Simply pack your bags, grab your camera and hit the road less travelled. On a luxury African safari holiday, you can expect better wildlife experiences, better service, better accommodation in remoter locations and beautiful public shared spaces whilst dining is on par with top restaurants in the world.
Many luxury African safaris have exclusive traversing rights to the best locations. Others often operate in their own private reserves that allow you to go off road where much of the action happens. The guides, rangers and trackers are carefully hand selected and trained to ensure you the best service and experience. The reserves are uncrowded so you seldom see another vehicle – certainly never a swarm of vehicles surrounding a lion kill and seating in 4x4s is usually two abreast guaranteeing you a window seat!
An African luxury safari holiday is less about physical extravagance, more about personal, intuitive and engaging service and experiences. Accommodation is intimate and stylish, whether it’s a mobile camping safari tent, beach chalet, thatched safari cottage or exclusive use safari house.
A luxury African safari is a journey of discovery, guiding you through awe-inspiring scenes around Southern and East Africa by light aircraft, 4×4, trains and even helicopters whilst staying at exclusive, unmatched luxury camps, lodges and boutique hotels situated in exquisite locations around Africa. Luxury does not have to be about the price tag – it can be the freedom to explore and luxury of time to savour Africa’s safaris and sunsets.
The luxury on our safari never ended from sun downers overlooking Mt Kilimanjaro to our sophisticated accommodation at Sasaab to surprise romantic dinner at our tent by Mara Toto. We received exceptional service throughout our safari not to mention outstanding wildlife sightings. It was certainly a trip of a life time.
When to Go
Luxury has no boundaries and neither does Africa when it comes to the best time of year to travel. Time of year won’t dictate the luxury safari holiday service level, accommodation or availability of gin and tonics. What is impacted is the wildlife encounters and colour of landscapes or levels of water. So we work with you to plan out the ultimate luxury safari based on your holiday criteria.
Good to Know
Luxury is defined by the experience in Africa not just quality of fittings and furnishings. Some of the most expensive properties are remote and simple, getting you back to basics and fully immersed in Africa’s beauty. So if you are hunting for a luxury safari holiday where you can experience outstanding wildlife interactions, remote wilderness and the ultimate photographic opportunities, this is perfect for you. Know your non negotiables in terms of comfort and exclusivity levels, style of accommodation and experiences in Africa. Luxury is defined differently by each person, so we work with you to perfectly match your criteria with Africa’s finest.
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Purely Private Africa
Our flagship luxury African safari holiday is a purely private Africa package. This means from the moment you arrive, we provide you with pilot, luxury aircraft and the very best professional guides to ensure an outstanding wildlife experience from start to finish. We get you out of queues by pre booking everything on the ground for you with the very best VIP services. To top it off, we can incorporate private use only properties to ensure you the very best in exclusivity and discreet service.
Cape Town Savvy
Many of our guests prefer the luxury and glamour of exclusive use apartments in beach and city locations to ensure privacy and comfort. We have a number of one, two, three and up to twelve bedroom apartments, villas and houses available for exclusive use. You choose between room only stay or choose the fully serviced package with your own private house team complete with chef, maid and driver. We have private chauffeurs who can be with you for a day, multiple days or the full duration of your Cape Town stay, taking you to all of the best sites from top restaurants, iconic landscapes to local markets and hidden gems only locals know about!
Singita
If your definition of luxury is exceptional stylish lodges in pristine wilderness areas that orchestrate a symbiotic relationship between communities, wildlife and tourism then Singita is for you. We have worked for years with Singita and sent many guests to their beautiful properties in South Africa’s Kruger National Park and Sabi Sand, Zimbabwe’s magical Malilangwe and Tanzania’s Grumeti and Lamai. Expect the very best in hospitality with friendly, discreet service, safari excellence and uber elegant accommodation.
Azura Retreats
When your luxury safari holiday vision incorporates an island paradise start or finale, we highly recommend incorporating Azura into the itinerary. One of our most popular island luxury destinations is Azura Benguerra, Mozambique. This place is a pristine paradise where Azura are acting as guardians to protect the environment and give back to the local community. For just a discerning few, this luxury hideaway will guarantee eco chic accommodation, sumptuous local cuisine and diversity of land and water activities ranging from snorkelling, diving, fly fishing and game fishing, dhow sailing to walks, dune climbing, land rover island tours, village visits, beach picnics and if you are there on a weekend, soccer game viewing as the island has a local island league.
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We enjoyed our luxury safari holiday, thank you Encompass Africa! Our time at Xigera was sensational and we got a great insight into life in the Delta. We saw hippos, elephants, awesome bird sightings not to mention endless plains game on the islands. Toka Leya was brilliant and we had a local band perform for us at our traditional Zambia dinner. We also got to see wildebeest, buffalo, zebra, white rhino, hippo, moneys and endless species of bird. Botswana is awesome and the Victoria Falls finale was perfect for our safari.
The luxury on our safari never ended from sun downers overlooking Mt Kilimanjaro to our sophisticated accommodation at Sasaab to surprise romantic dinner at our tent by Mara Toto. We received exceptional service throughout our safari not to mention outstanding wildlife sightings. It was certainly a trip of a life time.
Encompass Africa thank you for a wonderful holiday. Particular mention to our guide in Botswana, Thuto. His knowledge was immense and people skills exceptional (patient, charming, kind). We saw so many extraordinary things. A luxury safari is only as good as your guide and we experienced the best in Botswana!
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