Gorilla Trekking
REGION
Rwanda and Uganda
BEST FOR
Small groups, wildlife enthusiasts, once-in-a-lifetime travellers
THE EXPERIENCE
Deep in the cloud forests of Rwanda and Uganda, where the Virunga volcanoes rise into permanent mist, live some of the last mountain gorillas on Earth. The forest closes in, wet and green and alive with sound, and then a clearing, a family at rest a few feet away, so much of ourselves looking back.
Few will ever stand this close. None will forget it.
The Great Migration
REGION
Serengeti -Tanzania and Masai Mara - Kenya
BEST FOR
Families, couples, first-time safari travellers
THE EXPERIENCE
It is the greatest movement of life on Earth. More than a million wildebeest and zebra pour across the plains of Tanzania and Kenya in a single restless mass, and the great cats move with them. We place you where the drama is closest, in lodges that sit along the herds' path, so the crossings unfold just beyond your room
Desert Expedition
REGION
Namibia
BEST FOR
Adventurers, photographers, solo travellers
THE EXPERIENCE
Namibia is the oldest desert in the world, and it feels it. Dunes the colour of rust climb higher than you think possible, wind erases every footprint by morning, and the silence is total. Then night falls and the sky ignites. There is nowhere emptier, and few places that stay with you longer.
Hot Air Balloon Safari
REGION
Tanzania and Kenya
BEST FOR
Families, couples, photographers, once-in-a-lifetime travellers
THE EXPERIENCE
You lift off in the dark and rise as the sun does. Beneath you the Mara unrolls in every direction, herds drifting across it, the whole plain washed gold. There is no engine, no sound but the burner and the wind, only Africa laid out entire, seen the way the birds see it.
Whale Watching
REGION
Hermanus and the Cape coast - South Africa
Bazaruto Archipelago - Mozambique
BEST FOR
Couples, families, groups, nature lovers
THE EXPERIENCE
Every winter the southern right whales return to the Cape, so close to Hermanus you can watch them from the cliffs. A forty-tonne body rolls, lifts a fin, then throws itself clear of the water and comes down like thunder. For all their size, there is something unhurried in them, and it is impossible to look away.