Deluxe African Safaris and Vacations

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A luxury safari in Africa is the perfect vacation for the discerning traveller who enjoys all the comforts of life – even when they travel.  A luxury safari is the ultimate vacation experience.

What makes the perfect luxury safari vacation?

Wonderful guiding
You will have guides with wonderful personality and expert knowledge who are good communicators.  A good guide will play an important part of your experience in Africa.

Perfect Accommodation
You will stay in remote and scenic settings, close to the wildlife.  The camps and lodges are all beautifully designed, intimate and comfortable with delicious food and charming hosts.  Usually each lodge or camp takes only ten to sixteen guests.  You may find that the other guests who choose to stay at these types of places have a lot in common with you and may strike up some good friendships.  We also know dozens of exquisite hideaways in the Indian Ocean.

Unique Blend
We will choose an ideal combination of places for the wildlife, scenery and activities you are seeking for the time of year you want to travel.  We work in eleven countries and there are hundreds of camps, lodges and guides.  You may be suffering from information overload.  We know which places work well in combination and how long you should stay in each.  If you are looking for somewhere special to go for a honeymoon safari, we know just the places to go.

Meticulous organisation
We will take you from place to place quickly and reliably, often using light aircraft so you spend the maximum time enjoying your holiday.  There will be utterly reliable people to meet you and take you from one place to the next.  We take care to pace your itinerary so you are not rushed around, usually spending three days or longer at each place.  We take great care planning the details and safari lodge owners often comment to us that Africa Exclusive guests are the best informed and best prepared of their visitors.

An overview of our deluxe safari destinations

South Africa Safaris
Cape Town, the Winelands, the Garden Route followed by a few days on a luxury safari combines perfectly for a week or two in South Africa.  With world class hotels, elegant wine estates influenced by Cape Dutch architecture and superb luxury safari lodges – often with malaria free reserves, Africa Exclusive can design your dream luxury South Africa vacation.  There is also of course KwaZulu Natal which is often overlooked in favour of the Cape, yet has all the ingredients for a complete two week holiday. Whether you want to dip into a two or three day safari with almost guaranteed sightings of Big Five, or a full scale two week game viewing holiday, we will arrange your perfect luxury South Africa safari vacation.

Botswana Safari
Botswana is the ultimate safari combination of big game, stunning scenery, luxury and privacy.  This is Africa at its best.  In Botswana we use small luxury safari camps on huge private wildlife reserves.  So you will not usually see other vehicles when on safari.  At most camps you will have a luxury tented room on a big wooden deck with comfortable bed, furniture, en-suite wc/shower and a veranda with views.  Most camps in Botswana only have 8 rooms and a pool and the food is marvellous.

Kenya Safari
A spectacularly beautiful country including the great plains of the Masai Mara with its annual migration, Rift valley lakes full of water birds and semi desert regions such as Samburu and Lake Turkana. A Masai Mara safari is ideal for family safaris and is also a great honeymoon safari destination – a great combination with some relaxation on the beautiful spice island of Zanzibar.

Tanzania Safari
If you love Africa you simply have to visit northern Tanzania some time in your life.  The endless plains of the Serengeti with its annual wildebeest and zebra migration, the 8,000ft high Ngorongoro Crater and the snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro are the epitome of Africa.  Smaller national parks such as Tarangire, with its baobab trees and sparkling rivers, are also worth visiting. Southern and western Tanzania has some of the most remote and least visited game reserves in Africa yet they are also some of the most beautiful and exciting.  These are all ‘fly-in’ safari lodges where you can enjoy drives by open vehicle, walking, boating and night drives with a spotlight.

Zambia Safari
Zambia is now one of the best countries for an active safari which includes walking with an armed guide, canoeing on the Zambezi and day or night game drives by open Land Rover. The guiding is excellent and the wildlife experience is superb. Zambia has a well earned reputation for as one of the best destinations for those in search of authenticity in Africa.  The scenery is magnificent, with the huge and fast flowing Zambezi River culminating in the spectacular Victoria Falls.

Namibia Safari
Namibia is one of the world’s most fascinating and beautiful desert regions.  A holiday here will take you to the towering apricot coloured sand dunes at Sossusvlei, the unique Etosha saltpan with its abundant wildlife, the mountainous deserts of Damarland with their desert adapted elephant and rhinoceros, and the hauntingly beautiful Skeleton Coast.

Uganda and Rwanda Safari
Uganda is one of the most beautiful countries with a wonderful abundance of wildlife including the amazing lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and plains game of the Queen Elizabeth National Park.  Despite this, it is one of the least visited safari countries in Africa.  Rwanda is also an ideal gorilla safari destination with 350 mountain gorillas on the forested slopes of Parc National des Volcans.

Zimbabwe Safari
Zimbabwe has Africa’s best guide training scheme with the result that you can enjoy some amazing safaris on foot, by canoe and by open vehicle with Africa’s finest wildlife guides.  Zimbabwe’s scenery includes the great open plains of Hwange, where there are over 20,000 elephant and enormous numbers of plains game, the hills and valleys of the Matusadona National Park by Lake Kariba, where you find rhinoceros, lion and antelope, and the World Heritage Site of Mana Pools by the half mile wide Zambezi River is another stunningly beautiful region.

Malawi Safari
A land of towering mountains which surround one of Africa’s great lakes, this is one of the friendliest countries in Africa. The  Nyika Plateau which rises to over 8,000ft can provide breathtaking walking and horseback safaris, while Lake Malawi itself has several high quality beach hotels, some set off little islands, where you can enjoy snorkelling, diving, sailing and waterskiing, providing a pleasant few days break after a safari in Zambia perhaps.  At the southern tip of Lake Malawi are the Liwonde wetlands, in some ways resembling the Okavango Delta and from Mvuu Safari Camp you can enjoy boating, walks and game drives by open vehicle, seeing elephant, rhinoceros and antelope, and over 350 species of beautiful birds.

Egypt
To visit Egypt is to go 4,000 years back in time when an astonishingly advanced civilisation constructed the giant pyramids, temples and immense palaces.  The greatest attractions are located either side of the Nile in Cairo, Aswan and Luxor, and Africa Exclusive will construct the perfect itinerary to suit the pace you want to travel and the amount of sight seeing you want to include.

Indian Ocean Islands
You may like to link your safari with a few days self indulgent relaxation on some idyllic Indian Ocean island.  Africa Exclusive can arrange for you to stay in five star luxury in a superb Mauritian hotel like The Residence, the Oberoi or the Banyan Tree in the Seychelles. The spice island of Zanzibar is perfect for honeymoons and some of the world’s best diving can be experienced in the unspoilt oceans of Mozambique.
It is vital to obtain expert advice when planning a luxury safari vacation in Africa – give us a call, even if you are in the initial stages of planning your vacation, we would be delighted to talk to you and design your own customized African adventure.

A Luxury safari vacation is between $7,000 to $10,000 per person fully inclusive. Vacations to South Africa are generally cheaper.