Swazi Trails
Swazi Trails is Swaziland's leading tour and adventure operator. The company is a fully licensed and insured tour operator established in 1987. Swazi Trails offer a wide selection of half and full day tours and activities, which encompass cultural, scenic, adventure and wildlife highlights in Swaziland. Services are available 365 days a year, with guaranteed departures for minimum of two persons on most Swazi Trails operated tours and activities. Prior reservation is required, however capacity generally exists to accommodate most short notice departures.
As a ground handler in Swaziland, Swazi Trails have extensive experience in transport, reservations facilitation and itinerary management. Swazi Trails have experience in location management in Swaziland and the company's indepth experience of the Swaziland destination is an invaluable asset to film productions.
For conference and incentive groups in Swaziland, Swazi Trails is a one-stop shop for either specific ground-handling or support services, or alternatively full itinerary management. Swazi Trails are also dynamic team-building specialists and have a long list of satisfied clients in Swaziland.
Fulfilling the role of an incoming tour operator for Swaziland, Swazi Trails offer multi-day itineraries, both within the Kingdom as well as linked to Mozambique, Kruger National Park and other neighbouring areas such as Mpumalanga and Kwazula-Natal, otherwise known as Zululand.
Swazi Trails tours and adventure activities are guided in English by informative local Swazi guides. With prior notice and at an additional cost, other foreign language-speaking guides can be sourced. Swazi Trails specifically supply indigenous Swazi nationals as guides and takes pride in the quality and professionalism of its staff.
Swazi Trails use a variety of tour vehicles for transport and tour purposes. The standard tour vehicle is a 9-seater air-conditioned Hyundai H1. On occasions we make use of smaller sedan vehicles for individual departures. Our drivers have a minimum of 3 years driving experience and are in possession of Professional Driving Permits (PDP's) which are reviewed on an annual basis. Swazi Trails carry extensive passenger liability cover on all its vehicles.
This online booking site carries many of the most popular Swazi Trails tours and adventure activities, however if you do not find what you are looking for please contact Swazi Trails directly at tours@swazitrails.co.sz
For an video overview of Swazi Trails activities take a look at our video pages .
Caring for destination
Main area of focus in Caring for the Destination:
The main areas of focus are development of local skills and creation of employment opportunities.
Detailed description of the Caring for the Destination Initiative:
Swazi Trails has pioneered the concept of local step-on guides in Swaziland. Historically, Swaziland has been traversed by guides from neighbouring South Africa, which has left the local guiding industry severely under-developed. In early 2001, Swazi Trails began actively training and promoting the availability of local guides as an alternative to foreign guides.
Today, a number of South African and international tour operators regularly make use of Swazi guides for their scheduled itineraries, the most committed of these being French operator Akilanga.
Many independent travellers have also now begun to make use of a local guide to assist them in getting the most out of their time in Swaziland.
Swazi Trails is proud to be associated with previous employee Mandla Masuku who as an early product of efforts to simulate guide supply services has now established his own business in this sphere. Swazi Trails regularly sub-contract guides from this enterprise. Masuku was the overall winner of the 2008 Technoserve Tourism Business Plan competition.
The pick-up spot is determined at the time of booking. Please add this as a "special request" to your booking.
It is only necessary to book a single person for the guide, as the guide hire rate is the same regardless of whether guiding for one person or for a coach load of 40 persons. If you need two or more guides on two or more separate vehicles, first book one, then when on your "My booking" page add another guide service for the same day to your existing booking reference number.
| Tour | From |
| Taste of Swaziland Tour (half day) | ZAR 865 |
| Hlane Royal National Park Safari | ZAR 2,045 |
| Southern Highlights Tour | ZAR 865 |
| Swaziland Highlights Tour | ZAR 2,015 |
| Swazi Local Host guide service (half day) | ZAR 560 |
| Swazi Cultural Experience | ZAR 1,150 |
| Northern Highlights Tour | ZAR 1,265 |
| Taste of Swaziland Tour (full day) | ZAR 1,335 |
| Safari Mkhaya Game Reserve | ZAR 1,845 |
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