Planning a vacation can be a very intimidating venture without someone to guide you through the details and pitfalls. Planning an international vacation that includes an African safari is a whole other animal altogether (pun intended).
Currently, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa are open and welcoming enthusiastic adventure travelers with open arms. These 3 countries are home to some of the best game reserves and safari experiences on the planet, and our partner Micato Safaris are the premier guides to bring it to life for you and your family.
We've had several of our team members experience safaris with Micato, click the links to read their blogs recapping their adventures.
The names alone are magic: The Serengeti. Ngorongoro Crater. The Maasai Mara. We’re reminded that when you travel, you visit names as well as places—names with romantic heft, names that resound, names that may have captivated travelers for many years. Names like Ngorongoro.
In less than two weeks, The Heart of Kenya and Tanzania introduces us—or re-introduces us—to places with famous names, but most of all, it brings us to fantastic places, fantastic in the sense that their like is to be found exactly nowhere else on earth.
Micato honors many of Africa’s jewels on their safaris, and on this wonderfully eventful, under-two-week safari they present three especially radiant gems: sparkly Cape Town, gargantuan Victoria Falls, and the classically golden savannahs and lush forests of the private Sabi Sand Game Reserve, next to Kruger National Park.
You'll begin with four nights in Cape Town’s knockout One&Only, a resort of outsize luxury on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and a superb base for explorations in this most cosmopolitan of cities and its varied, magnificent environs. Then comes a splendid four nights in the bush at beautifully designed Tengile River Lodge, on a serene bend in the private Sabi Sand Game Reserve’s Sand River. You'll end with a perennial favourite, the famed Royal Livingstone, where mist from nearby Victoria Falls freshens the day.
Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a world-unique oasis of smoothly meandering waterways, lagoons bubbling with hippos, idyllic minisavannah islands, the “most unexpected of wonders,” as Frans Lanting wrote, “water in the desert,” gently pulsing water that brings life to a dazzling population of wildlife. Victoria Falls, Mosi-oa-Tunya, “The Smoke That Thunders,” far and away the planet’s grandest waterfall—as we like to say, one of the planet’s grandest anythings— brimming with “scenes so lovely [they] must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight,” rhapsodized David Livingstone, the first outsider to succumb to the Falls’ immense charisma.
And not far from the colossal cascade, Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park’s archetypal African landscapes, roamed in natural freedom by the fabled Big Five and five score other mammals and 20 score colourful avians, making Hwange one of the continent’s finest game-viewing, traveller-enchanting destinations.
