Journeys
Souvenir Journeys is a niche, boutique travel operator offering luxury immersive travel experiences in unique destinations such as India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa.
Narratives
Truly independent travel journalism, including commissioned assignments and luxury travel guides.
David Allardice
Forever passionate about travel, David grew up in Durban on the sub-tropical East coast of South Africa, where the warm Indian ocean current mingles with Zulu, Indian, British and colonial influences. A childhood of soccer, surfing and rugby matches, and climbing mahogany, mango and lychee trees, he feels equally at home in an Indian bazaar as he does in the African bush. David qualified and trained as a lawyer but his true love was history which endured and easily won out. After an exciting few years in the early Dotcom sector in London, David took a year long backpacking trip through Asia and consolidated his love for the East, returning home to further his career in media and technology and renewable energy start-ups. From a burning desire to be out on the road and immersed in the other, he started writing. An accomplished traveller and travel writer, he has written for the leading US Travel Guide Frommers, for both their Southern African and India editions, and has been published in the New York Times Travel and on Frommers.com (whcih was bought by Google) . He is a regular feature travel writer for South Africa’s leading monthly publications, including Conde Nast and the award-winning Wanted, part of the business daily Business Day, and has written for a number of other online and print publications. David’s mission is to share with you the embracing diversity of select hard-to-travel-to destinations, cultures, history, architecture in Asia and Africa. His focus is on itineraries that impart distinctive cultural, community, historic or environmental interest and experiences.
