Activities
The best safari days are never generic.
Choose the activities that make your safari feel alive, from quiet forest treks to private sundowners.
Activities
Choose the activities that make your safari feel alive, from quiet forest treks to private sundowners.
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A hippo-and-birdlife boat ride on Lake Naivasha, followed by a guided walk on Crescent Island among giraffe, zebra and antelope, where there are no la...
A Rift Valley game drive around Lake Nakuru, a fenced rhino sanctuary, with opportunities to see rhino, Rothschild’s giraffe and waterbirds from lakes...
See endangered rhino beside one of AfricaΓÇÖs great soda lakes.
Walk the car-free lanes of Lamu Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with a local guide who explains Swahili architecture, carved doors, the old fo...
Private-concession safaris in Linyanti, where night drives and off-road tracking add to riverside viewing of elephants, predators and wild dog. Very f...
Hike Lion’s Head at sunrise, spiralling up the peak with chains and ladders near the top, for 360-degree views over Cape Town, Table Mountain and the...
A dawn hot-air balloon flight drifting over the Mara as the plains wake up, followed by a bush breakfast. Flight paths depend on the wind, so every mo...
Game drives in malaria-free Madikwe Game Reserve on the Botswana border, with no day visitors and opportunities to see wild dog alongside the Big Five...
Trek from the white beaches of Lake Tanganyika into the Mahale Mountains to find one of Africa’s largest habituated chimpanzee communities, in a truly...
Sit quietly beside a habituated wild meerkat colony at dawn on the Makgadikgadi grasslands as they emerge, sunbathe and forage around you. The meerkat...
Guided quad-bike excursions across the vast white salt pans of the Makgadikgadi in the dry season, reaching remote islands and baobabs under huge skie...
Full-day drives along the Mara River in the northern Serengeti, waiting with an experienced guide for Migration herds to gather and cross when the sea...
Walk through Chagga farmland on Kilimanjaro’s lower slopes to the Materuni waterfall, then roast, grind and brew coffee by hand with a village family.
Track habituated golden monkeys through the bamboo forests of Mgahinga, on the Virunga volcano slopes, a gentler and very photogenic primate walk. It...
A boat trip to the protected reefs of Mnemba Atoll off Zanzibar’s north-east coast, snorkelling over coral gardens with opportunities to see turtles a...
Explore the web of waterways and islands of the Moremi Game Reserve.
Game drives through Moremi’s floodplains, lagoons and woodland, with opportunities to see wild dog, lion, leopard and big herds in one of Africa’s ric...
A steep guided day hike up Mount Bisoke in Volcanoes National Park, through bamboo and giant lobelias to a crater lake near the summit. Clear weather...
Join smallholder farmers near Sipi to pick, pulp, roast and brew Mount Elgon Arabica coffee, tasting the result and learning how coffee supports the c...
A guided day hike on the lower slopes of Mount Kenya, climbing through montane forest and bamboo towards moorland dotted with giant groundsels and lob...
A guided hike up the dormant Longonot volcano in the Rift Valley, climbing to the crater rim for sweeping views, with the option to walk the full rim...
A three- or four-day trek up Mount Meru in Arusha National Park, starting among giraffe and buffalo and ending on a dramatic crater rim with Kilimanja...
Sail the Nile to the base of the thundering Murchison Falls.
A short guided hike to the top of Murchison Falls, where the entire Nile squeezes through a narrow rock gap in a thunderous burst of spray.
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