For people who want home comforts in the bush.
Everything you need. Exactly where it belongs.
A big comfortable bed, your own private shower, and enough space to store everything. And you walk in, you do not climb in.
Thousands already built. Originals from 2003 still in daily use.
Trusted By Thousands Of Families. Backed By A Lifetime Warranty.
Don't just take our word for it. Real families like yours are already out there exploring the world in their AHA Transformer.
See for yourself what they have to say.
Firstly the AHA is an awesome camper, the builders have really thought this one through. Has everything you could possibly need. You can tailor your requirements and price by selecting the addons you want. Excellent quality. Go gave a look, they will give you a full demo, really only takes 15 seconds to open up.
Everything is already done when you get there.
The inside of the AHA Transformer is a single room. When you open the doors you are looking at your bedroom. A real one, with a Queen or King size mattress, at the same height as the bed you sleep in at home. You walk in upright! No crawling, ducking or acrobatics required to get to bed.
There is nothing to do when you get there. The bed is made and your bedding is as you left it. There is running water. The lights come on. Nothing needs to be set up, and nothing needs to be unpacked. The room you left is the room you see when you open the doors.
No fold-out bench, no stretcher, no inflatable mattress. One room, that's it, and it already feels like home.
The clearest skies are also the coldest ones.
It's July in Sutherland, and you are warm.
The best skies over the Karoo come in winter. That is also when it is coldest, which is why so many people who talk about going to Sutherland never quite go, or go once in December and wonder what the fuss was about.
You are not cold in an AHA. The electric blanket warms the bed before you get in, so you climb into warmth rather than rattling through the night, and it can stay on until morning if you want it to. By the time you turn in, the canvas is closed and the bed is the warmest place on the mountain.
So the two of you stay out in the dark for as long as you want to, under more stars than you thought were up there, and then you come in to a bed that is already warm.
In a tent that is a night you would have given up on by 9 o' clock. This is the night you drove there for.
A hot shower before anyone else in the campsite is up.
You slept well and you are warm. That on its own is not how camping mornings usually go.
The coffee is on. While it brews you have your shower, in a private shower, big enough for two. No walk across wet grass in a gown. No queue or sandy feet. No waiting to find out what the ablution block is like this time. Hot water at a site with facilities, and the same hot water a hundred kilometres from the nearest one.
You finish up, the coffee is ready, and the day has started properly rather than being something you work up to.
The usual 15 minutes, just somewhere very special.
The basin is inside, with a mirror above it and a light of its own so you can see what you are doing.
You brush your teeth the way you brush your teeth at home. You wash your face. You dry your hair, and straighten it if that is what you do. Nothing about those 15 minutes is different from the 15 minutes you would spend in your bathroom at home.
Then you step out into the morning looking like yourself rather than like someone who has been camping. A small thing, right up until it is the reason you would rather have stayed at home.
Every surface inside is carpet.
Floor, walls, everything inside. There is no bare panel anywhere inside an AHA, and that is the reason it feels like a room rather than the back of a bakkie.
It is warm under your feet on a winter morning. It takes the hollow ring out of the space, so rain on the roof sounds like rain rather than drumming. It takes up the condensation instead of leaving it on the floor for you to find with your feet.
And carpet holds Velcro. Your bathroom bag goes on the wall wherever you have decided the wall should hold it, and so does anything else you would rather have in reach than in a drawer. Every surface in here will hold something, and you are the one who decides which.
No jerry cans. No walking to the tap with a bucket.
You fill it at home, from the hose in the driveway, before you pull off. After that it is simply there.
Water at the basin to brush your teeth. Water for the kettle. Water to cook with and water to wash up afterwards. No jerry cans rolling around in the back, no walk to the communal tap with a bucket, and no working out who washes first in case there is not enough.
You can see at a glance how much is left, and you top up from any tap with a hose on it.
Plug it in and it just works.
There are plug points inside, and they are where you would want them rather than where they were easiest to fit. The phone charges overnight. The kettle goes on in the morning.
