From the earth-trembling vibrations of ten thousand wildebeest to the haunting call of a single lion roaring in the distant dawn, Africa touches your soul like no other place on earth. It is the genesis of all life and where travellers often tell us that their own life was transformed. We have detailed, activity and leisure-filled itineraries at the ready, but here are quick looks at some of Africa’s especially magnificent destinations.
Astounding Victoria Falls is the centrepiece of this lovely UNESCO World Heritage Site, but it offers much more: river cruises on the mighty Zambezi River, and mini-safaris to view its wildlife, including rare black rhinos.
A classic safari experience in Zimbabwe’s premier, and resolutely protected, wildlife showcase.
Sir Richard Branson’ Ulusaba is a luxurious private reserve beautifully tucked inside another private reserve right next to one of the world’s iconic national parks.
One of the first and most influential members of the burgeoning Conservancy Movement, Lewa has fiercely and effectively defended African wildlife for more than two decades.
Exploring the land where Humankind was born with the First Family of Paleoanthropology
With its varied and comely landscapes and its famously plentiful wildlife, the Maasai Mara epitomizes all that draws us so eagerly to Africa.
An earthly masterpiece, something of a miracle, the Ngorongoro Crater is thronged by enrapturing African beasts, protected and blessed by nature.
When we think of Africa, many of us–old Africa hands and armchair dreamers alike–think of the Serengeti. For excellent, accurate reasons.
The lofty Laikipia Plateau combines vast sceneries, abundant and fascinating wildlife, and unfailingly gracious people. In two words: Classic Africa.
Amboseli’s animals are legendary, its situation beneath Mount Kilimanjaro is sublime, and its lodges and camps are extraordinarily hospitable and reposeful.
Forced to choose one beautiful, animal- and people-blessed place for a first introduction to Africa, the Samburu would come immediately to our minds.
Tarangire is a landscape lover’s Eden, an animal fancier’s Nirvana, and a balm for lovers of quietude in the midst of great natural exuberance.
Ambling in lush cloud forests, looking out at gargantuan Mount Kilimanjaro, enjoying African-Italian fusion cuisine, are just a few of the Chyulu Hills’enchantments.
Lake Manyara is the beautiful home of mega-throngs of flamingos, as viewers of Out of Africa will know, and want to see for themselves.
Meru National Park, in the shadow of regal Mount Kenya, is sublimely peaceful, less-visited, and graced with the full panoply of African wildlife.
These two flamingo-haven rift lakes bear witness to Africa’s slow geologic upheavals–and to the continent’s flair for large, heart-pumping loveliness.
Kenya takes its name, and thousands of years of inspiration, from lordly Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest, but most spectacular peak.
Zanzibar, the legendary Spice Island entrepôt, politely lures us with its white sand beaches, quietly jazzy resorts, and its historic Stone Town.
Nairobi is where Micato was born, and our–and our guests’–affection for the city continues to grow as it becomes ever more cosmopolitan and ambitious.
The world’s largest population of chimpanzees, in foothill forests that rise from the greatest of the Great Rift lakes.
An undisturbed playground of beauty reserved solely for the enrichment of its bountiful and truly wild wildlife, The Selous is one of Africa’s natural wonders.
A compelling icon, bursting with regal personality, Africa’s highest peak is the colossal backdrop for many Micato safaris.
Rwanda’s capital city “pulses with African charm,” says the New York Times…and us.
The lushly beautiful, compact nation of Rwanda is in turn the home of an even tinier protected patch that figures among the most beloved of wildlife admirers everywhere.
After a half-century in the safari business, we’re still astounded by Victoria Falls and our trips to the immense cascade are comprehensive and enthralling.
Cape Town’s jazzy waterfront and delightful food and art scene dazzle us pre-safari. There are many reasons why we love it here.
Only 30 guests at a time experience Tswalu, a vast private reserve owned and operated by one of South Africa’s great families.
A revitalized gameland of classic savannahs and bushveld, home to the Big Five.
That the Okavango Delta is a stand-alone natural phenomenon is a given. Luckily for us, it’s surpassingly beautiful, animal-rich, and deeply reposeful.
The Moremi Game Reserve combines the watery wonders of the Okavango Delta with game-rich, splendorously pure African savannah.
Chobe was justly the first Botswanan national park, as it’s home to one the world’s richest populations of big, little, and always enchanting wildlife.
The Okavango Delta’s Linyati marshlands showcase the Okavango’s natural charisma: animals living freely, nature at its most serenely exciting, birds whirling and diving.
Quite aside from its stellar vintages, the Cape Winelands is surely the most grandly beautiful of the world’s wine producing regions.
You don’t have to be a botanist to be blown away by the Cape Floristic Region’s magically fascinating, world-unique flora.
The Garden Province is a particularly comely example of South Africa’s spectacular variety.
One of the world’s great deserts, surprisingly rich in wildlife and remote mystique, and, right in the middle, the “miraculous” Okavango Delta.
Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans, perhaps the planet’s largest salt flats, attract connoisseurs of one-of-a-kind landscapes and the highly adapted animals who call them home.
Famed for its beautiful Garden Route, the Eastern Cape abounds with lush scenery, rain forests, epic surfing, and South Africa’s only ski resort.
The bright and beautiful lights of Cape Town and the Western Cape’s marvellously varietal Winelands, seaside villages, and the rocky Cape Peninsula.
The Namib Desert’s elegantly shaped dunes are the world’s highest, rising like sandy tsunamis over stark, thought-provoking landscapes, under deep cerulean skies.
Supremely desolate, the Skeleton Coast reveals astonishing details, large and small: towering dunes, desert animals, and an endlessly theatrical meeting of land and water.
Fans of the faraway delight in Etosha, whose vast salt plain and the animals who make their living on it are fascinatingly unusual.
Admired for its homey charm, Swakopmund is Namibia’s gateway to desert and sea adventuring and whale watching at nearby Walvis Bay.
Mile-high Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, provides a lovely, restful prelude to a safari into Namibia’s otherworldly desert landscapes.
Kruger is South Africa’s most famous and its largest park—almost 5,700 Central Parks would fit neatly into its classic, golden veldt, river-crossed, acacia-dotted African landscapes.