African Hoopoe Tours
Tours in Cape Town

Welcome to African Hoopoe Tours, let us handle all your tours, guides and charter business.

African Hoopoe Tours is a dynamic tour and charter company, based in Cape Town. Established by proprietor Marius du Plessis in 2007, the company has grown from strength to strength, based on a philosophy of consistently providing customers with unique and enriching experiences, while showcasing all that our beautiful country has to offer. In 1996, Marius du Plessis made a career change and started working at a medium sized tour company in Meadow Ridge, Cape Town. He qualified as a tour guide and was soon on his way to become a top guide. A year later he joined a big tour operator specialising in day tours and charters. It has always been his dream of running his own business and in 2007 he purchased his first touring vehicle, a Mercedes Vito while still guiding full time. Renting his vehicle to the movie industry he realised the potential, so in 2010 he went on his own, and what a year it would prove to be with the 2010 FIFA World Cup being hosted in Cape Town. During this period his brother, Andre du Plessis also assisted him greatly with the running of his business and eventually qualified and became a respected tourist guide. Lastly but not least, our many drivers we sub contract completes the team. You should say we are a family run business with great values ready to enrich the lives of tourist and industry partners alike. What makes it unique to tour with us is our approach to tours, as a strong emphasis is placed on the individual traveller and how we can adapt a tour to be both meaningful and adding value to the individual’s life. After completing a tour with us you would agree that no effort was saved in bringing you indeed an enriching and unique experience that will stay with you for a very long time. We teamed up with industry experts to provide action filled tours for those adrenalin junkies or the milder cycle tours. The garden route is very popular amongst travellers offering great diversity in scenery from the dry Karoo to the Afro montane forests of Knysna. We also excel in safaris both here in South Africa and in Namibia and Botswana. Our beautiful country lends itself to this activity from our open tarred roads with sweeping mountain passes to the dirt roads leading to hidden valleys waiting to be discovered. With a back up vehicle making sure you have a reliable back up but also to transport drinks and snacks to be enjoyed when we stop to re-group. So whether you like the off road experience or the Harley Davidson experience we can be of service to you. We also have liability cover on all of our vehicles and should we need to sub-hire a vehicle we ensure that the particular vehicle is also covered. Our vehicles are well maintained and undergo its yearly road worthy test ensuring safety. We only make use of guides who have a passion for the industry and share our vision of enriching lives and who wants to create something unique for our guests. This means keeping up with new trends and information. All of our guides have done a first aid course and have got a professional drivers permit. Our drivers alike are passionate about their job and also get rated after each tour so we can see where we can improve as a team.