Madagascar

Madagascar is not like anywhere else on earth. Separated from Africa for about 90 million years, it evolved its own world: more than 100 species of lemur, chameleons the size of a thumbnail, baobabs that look like they were planted upside down, and a forest of limestone blades called the tsingy. It is a country […]

DR Congo

We are not currently offering travel to eastern DR Congo. At the time of writing, Goma and Bukavu are under the control of armed groups, their airports are not operating commercial flights, Virunga National Park has closed its gorilla and Nyiragongo treks, and government travel advice, including the UK Foreign Office, is against all travel […]

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a country of big water, big herds and big stone. Victoria Falls drops over a wall more than a mile wide, Hwange holds some of the largest elephant herds in Africa, and Mana Pools lets you walk among wildlife with only a guide for company. Further south, the granite hills of Matobo and […]

Zambia

Zambia is the home of the walking safari, and it is still one of the best places in Africa to leave the vehicle behind. Its parks are big, wild and quiet, its camps are small and its guides are among the best on the continent, so you can spend a morning with a leopard and […]

South Africa

South Africa packs more variety into one country than almost anywhere in Africa. In a single journey you can track leopards in a private Big Five reserve, walk past penguins on a Cape beach, taste wine in a valley of old Dutch estates, watch whales from a cliff path and climb a flat-topped mountain above […]

Namibia

Namibia is a country of space and silence: red dunes that rise 300 metres, a salt pan you can see from orbit, a coast of fog and shipwrecks, and some of the darkest skies on earth. It is one of the least crowded countries in Africa, and one of the easiest to travel, with good […]

Botswana

Botswana is Africa at its wildest and quietest. Its safari philosophy is simple: keep the camps small, keep the visitor numbers low, and let the wilderness do the rest. The result is a country where you can spend a morning with elephants and not see another vehicle. The Okavango Delta is the star, a flood […]

Rwanda

Rwanda is small enough to cross in a day and green almost everywhere you look. Terraced hills roll away in every direction, the roads are good and the towns are tidy, which makes it one of the easiest countries in Africa to travel well. In a single week you can trek mountain gorillas in the […]

Uganda

Uganda packs mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, tree-climbing lions and the source of the Nile into a country the size of Britain. It is greener and wilder than most people expect, and it rewards travellers who want their safari to feel personal rather than packaged. The west is where most journeys unfold: the rainforests of Bwindi and […]

Tanzania

Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Zanzibar

Kenya

The classic safari country