Our story

Born of the bush, shaped by the journey.

Gr8 Xcapes is a proudly South African travel company crafting tours across SA, Botswana, Lesotho and the wider region — slowly, locally, beautifully.

Tented camp at dusk
Why Gr8 Xcapes

Travel as a kind of homecoming.

We are guides, drivers, hosts and storytellers — a small Southern African collective with decades of combined experience between the Cape, the Kruger, the Drakensberg and the deltas of Botswana. Each itinerary begins with a conversation, not a catalogue.

We work only with partners who share our values: low-impact lodges, community-led tourism, and guides whose knowledge of the land has been earned, not learned.

12+

Years curating journeys

1,400+

Travellers welcomed home

38

Lodge & camp partners