The Maasai Mara Game Reserves
East Africa, KenyaWith its varied and comely landscapes and its famously plentiful wildlife, the Maasai Mara epitomizes all that draws us so eagerly to Africa.
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
Southern Africa, ZambiaAstounding 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.
Hwange National Park
Southern Africa, ZimbabweA classic safari experience in Zimbabwe’s premier, and resolutely protected, wildlife showcase.
Ulusaba Private Game Reserve
Southern Africa, South AfricaSir 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.
Lewa Conservancy
East Africa, KenyaOne 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.
Lake Turkana
East Africa, KenyaExploring the land where Humankind was born with the First Family of Paleoanthropology
The Maasai Mara Game Reserves
East Africa, KenyaWith its varied and comely landscapes and its famously plentiful wildlife, the Maasai Mara epitomizes all that draws us so eagerly to Africa.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
East Africa, TanzaniaAn earthly masterpiece, something of a miracle, the Ngorongoro Crater is thronged by enrapturing African beasts, protected and blessed by nature.
Serengeti National Park
East Africa, TanzaniaWhen we think of Africa, many of us–old Africa hands and armchair dreamers alike–think of the Serengeti. For excellent, accurate reasons.
The Laikipia Plateau
East Africa, KenyaThe lofty Laikipia Plateau combines vast sceneries, abundant and fascinating wildlife, and unfailingly gracious people. In two words: Classic Africa.
Amboseli National Park
East Africa, KenyaAmboseli’s animals are legendary, its situation beneath Mount Kilimanjaro is sublime, and its lodges and camps are extraordinarily hospitable and reposeful.
Samburu National Reserve
East Africa, KenyaForced to choose one beautiful, animal- and people-blessed place for a first introduction to Africa, the Samburu would come immediately to our minds.
Tarangire National Park
East Africa, TanzaniaTarangire 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.
The Chyulu Hills
East Africa, KenyaAmbling 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 National Park
East Africa, TanzaniaLake 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
East Africa, KenyaMeru National Park, in the shadow of regal Mount Kenya, is sublimely peaceful, less-visited, and graced with the full panoply of African wildlife.
Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha
East Africa, KenyaThese two flamingo-haven rift lakes bear witness to Africa’s slow geologic upheavals–and to the continent’s flair for large, heart-pumping loveliness.
Mount Kenya
East Africa, KenyaKenya takes its name, and thousands of years of inspiration, from lordly Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest, but most spectacular peak.
Zanzibar
East Africa, TanzaniaZanzibar, the legendary Spice Island entrepôt, politely lures us with its white sand beaches, quietly jazzy resorts, and its historic Stone Town.
Nairobi
East Africa, KenyaNairobi 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.
Mahale Mountains National Park
East Africa, TanzaniaThe world’s largest population of chimpanzees, in foothill forests that rise from the greatest of the Great Rift lakes.
Selous and Ruaha Game Reserves
East Africa, TanzaniaAn 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.
Mount Kilimanjaro
East Africa, TanzaniaA compelling icon, bursting with regal personality, Africa’s highest peak is the colossal backdrop for many Micato safaris.
Kigali
East Africa, RwandaRwanda’s capital city “pulses with African charm,” says the New York Times…and us.
Parc Nacional des Volcans
East Africa, RwandaThe 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.
Victoria Falls
Southern Africa, Zimbabwe and ZambiaAfter 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
Southern Africa, South AfricaCape Town’s jazzy waterfront and delightful food and art scene dazzle us pre-safari. There are many reasons why we love it here.
Tswalu Game Reserve
Southern Africa, South AfricaOnly 30 guests at a time experience Tswalu, a vast private reserve owned and operated by one of South Africa’s great families.
Madikwe Game Reserve
Southern Africa, South AfricaA revitalized gameland of classic savannahs and bushveld, home to the Big Five.
The Okavango Delta
Southern Africa, BotswanaThat the Okavango Delta is a stand-alone natural phenomenon is a given. Luckily for us, it’s surpassingly beautiful, animal-rich, and deeply reposeful.
Moremi Game Reserve
Southern Africa, BotswanaThe Moremi Game Reserve combines the watery wonders of the Okavango Delta with game-rich, splendorously pure African savannah.
Savuti and Chobe National Park
Southern Africa, BotswanaChobe 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.
Linyanti Floodplains
Southern Africa, BotswanaThe Okavango Delta’s Linyati marshlands showcase the Okavango’s natural charisma: animals living freely, nature at its most serenely exciting, birds whirling and diving.
Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and the Cape Winelands
Southern Africa, South AfricaQuite aside from its stellar vintages, the Cape Winelands is surely the most grandly beautiful of the world’s wine producing regions.
The Cape Floristic Region
Southern Africa, South AfricaYou don’t have to be a botanist to be blown away by the Cape Floristic Region’s magically fascinating, world-unique flora.
KwaZulu-Natal
Southern Africa, South AfricaThe Garden Province is a particularly comely example of South Africa’s spectacular variety.
Kalahari Desert
Southern Africa, BotswanaOne of the world’s great deserts, surprisingly rich in wildlife and remote mystique, and, right in the middle, the “miraculous” Okavango Delta.
The Makgadikgadi Pans
Southern Africa, BotswanaBotswana’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.
The Eastern Cape
Southern Africa, South AfricaFamed for its beautiful Garden Route, the Eastern Cape abounds with lush scenery, rain forests, epic surfing, and South Africa’s only ski resort.
The Western Cape
Southern Africa, South AfricaThe bright and beautiful lights of Cape Town and the Western Cape’s marvellously varietal Winelands, seaside villages, and the rocky Cape Peninsula.
Sossusvlei and The Namib Desert
Southern Africa, NamibiaThe Namib Desert’s elegantly shaped dunes are the world’s highest, rising like sandy tsunamis over stark, thought-provoking landscapes, under deep cerulean skies.
Skeleton Coast and Kaokoveld
Southern Africa, NamibiaSupremely desolate, the Skeleton Coast reveals astonishing details, large and small: towering dunes, desert animals, and an endlessly theatrical meeting of land and water.
Etosha National Park
Southern Africa, NamibiaFans of the faraway delight in Etosha, whose vast salt plain and the animals who make their living on it are fascinatingly unusual.
Swakopmund and Walvis Bay
Southern Africa, NamibiaAdmired for its homey charm, Swakopmund is Namibia’s gateway to desert and sea adventuring and whale watching at nearby Walvis Bay.
Windhoek
Southern Africa, NamibiaMile-high Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, provides a lovely, restful prelude to a safari into Namibia’s otherworldly desert landscapes.
Kruger National Park and Sabi Sand Game Reserve
Southern Africa, South AfricaKruger 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.