Imagine Kosher catering in the bush. Or, at the beach. We are not talking paper plates and plastic knives and forks, two-minute noodles or tuna. We are talking fresh, kosher food, prepared on the spot daily, the table prepared with real plates and silverware. The food is the best that kosher has to offer, but it is the scenery and the thrill of who, or rather what might join you at your meal that is exciting.<\/p>\n
Africa Kosher Tours<\/strong><\/p>\n Fresh, kosher food prepared in front of your eyes in top-class amenities is what gets visitors from abroad to describe the culinary experience offered by Africa Kosher Tour\u2019s host Shoshana Kaplan as a dining experience \u201cequal to anywhere LA or NY has to offer\u201d.<\/p>\n Shoshana Kaplan only does shomer Shabbos and Kosher tours, and Africa Kosher Tours specialises in 12-day tours to the Garden Route, Cape Town, and Zambia, where you can feast your eyes on the best that Africa has to offer while keeping strict religious requirements. \u201cThere is a steady call for this kind of kosher experience \u2013 be it a safari, Victoria Falls, or Cape Town. To be able to holiday and view wildlife in a five-star kosher way is an experience you can\u2019t do anywhere else except in Africa. There are many exquisite places in Hashem’s world, but this combination is unique.\u201d The reaction of the guests was so intense, says Shoshana, that one of the couples wrote a piece about visiting Zambia to the Mishpacha magazine, where she said \u201cshe has never experienced such peace and tranquillity and can\u2019t wait to come back\u201d.<\/p>\n And if you\u2019re looking for a tailor-made tour, the world is your oyster \u2013 or rather, your gefilte fish. Africa Kosher Tours have taken tours to Lithuania and Latvia, where Shoshana draws on the special connection to the place as a South African Jew to make it a memorable and life-changing event. She also offers Kosher for Pesach tours to Plettenburg Bay at the Beacon Isle Resort.<\/p>\n For more information, visit: africakoshertours.com<\/p>\n Cape Kosher<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>As a young Jewish boy born in Paris, France, I dreamed of traveling the world. I dreamed of being able to appreciate seeing G-d through the beauty of creation, the beauty of nature that can take your breath away.\u201d So off Yechiel Asseraf went to make his dreams real. But, after a few trips across Europe and America, he always encountered the same issue on his travels: finding a decent plate of kosher food. \u201cAfter my marriage to a South African woman, I decided that the best place to start solving this would be here in South Africa, which boasts phenomenal beauty and is highly recognised for its top kashrus.\u201d So, at 19 years old, Yechiel hosted 30 people for Pesach in a small hotel in Sea Point, which was so successful that the very next year he was hosting over 250 people at a bigger location in Sea Point; the Pesach experience soon growing to over 400 guests in subsequent years. Yechiel\u2019s reputation grew, and requests to organise all sorts of safaris and kosher getaways started coming in, and Cape Kosher became firmly entrenched in the kosher travel market.<\/p>\n \u201cMy Company has been running for 10 years and is continually evolving into something amazing. Branching off the success of where it originated, which was Pesach getaways, we are now creating tailor-made packages for businesses and families all across the continent.\u201d Yechiel and his team have travelled to places like Seychelles, Zanzibar, Tanzania Serengeti, Namibia Etosha, Botswana Chobe and Delta, scouting many private reserves in Southern\/Eastern Africa and its surrounding Islands to ensure a top-class and unique experience across the continent, with a full kosher menu made by Michelin star European chefs. And if this wasn\u2019t enough of a dream come true for that French boy dreaming of kosher travel, Cape Kosher will soon be offering their first Kosher Gorilla trekking trip in Rwanda, which will make Gorillas in the Mist a personal experience for Jewish travellers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been a dream come true. I have a passion for people, G-d, and His nature, and I couldn\u2019t wish for a better setting to fulfil my dream.\u201d Most people from around the world, Yechiel says, have never had much opportunity to see or experience wildlife in its \u201cauthentic kingdom\u201d or the chance to \u201creconnect to our roots and become one with nature\u201d. Being served a gourmet kosher meal while living those encounters glorifies your experience to become the ultimate getaway.<\/p>\n Besides the Pesach and Sukkot programmes, Cape Kosher has opened a new branch, Kosher Safari Tour, with new offerings of kosher packages to Zanzibar, 4×4 trips through the Namib Desert and Etosha National Park (Namibia) and the Okavango Delta in Botswana, team building or corporate events, or family simchas out in the bush. \u201cWe have mastered the art of hosting. With ten years\u2019 experience, we\u2019ve grown to understand exactly our guests needs based on their passion for food, nature, and adventure, in carefully selected locations. We look forward to host our next project over Pesach 2019 at the Krystal Beach Hotel Gordon\u2019s Bay Cape Town in the same meticulous manner. Our kosher experiences are tried and tested on the full spectrum, from mass catering on large functions to very fine dining. And all of this has made us the leading kosher event coordinators in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n For more information, email: info@koshersafaritours.co.za<\/p>\n South Africa Guided Tours<\/strong><\/p>\n When you love travelling and going around the country seeing its sights and enjoy cooking good, kosher food and time spent with family and friends so much that they implore you to make a business out of it, you almost can\u2019t refuse. And this is how Avi Cohen, who loves cooking up a storm, especially in exotic locations locally and abroad, turned his two favourite pastimes \u2013 cooking and traveling \u2013 into a travel and tour company specialising in kosher travel. But what makes South Africa Guided Tours special is that it takes a close look at just what the customer wants to get out of the experience and tailor makes a trip dedicated to meeting those needs, with a committed guide to help you find those small details that are often missed, in a host of different languages to suit foreign visitors. Focusing on trips across the breadth of \u201cour magnificent country\u201d, says Avi, including mountains, rivers, the sea, and the bush, South Africa Guided Tours opens up every part of it to kosher travellers, with its mobile kosher kitchen that supplies unlimited food to the guests, \u201cgiving them a uniquely African kosher culinary experience and making them feel at home at the same time\u201d.<\/p>\n But they don\u2019t just target overseas visitors; they also offer a range of bespoke trips for every occasion, including honeymoons, bar or bat mitzvah weekends, kosher for Pesach trips, summer or winter camps, and student trips, as well as trips for families looking for adventure. Their guides, chefs, and transport team are friendly, professional, and constantly in touch with Avi to ensure high standards are maintained throughout the trip. \u201cWe make it our business to know what our customers want and to give it to them, listening to their budgets, offering advice on where to go and stay, and showing them all our unique country has to offer.<\/p>\n