Understand Africa before you choose
You don’t get to know a continent by starting from a destination. You start from a place, a people, an animal, a season. You don’t need to know what you’re looking for: only what makes you curious.
Atlas of Africa
One continent, six worlds
From the savannahs of East Africa to the deserts of the south-west, from the equatorial mountains to the islands of the Indian Ocean. Start from one world and follow a story.
Savannahs and great plains
Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Masai Mara and the Great Migration.
Ocean and islands
Zanzibar, the Swahili coast, Nosy Be and the coral reef.
Deserts and extreme lands
Namib, Skeleton Coast, Kalahari and the dunes of Sossusvlei.
Forests and mountains
Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, rainforests and highlands.
Peoples and cultures
Maasai, Hadzabe, Swahili, Malagasy: Africa told by the people who live it.
Cities, history and civilisations
Stone Town, Lamu and the traces of ancient Indian Ocean trade.
If you’re starting from scratch
Not sure what you’re looking for yet?
Perfect. Africa is too big to start from a search box: start from something that intrigues you.
- I want to understand AfricaGeography, countries, regions, history.
- I want to see wildlifeBig Five, primates, great herbivores, birds.
- I want to experience natureSavannahs, forests, deserts, mountains, ocean.
- I want to meet culturesMaasai, Hadzabe, Swahili and many more.
- I want the beachZanzibar, the Swahili coast, Indian Ocean islands.
- I want adventureTrekking, volcanoes, walking safaris.
- I want something specialHand-picked lodges and camps, private trips.
- I don’t know yet what I wantTell us when you can travel: we’ll tell you where to go.
01 · Places
Where Africa happens
Parks, mountains and waterfalls: the names in our itineraries, explained before you go.
Tanzania
Serengeti
The endless plain, and the stage for the greatest migration on Earth.
Tanzania
Ngorongoro
One of the largest intact calderas in the world, and thirty thousand animals that almost never leave it.
Tanzania
Tarangire
The park of elephants and baobabs, where the dry season draws everything towards a river.
Tanzania
Kilimanjaro
Africa’s highest mountain: you can climb it on foot without being a mountaineer, but not without respect for altitude.
Kenya
Masai Mara
The Kenyan half of the same ecosystem as the Serengeti, and the most photographed river in Africa.
Namibia
Etosha
The great white place of northern Namibia, where safari means waiting at the waterholes.
Zambia · Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls
The smoke that thunders: the largest curtain of falling water in the world, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
02 · Nature
What happens in Africa
What happens, where and in which season: natural events and wildlife.
03 · People
Africa through the people who live it
Peoples and cultures as they are today, with their history and their tensions, not as folklore.
Kenya · Tanzania
The Masai
Semi-nomadic herders between Kenya and Tanzania, and the only people who live inside Ngorongoro.
Lake Eyasi, Tanzania
The Hadzabe
On Lake Eyasi, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies in the world.
East African coast
Swahili culture
A thousand years of exchange between Africa, Arabia, Persia and India across the Indian Ocean.
04 · The journey
How to experience Africa
When to go, what it costs, what a safari really is: the basics for choosing well.
The basics
What is a safari
It isn’t a trip to the zoo, and it isn’t a documentary either. Here is what it is really like.
Seasons
When to go to Africa
The time of year changes a journey more than the destination does.
Budget
What a journey to Africa costs
Real figures, and where it really pays to spend.
The continent
Africa at a glance
Fifty-four countries, three times the size of Europe. How to find your way.