accredited by Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa. This international accrediting body requires establishments to go through a rigorous 12-month audit of every aspect of their business cycle, including water and waste management and ethical procurement of supplies. As such, you can be assured that waste and water is managed to the highest international standards and supplies such as food and linen are ethically sourced from local companies.
All waste created during the journey itself (water bottles, food packaging, bicycle tubes and bombs) are all collected in the van and recycled responsibly).

People

Our ethical South African Cycling Adventure has been carefully designed to minimize environmental impact and maximize benefits to local people in a meaningful way.

Your driver and vehicle guide on this trip is Chris Hannival who is a self-employed qualified and registered tour guide and driver. He grew up in apartheid-era South Africa in District Six, an area which was razed by the government and all the families forcibly removed to desolate locations outside the city. Despite this difficult start, Chris has built up his company to be the sole transport supplier to our travel planning company and receives rave reviews from his clients.
All the accommodation on this trip is fully accredited by Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa. This international accrediting body requires establishments to go through a rigorous 12-month audit of every aspect of their business cycle including HR policy. As such, you can be assured that all staff at your accommodation venues are paid a decent, living wage (not a minimum wage) and hold detailed, negotiated contracts in line with international best practice.
The bikes on this trip are supplied by two small independent companies based in the southern suburbs of Cape Town; they service and maintain their own bicycles using local staff who are paid a living wage too. Both suppliers have an on-going relationship with local development cycling initiatives where older bikes and parts are upcycled into the development community. We encourage our cycling guests to bring cycling items to donate (see more on this below).

OUR OPERATIONAL POLICY
We are a small and highly personalised private travel planning company: as such, we never build or conduct the same journey twice. Thus whilst this cycling journey comes with an itinerary, this is entirely open to changes. We can include rest days, ethical wildlife encounters, more or less cycling, wine tasting, ethical tours of particular areas of interest (architecture, flora, history, public art) and several other modifications. All our journeys are private and built exclusively for you.

OUR PROCUREMENT POLICY
We make use of small, owner-managed companies such as ourselves for our clients’ needs that are based locally, employ at senior level or are directed / owned by previously disadvantaged individuals (PDIs). We also personally engage with these companies on an annual basis to establish where and how the communities they visit have been supported by their business.