African Safaris

Your guide to African Safaris

Types of African Safari

African safari holidays are a fabulous experience for all ages.  Tribes would love to help you plan the very best itinerary, which is not necessarily as easy as it sounds, as there is such a choice and variety of the type of safari holiday you can take in Africa.
For example, you can choose from :

• classic African safaris in luxury lodges
• safaris using tented camps
• fly-in safari
• family safari holidays 
• small group safaris
• mobile camping safaris
• walking safaris
• canoeing safaris
• Take your children on an African safari holiday
• jeep safaris
• horseback safaris
• special interest safaris - birdwatching, photography, botany ...

Website information

This website gives you information about the countries where you can take  excellent African safaris (see links left), with maps, photos and also itinerary ideas (with day by day itinerary, photos etc). You can use this site as a starting point for researching your safari, including requesting a Trip Planner for any country we offer.

Personal Tailor Made Service

You can give our African safari team a call for personal advice on the areas, accommodation and experiences which might suit you.  Our staff have been to the places you are looking at so can give you first hand knowledge of the right places to suit your choice of time of year, particular animals you would like to see, the type of accommodation that would suit you best, etc. We work on a tailor made basis and will need to know some basic information from you so that we can suggest the right experience for what you are looking for.

Booking a tailor made holiday is all about getting what you want  - the right holiday, at the right time, in the right place.  Most often this means that we arrange a safari holiday specifically for you, with your own private driver/guide.  However if you want to join a small group holiday, we can often arrange this for you too in some countries.  Sometimes you may find that you end up going to an area you hadn't even known about, since perhaps the area you had in mind is not ideal at the time of year you're able to travel.

Tribes African Safari Team

Our Africa team at Tribes has a passion for the continent, having travelled widely in many countries. The team consists of :

 

Julie Croucher Head of the Africa team, Julie has experience in all aspects of travel in Africa and spent years as a tour leader, lodge manager and ground handler all over East and Southern Africa.  She is happy to give you first hand knowledge of the areas we operate in, and talk through options for your holiday of a lifetime.  Coming originally from a zoological background Julie can advise you on the wildlife of Africa as well - she spent years chasing the elusive wild dog round the continent and eventually saw them in 2007! Her personal favourite countries include Malawi and Zambia.

Hannah Savege Hannah's love for Africa stems from her degree in third world development which took her to Kenya's Rift Valley where she helped to build a school and teach the local children.  She has also seen Africa overland from Nairobi down to Cape Town during which one of her highlights was eye balling the Mountain Gorillas!