Luxury Safari – South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and Kenya

Welcome to Johannesburg!

On arrival in Johannesburg, you will take your connecting flight to Hoedspruit. Here one of the lodge staff will meet you for the transfer to the reserve. After lunch, you can check into your room to freshen up before your afternoon game drive, or simply relax after a long journey.

Dinner is served at the lodge.

Kapama Private Game Reserve - Walking nature tour in Greater Kruger Park

After breakfast, you join a morning nature walking tour in Greater Kruger Park. The Kapama Private Game Reserve offers the perfect sanctuary for a wide variety of wildlife. Spanning 13,000 hectares of the pristine African bush, Here, over 40 different species of mammals, including the Big 5 – elephant, lion, leopard, African buffalo, and rhinoceros – as well as 350 bird species, thrive in their natural habitat. Guests get the opportunity to observe these magnificent creatures in the wild with twice-daily guided game drives, nature walks, and once-in-a-lifetime elephant encounters.

A typical day at Kapama is a wake-up call early morning and take tea, coffee, and rusks. Start your morning game drive - approx. 3 hours. On your return, your breakfast is ready to serve. Lunch and siesta time to relax and prepare for the afternoon game drive -approx. 3-4 hours. The dinner will be served when you are back.

Kapama Private Game Reserve - Observe these magnificent creatures

Today is the second they in Kapama Private Game Reserve. You continue to get the opportunity to observe these magnificent creatures in the wild with twice-daily guided game drives, nature walks, and once-in-a-lifetime elephant encounters.

Panorama Route - Visit the Blyde River Canyon

After a final morning game drive, breakfast & checkout, you explore the stunning Panorama Route, visiting the Blyde River Canyon with God’s Window & the Three Rondavels and Bourke’s Luck Potholes. You arrive at your lodge in the White River in the early evening. Dinner is served at the lodge.

Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe - Take a sunset cruise on the mighty Zambezi River

After breakfast & check-out, you are transferred to the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport for your flight to Livingstone, Zambia. Your driver will meet you in the arrivals hall and transfer you across the border from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe to your hotel. In the late afternoon, we take a sunset cruise on the mighty Zambezi River!

Victoria Falls - Walking Tour

After breakfast, you start your walking tour of the magnificent Victoria Falls with your English-Speaking guide. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, Victoria Falls is classified as the largest, based on its combined width of 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) and height of 108 meters (354 ft), resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water. Victoria Falls is rough twice the height of North America's Niagara Falls and well over twice the width of its Horseshoe Falls. In height and width, Victoria Falls is rivaled only by Argentina and Brazil's Iguazu Falls.

Chobe National Park in Botswana - Game Viewing Boat Cruise

After an early breakfast, you depart to the neighboring country, Botswana, for a full-day tour of the world-renowned Chobe National Park! The tour consists of road transfers, a 3-hour open vehicle game drive, lunch, and a 3-hour game viewing boat cruise on the Chobe River! Make sure to have ample space on your camera!

On your return, you have time to freshen up before being collected for an evening of African entertainment at The Boma – Dinner & Drum Show.

Welcome to Nairobi, Kenya

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Victoria Falls airport for your flight to Kenya. On arrival, you will be meeting with your guide and transferred to your Nairobi hotel.

Masai Mara National Reserve - Arrive to the safari jewel

This morning after your breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Masai Mara National Reserve, often referred to as “the safari jewel”. On arrival, you will be met and have a game drive en route to the lodge where you will settle in at the Lodge.

Masai Mara National Reserve - Observe the traditional Masai way of life and learn about the customs of the Mara tribe

After breakfast, your day will be filled with various activities such as early morning and late afternoon game drives, nature walks and visiting a local Masai village to observe the traditional Masai way of life and learn about the customs of the Mara tribe. The Masai resident will be available to talk about Masai customs and culture around the campfire in the evenings.

Masai Mara National Reserve - Enjoy the Game Drive

Breakfast in the hotel and depart for a full day game drive with picnic lunch boxes or enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in Masai Mara Game Reserve with a lunch break in between the game drives.

Today the recommended activity of enjoying an early morning hot air balloon ride looking out over the stunning landscape of the Mara Plains. Masai Mara Balloon Ride is for those going for the balloon safari, you will be going for the early morning balloon, you will be picked up at the hotel at 5.30 am, and drive to the balloon launch site where you will gather for takeoff. Enjoy early morning ballooning over the plains, getting a bird’s eye view of the game below as the sun creeps slowly over the horizon. After approximately one hour aloft, the balloon lands while breakfast is being prepared for us nearby. The smell of bacon, sausages, and eggs drifts in the breeze as we sample exotic Kenyan fruits and homemade pastries and if you wish, glasses of bubbly to toast our flight, a tradition initiated by the Montgolfier brothers.

Nairobi Airport - Departure

After early morning breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight to Nairobi and onward flight home.