Our Concept

What we understand by the term “Tailor-Made Tours”

Drawing on our strong local knowledge, we prefer to select smaller lodges, guesthouses and Bed & Breakfast properties that are run by their owners. Reduced costs, high quality, genuine hospitality and the owner’s willingness to help and give advice are determining factors in our choice of accommodation for our clients.

We like to arrange your itinerary so that you do not have to stay at a new accommodation each night. Staying at one place for two nights or more will give you the opportunity to travel at leisure. Also, you will be able to gain better insight into the particular area, as you will have enough time to take full day excursions.

We recommend allowing at least three weeks for holidays in Europe that include more than one country. If less time is available we suggest that you focus on one region or visit only selected regions in two countries. This will enable you to travel at leisure and save you from spending most of your holiday inside your vehicle. In our experience less time on the road is usually more enjoyable.

Especially during high season, many of the small  and personally hosted accommodation properties are fully booked several weeks in advance. Arranging an itinerary with us prior to travel will give you the peace of mind of knowing where you are going and where you will be staying. This will save you a lot of trouble while travelling and give you more time to focus on planning your daily activities and enjoing your holiday.

We arrange the itineraries according to your wishes. All our tours are tailor-made and personalised to suit your needs. We are glad to make any desired changes to the proposed itineraries. We can change the routes, the number of persons travelling, the time schedule, the standard of accommodation or the type of vehicle. The tour may commence on any date.

What we do not offer: “We did it all in two weeks”

We are a private limited company (Ltd.) located near Cologne, Germany, with two branch offices – one in South Africa and one in New Zealand. We began as a special tour operator for South Africa in 1998 but soon extended our programme to other countries, encouraged by the positive feedback from our clients. "Umfulana" means "stream" or "little river" in Zulu and is the literal translation of the German surname of one of the company's directors, Martin Bach, who began designing and selling tailor-made, personalised, self-drive itineraries while living in South Africa."