Ted Weber

Topnotch Private Guiding Around Southern Africa

I offer customized itineraries and highly personalized, guided tours to suit your holiday style.

My tours are about exploring South Africa: meeting the people, understanding the issues, seeing the juxtaposition of luxury and poverty and illuminating the challenges, dreams and beauty of our Rainbow Nation.

After 24 years abroad, my wife Jenny and I returned to Cape Town where I began my new life as a tour guide, touring throughout the Southern portion of Africa. I have been a private guide for many large international companies, visiting Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland as well as the whole of South Africa.

My specialized skills and experience have enabled me to conduct very successful tours over the last nine years with people of varying ages and backgrounds. I am rather proud of all the wonderful personal comments of my previous tour groups - read them here.

My interests include fine dining and Cape wines. I lead hiking tours around Southern Africa and love the flora & fauna of the country. I am passionate about people and my hobbies are tennis, snow skiing, good cinema, theatre and I particularly love hiking in nature. I cook well and have a good sense of humor as well as patience and great organizational skills.

On overland tours I typically get locals to interact with the tourists, thus enriching their experience. I am also fascinated by the variety of artistic talents of all citizens of this country - whether they lie in music, ceramics, art or dance. I usually incorporate some of that aspect in each trip where appropriate.

I volunteer for Education Without Borders, a Canadian NGO assisting in Leadership Development at Fezeka Secondary School in Gugulethu township. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it” is the motivator for our inspirational talks for Grade Nine students there. In all of my tours, I try to portray and reveal the intricacy of this exciting ‘Rainbow Nation,’ both through my eyes and our shared experiences.

I am a registered national guide, a member of Cape Town Tourism and have the appropriate experience, certification and licenses to conduct these tours successfully. My commentaries are in English and German. I can recommend and organize accommodation, reservations, and transportation.

Most of all, I promise fun in any weather and of course, topnotch service!