Where we go
Trips planned by people who live here
Two sentences on your approach. What you refuse to do is more memorable than what you promise.
Destinations
Every country we cover
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Kenya
The easiest first safari in Africa, with an Indian Ocean coast to finish on.
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Tanzania
The biggest wildlife country in the region, with an Indian Ocean island attached to the end of it.
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Uganda
The country you come to for gorillas and chimpanzees, with decent savannah game alongside.
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Rwanda
A small, well-run country where gorillas are a two-hour drive from the airport.
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Ethiopia
Highland churches, extreme landscapes and endemic wildlife — a travel country, not a safari country.
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Morocco
Old walled cities, a 4,000-metre mountain range and real Sahara dunes, all within a few hours’ drive of each other.
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Egypt
The densest concentration of ancient monuments anywhere, strung along one river, plus some of the best diving in the world on a…
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Tunisia
Roman ruins you can walk around without a queue, a Mediterranean coast, and a stretch of real Sahara, all in a country…
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Mauritius
A lagoon-ringed volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, built for a beach week with a few good walks in it.
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Seychelles
Granite islands with the best beaches in the Indian Ocean, an expensive place to do very little, and no safari.
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Madagascar
An island the size of France where most of the plants and animals exist nowhere else, and where getting between them is…
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Namibia
Namibia is for driving: long gravel roads between dunes, canyons and a coast the Atlantic keeps cold.
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Botswana
Botswana is for water-based safari in the Okavango and elephants on the Chobe, sold as few beds at high prices with very…
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South Africa
South Africa is the one country in the region where you can self-drive a whole trip: big game, a coastal city, wine…
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is for Victoria Falls, elephants at Hwange and walking safaris on the Zambezi, with guides trained harder than almost anywhere in…
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Zambia
Zambia is for walking safaris, which started here, plus the Zambezi and the other half of Victoria Falls.
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Mozambique
Mozambique is the beach and diving end of a Southern African trip: warm Indian Ocean, Portuguese food, and 2,500 km of coastline.
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Malawi
Malawi is a small country with a very large freshwater lake and parks that have been restocked from almost empty into real…
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Ghana
The easiest first trip in West Africa: the slave-trade castles of the Gold Coast, Ashanti Kumasi, elephants at Mole, and the December…
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Senegal
Atlantic coast, the Sahel and the Senegal River, with Gorée Island and a capital that is the centre of music in francophone…
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Nigeria
Africa’s largest city and its loudest culture industry, plus a December festival season that fills every hotel room in Lagos.
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Côte d’Ivoire
A lagoon capital with serious nightlife, a colonial port town on the UNESCO list, and one of the last large blocks of…
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Cape Verde
Ten Atlantic islands 570 km off Senegal: beach resorts on two of them, volcanic hiking on two more, and the country’s music…
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The Gambia
A narrow country either side of one river: winter-sun beaches, some of the easiest birding in Africa, and the UNESCO site that…
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Benin
The Dahomey kingdom’s palaces, the embarkation port at Ouidah, the home ground of Vodun, and a stilt village on a lagoon.