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Cape Town
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SOUTH AFRICA
This is the gateway to Africa. With a history as rich as the African continent,
Kruger NP
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SOUTH AFRICA
Welcome to the wild side. If you ever wondered what would go
Cape Town is the perfect spot to get your bearings
down in a showdown between a crocodile, a pack of
before you hit the wild.
lions and a herd of buffalo, this is the place.
Hike Table Mountain, check out one of the only two land-based penguin colonies on earth and travel
Tick off the Big 5 and keep an eye out for hippos,
back through time with a visit to Nelson Mandela’s
giraffes and zebras straddled across an area nearly
old prison cell on Robben Island.
as big as Belgium. Mufasa, who?
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Victoria Falls
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ZAMBIA & ZIMBABWE
This is the place that made Dr Livingstone lose his marbles. Locally
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Dune 45
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NAMIBIA
The word namib means vast. A pretty accurate description of the world’s fourth
known as Mosi-oa-Tunya or “the smoke that
largest natural conservation area, spanning 23,000
thunders”, Victoria Falls plunges 100 metres down
square kilometres from the Orange River in the south
from a 17,00 metre wide rock lip on the border
to the Kukene River near the Angolan border in
between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It’s also one of the
the north. Get up early and trek up the sand dunes
world’s most scenic bungy jumps. Take that as a
like Lawrence of Arabia for a sunrise to write home
dare.
about.
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Okavango Delta
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BOTSWANA
Answer the call of the wild. Brush up on your Lion King lexicon as we take on
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Zanzibar
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TANZANIA
Beaches never looked this good. Travel 50 kilometres off the coast of Tanzania
the world’s largest inland river delta in a mokoro
into a cultural melting pot of Portugese, Indian and
(dug-out canoe). Used by local tribes for hundreds of
Arab influences nestled between white, palm-
years, this is the preferred mode of getting face-to-
fringed beaches and turquoise water. Kick back
face with hippos, lions and even crocodiles. Want to
in the hammock, enjoy the world-class diving and
high-roll it? Talk to us about a scenic flight.
snorkelling or go nuts over the seafood pancakes at Forodhani Gardens night market. Seriously.
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Mozambique
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MOZAMBIQUE
You’re here for the whale sharks. But that’s just the beginning. The reefs outside
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Maasai Mara
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KENYA
It’s called the Great Migration for a reason. Every year between July and
Vilanculos make up one of the best guarded diving
August, hordes of zebras, antelopes and wildebeest
secrets on the planet. Manta ray sightings are
leave the Serengeti Plains for the cooling comfort of
almost guaranteed and encounters with humpback
the Maasai Mara savannah. With close to two million
whales, dolphins and other elusive marine life are not
animals on the move with predators in tow, you won’t
uncommon during the right season. Bring a GoPro.
get this much action anywhere else on the planet.
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Gorillas in the mist
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UGANDA
Move over King Kong. Home to roughly half of the world’s mountain gorilla
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Serengeti NP
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TANZANIA
It’s a circle of life. On the flipside of the annual Great Migration lies the closest
population, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is
thing you’ll get to Pride Rock on the African
one of the last remaining places in the world where
continent. With the highest concentration of lions
you can get up close and personal with a 425-pound
anywhere, zebras, hippos, wildebeest and 518 bird
primate in the wild. Make sure to organise your
species, Serengeti dishes up a live action show
permit in advance (we can do it for you) as spots are
that would give David Attenborough himself some
strictly limited in order to minimise human impact.
serious FOMO.
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