From the rare natural wonders of the Cape Floristic Region (the smallest of the world’s six recognized floristic kingdoms, or phytochorions) to the wineries and elegant Old Dutch-style hostelries of the Cape Winelands, from the urban pizazz of Cape Town to the fabulously but imaginatively luxurious lodges of the private, serene, wildlife-rich Sabi Sands and Singita concessions on the border of famed Kruger National Park, South Africa lives up to its unofficial motto, A World in One Country.
Micato has deep roots in South Africa, and our private Bespoke Safaris and guaranteed departure, small group Classic Safaris are creatively and expertly designed to show off the country’s grand diversity (which is nowhere better exampled than in Cape Town, one of our favourite places in Africa. Graced by what David Livingstone called a “beautiful table cloth of fleecy clouds” over monumental Table Mountain, Cape Town is still, as Sir Francis Drake described it in 1580, “the most stately thing and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.”
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 $29,350 per person Explore Southern Africa: South Africa, Zambia and East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania
From the mesmerizing, miraculous Okavango Delta to mammoth Victoria Falls and the classic gamelands and safari experience of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.
14 Days from $23,600 per person Explore Southern Africa: Botswana and Zimbabwe
Botswana’s astonishing contrasts—winding waterways, animal-rich savannahs, immense floodplains—plus the heart-stoppingly colossal cascades of Victoria Falls.
12 days from $19,700 per person Explore Southern Africa: South Africa, Botswana and Zambia
Beginning with Namibia’s vast and gorgeous wilderness, then to the urban delights of Cape Town and its salubrious Winelands, ending with superb game viewing in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve.
15 Days from $23,300 per person Explore Southern Africa: Namibia and South Africa
Hand-crafting Custom Safaris is something we do as well as—no, better than anyone in the world.
Explore Anywhere Micato Travels
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.