At a campsite with power you plug in the blue caravan plug, and the camper behaves like your kitchen at home. Anything that runs on your counter runs here.
Then there is everything else you might bring. A fan for a still night. An air cooler for the afternoons that never quite cools down. A heater for when the weather turns. An air fryer, a small oven, a coffee machine that does not depend on lighting anything. You are not learning a new way to do things because you are away from home. You are doing them the way you do them at home, just in the bush.
Everything has a place.
In 2002, Dawie Maas came back from three weeks in Botswana and Namibia having loved almost every minute of it. Almost. By day three the teaspoon, the GPS, the toothbrush and the underpants were all in the same box. Dawie did not set out to build a camper with a lot of storage. He set out to build one where everything has a place and nothing gets lost.
So the food and the pots are stored in the drawers. The clothes have their own bags. The dishwashing liquid has it's place in the kitchen, and on day 14, it is still where you would find it. You stop packing and unpacking. You stop standing at the back of the bakkie figuring out where you put something, or where you saw it the last time.
Pieter and Ceciel Olckers took their AHA through Botswana and Namibia for about a month, in a group of six vehicles. Everybody else towed a trailer. By the end of the trip the others were borrowing from them, because their own things were "packed away too far and will take too long to get hold of", or "I have it somewhere but I don't know where it is."
One evening a boy's mother wanted to make pancakes. The Olckers family even had cinnamon with them. The boy's reaction became the joke of the entire holiday:
"Jislaaik, julle het ook alles by julle."
Questions people ask before they book a demo.
When I open it, is the bed made?
Yes. Your bedding stays on the bed while you drive. The pillows go on the bed and everything closes around it. You open up at the next campsite and everything is exactly as you left it.
Is there really a proper shower in there?
There is, and it is inside, with the canvas closed around you. Not a bag hanging from a tree and not a walk to the ablution block in your gown.
Will I be warm enough in winter?
The electric blanket warms the bed before you get into it and can stay on all night. A gas heater warms the space while you are still up. Once the canvas is closed it holds the heat you have inside.
Is there enough light? What about insects?
There are more than enough lights, and they have different colours. White is bright, and is handy if you need a lot of light to find something small. The yellow (amber) and red are less bright, and do not attract insects. The unwanted ones stay outside. Insects attract frogs, and frogs attract snakes. Use the correct light for the task, and let them all stay outside.
Where does everything go on a long trip?
Drawers for the food and the pots, bags for the clothes, and a place for everything. Two people travel comfortably for 3-4 weeks at a time without packing and unpacking everything along the way.
How do I get in? I don't like climbing.
Three steps up and one step in, standing upright the whole way, with wide steps and a pole to hold. No ladder. No crawling. No asking anyone for a hand.
What happens when it rains?
The raincoat goes over the roof, and you stay dry. If the weather really turns bad, you close up and book into a lodge for the night. A closed AHA on your bakkie is just your bakkie. You park in an ordinary parking bay at any lodge or guesthouse.
Does the dust get in on the gravel roads?
No. The dust scoop creates a jumping castle effect, and the dust stays outside. Everything you have inside is safe and sound, just like you left it before you hit the road.
Is there a toilet, and where is it?
There is one if you want one. It is located (and used) inside, with everything closed around you. On a long drive you can pull over, open up, use it and be back on the road in five minutes. Opening the camper to get to the toilet only takes 15 seconds, and you can do it yourself without help.
What bedding or sheets do I buy for it?
The Transformer has 2 mattresses that fold on top of each other when you close it. The one is a double bed mattress, and the other is a 3/4 mattress. Together, they make up the bed inside the Transformer.
You'll need two fitted sheets, a double and a 3/4, one for each mattress. Everything on top of that (blanket, duvet, quilt, etc.) is Queen size.
The photos do not do it justice. Come and see it.
The AHA interior is designed to be seen in person. Marisca opens it, closes it, shows you every detail, and answers every question, on a real unit at the factory in Pretoria. No obligation, no pressure. Book an appointment for any time during business hours.
No commitment required. Marisca or Debbie will show you everything you want to see.