Every safari we run

Four countries, and every combination of them we know how to run well. Filter the list, or skip it entirely and tell us what you have in mind.

Every safari on this page is a starting point, not a fixed departure. The route, the lodges and the pace all move once we know who is travelling and when.

An itinerary is built in three passes. We start from what you actually want to see, whether that is gorillas in Bwindi, a river crossing in the Mara, or both in one trip. We then fit that to the season, because the same park in March and in July is not the same place. Last we choose the camps and lodges, and we tell you where paying more changes the experience and where it does not.

Prices shown are lead-in rates per person sharing, based on two people travelling together outside the high season. Park fees, gorilla permits and light aircraft transfers all move those figures, so read them as a guide and let us quote your actual dates.

CountryDestinationExperienceTrip lengthLead-in budgetPhysical demandOrder

10 safaris

A silverback mountain gorilla in the undergrowth of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

3 daysUganda

3-Day Bwindi Gorilla Short Break

Fly in to Kihihi, trek one family in Buhoma, fly out. The shortest honest gorilla trip.

From$2,950 per person

The Victoria Nile running through Murchison Falls National Park

10 daysUganda

10-Day Uganda Grand Circuit

Rhino on foot at Ziwa, the Nile at Murchison, chimps at Kibale, the Kazinga Channel and gorillas in Bwindi

From$7,200 per person

The Virunga volcanoes above Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

5 daysRwanda

5-Day Rwanda Gorillas and Kigali

Two hours of tarmac from the capital to the Virunga volcanoes, a gorilla family and the golden monkeys

From$5,400 per person

Elephants stripping bark from a baobab in Tarangire National Park

9 daysTanzania

9-Day Tanzania Northern Circuit

Baobabs and elephant at Tarangire, the crater floor at Ngorongoro, and three nights in the Serengeti

From$7,600 per person

Wildebeest lining up to cross the Mara river

14 daysKenya and Tanzania

14-Day Kenya and Tanzania Migration

The Mara river from both banks, the northern Serengeti, Seronera and the Ngorongoro crater floor

From$12,800 per person

Granite kopjes standing above the Serengeti plains

16 daysUganda and Kenya plus 1 more

16-Day East Africa Grand Tour

Gorillas in Bwindi, chimpanzees at Kibale, Kigali, the Mara Triangle, the Serengeti and the crater

From$14,500 per person

An alpha male chimpanzee in Kibale Forest National Park

7 daysUganda

7-Day Uganda Primates and Savannah

Chimpanzees at Kibale, the Kazinga Channel, the Ishasha fig trees and a gorilla family in Bwindi

From$4,750 per person

Elephants in Amboseli with Kilimanjaro rising behind them

8 daysKenya

8-Day Kenya Masai Mara and Amboseli

Elephant under Kilimanjaro, then four nights on the Oloololo escarpment above the Mara Triangle

From$6,900 per person

A mountain gorilla of the Susa group in the Karisimbi thicket, Volcanoes National Park

12 daysUganda and Rwanda

12-Day Uganda and Rwanda Combined

Two gorilla treks in two countries, chimpanzees twice, and the Cyanika border crossing in between

From$11,400 per person

A dhow drawn up on the beach in Zanzibar

6 daysTanzania

6-Day Zanzibar Beach Extension

A night in Stone Town, then four on the north-east coast within reach of the Mnemba reef

From$1,900 per person

A silverback mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

None of these are fixed departures

Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and we will rebuild one of these around you or start from a blank page.

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