Southern Africa
Designed with intention
Lumé Travel & Retreats (pronounced Loo-MAY) creates bespoke journeys across South Africa, Botswana and Victoria Falls — for the travel businesses who bring their clients here, and for travellers seeking their own transformation.
We believe all meaningful travel changes something in you. So whether we're building a retreat for your community, a client itinerary for your agency, or a personal journey for you, every trip we design carries the same intention: rest, connection, discovery, or renewal — woven into the land itself.
Introducing the Four Pillars
However your journey is shaped, it draws from four threads — often woven together.
Women's Travel
Group and solo journeys designed around connection, confidence and shared experience.
Wellness & Retreats
Restoration, breathwork, movement, stillness and space to reconnect — the foundation Lumé was built on.
Experiential Travel
Winelands cellar tours, farm-to-table dining, local cuisine, cultural immersion and culinary discovery.
Adventure Travel
Safari, hiking, ocean activities, nature reserves, birdwatching and photography — awe, found outdoors.
For Trade Partners
Bringing your clients to Southern Africa? We handle the ground.
Lumé partners with retreat planners, travel agents and boutique travel companies who want to offer their clients an extraordinary Southern Africa experience — without becoming Southern Africa experts themselves.
From supplier relationships and logistics to itinerary design and on-the-ground execution, we do the work behind a seamless journey, so you can focus on your clients and your brand.
Retreat Planners — bring your retreat concept; we design and execute the Southern African journey around it, including our signature reflection journal add-on.
Travel Agents & Boutique Companies — resell or co-sell Lumé-designed itineraries across wellness, women's, experiential and adventure travel, under your own brand.
For Travellers
Your own journey, designed around you
Travelling solo, with a partner, friends or family — every Lumé journey is shaped around how you want to feel and what you need from this chapter.
The Lumé Reflection Journal
A personalised companion for your journey — coaching exercises, space to reflect, and insight into how each part of your trip supports your healing, restoration or transformation. Available as an add-on across our journeys and retreats.
Where We Take You...
Your journey might begin in Cape Town, where mountain meets ocean and the city's energy gives way to space for reflection — a sunrise hike, a quiet moment by the sea, the first breath of what's to come. From there, the road opens onto the Garden Route, where coastal cliffs, hidden lagoons and indigenous forests slow your pace, inviting you deeper into nature with every kilometre. Further inland, the wilderness takes over entirely on safari, where days unfold around the rhythm of the bush — game drives at dawn and dusk, silence between sightings, and the quiet awe of encountering Africa's wildlife on its own terms. From there, the journey can carry you north to the thunder of Victoria Falls, where power and beauty meet in equal measure, or into the stillness of Botswana's Okavango Delta, gliding by mokoro across ancient waterways under vast open skies. Each place builds on the last — a journey that moves from energy, to nature, to wilderness, to awe.
Ready to design something intentional?
Whether you're a retreat planner, travel agent, or planning your own journey — let's talk.
What People Say
I had a great executive coaching session with Leigh to discuss my goals and vision for the long term and short term. She was very encouraging and confident and got me thinking about short term actions to deliver long term success. I felt that I could have an open and honest conversation and felt that she steered me in the right direction to feel that I was capable and had the traits to get to my end goal.
Executive Coaching Client - Female Corporate Execurive, Durban South Africa
I’m currently growing a business I’m really passionate about, and my session with Leigh was incredibly valuable. She created a supportive & comfortable space while still keeping things focused & productive. The session felt structured but not rigid. What I appreciated most was how she guided me with thoughtful questions rather than just giving answers. The session really helped me reflect and find clarity on areas I’d been stuck on and brought my blind spots into the open. I left feeling motivated, inspired, and excited to put ideas into action. She has a great balance of being warm and approachable while still holding you accountable in a constructive way. I’d definitely recommend her to anyone looking for genuine, insightful business coaching.
Business Coaching Client - Female Entrepreneur, Durban South Africa
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Life & Enneagram Coaching Client - Durban, South Africa
I found the sessions to be very helpful in trying to understand my fears and personality better, and finally to formulate better strategies for how to manage my life. Her questions really helped me open up and realise more aspects of my natural abilities. Also I am now more able to stop and breathe... and reflect before reacting. This has helped with my anxiety too. All in all these sessions would really help everyone in today's stressful world where one is overwhelmed with so much negative propaganda everywhere.