All the plush toys and cartoons and ads and documentaries, all our lifetime of being second-handedly surrounded by Africa’s animals hasn’t prepared us for the real thing.
The first sight of elephants pacing with monarchical confidence across the morning savannah—as if they had an appointment at the end of the world, as Isak Dineson wrote.
Hearing a lion’s roar at twilight and the next day seeing that same superbeast lying on its back atop a big rock, fluffy belly to the warming sun.
A pack of warthogs scurrying across a forest glen, tails alertly up…hippos gaily galumphing in a jungly river…giraffes floating across golden plains, as Ms. Dinesen said, “like gigantic, long-stemmed flowers slowly advancing.”
There is something life-enhancingly joyous about getting close to these and all of Africa’s iconic animals, like an amazing but fuzzy dream, suddenly come to life in tight, mesmerizing, hypertechnicolor focus.
We’ll never look at those plush toys, those film clips, those ads and artistic but inescapably one-dimensional pictures the same way again.
From fizzy Cape Town to East Africa’s legendary game parks, this wide-ranging safari highlights the best of two distinctive and delightfully unique regions.
17 days from $24,950 per person Explore Southern Africa: South Africa, Zambia and East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania
Botswana’s astonishing contrasts—winding waterways, animal-rich savannahs, immense floodplains—plus the heart-stoppingly colossal cascades of Victoria Falls.
12 days from $17,300 per person Explore Southern Africa: South Africa, Botswana and Zambia
East Africa’s legendary savannahs: Amboseli, Maasai Mara, and the Serengeti, combined with many of its most magnificent resorts. An unabashedly indulgent, quintessential safari experience.
15 Days from $22,450 per person Explore East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania
A classic safari from Kenya’s dramatic Samburu Reserve and the fabled Maasai Mara-Serengeti to Tanzania’s epic Ngorongoro Crater and Hemingway’s beloved Lake Manyara.
14 Days from $18,100 per person Explore East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania
Leisurely two-night stays in Amboseli, Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti, and the Maasai Mara—with five exhilarating flights to expedite travel—make this comprehensive African Safari one of our most popular.
16 days from $17,000 per person Explore East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania
An exhilarating, luxurious safari to three of the planet’s richest animal kingdoms: the Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park, and the Serengeti.
10 Days from $11,350 per person Explore East Africa: Tanzania
East Africa’s most renowned game-viewing areas: Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater and the vast Serengeti and Kenya’s Maasai Mara, in a compact itinerary of less than two weeks.
12 Days from $13,200 per person Explore East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania