Only a few months ago, I celebrated my 11th anniversary as official tour operator. I remember really well, how I was leading our very first guests across the Visayas in the Philippines, back in February 2014. Prior to that, I had already guided some other groups, basically “training” in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013.

However, we started to officially organize bespoke tours in 2013/2014. About 11 years later, we have conducted more than 1000 tours and were able to accommodate about 2500 guests from all over the world. Our team has grown since, and in peak times, we had about 20 team members.

2 years of hibernation during Covid

Of course, also we were hugely affected by the pandemic in 2020, 2021, and 2022. We basically had to close our business for almost two years, and we were only able to “survive” because we had our sister company Kapwa Marketing. Until now, the companies compliment each other really well, and many team members are active in several of our group of companies.

Co-Founder John with Marion and Charline (next to a local guide) during the very first “kapwa tour” back in February 2014.

Now, we are truly expanding into other destinations – and this has been in the making since 2019! We were working on this website before and during the pandemic but had not enough resources to develop the business. We are really excited to offer our guests new desinations with Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, and a couple more – stay tuned!