Multigenerational holidays offer kids, parents, and grandparents a great way to reconnect over shared experiences and make new memories at the same time. A safari offers families the perfect opportunity to come together and strengthen family bonds in amazing places offering a wide variety of activities and ample wildlife. Let’stake a closer look at multigenerational…
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Duba Plains: the Water Cats
The renowned Duba Plains Camp sits at the the northern edge heart of the Okavango Delta, on a permanent channel, ensuring year-round water access. A matrix of palm-dotted islands, flood plains and woodland, the 33 000-hectare private reserve is typical of the region’s unique landscape, and is brimming with wildlife uniquely adapted to take advantage…
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Marataba on Special
When Marataba, a 23 000ha (56 834ac) privately managed section of unspoilt Africa within Marakele, was discovered by the More Collection, they instantly knew they had found something special. And now with an incredible offer of R4990 pppn until the end of July, there has never been a better time to visit! Prepare to be…
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Tuludi Camp – the Luxury of Space
If you’ve been forever dreaming of an iconic Okavango Delta experience, then end your search with Tuludi. The camp is located in the Khwai Private Reserve, over 200,000 hectares of pristine wilderness, and the landscape is fit for a fairy tale: floodplains stretch as far as the eye can see and the glistening waterways and…
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King’s Camp – the Heart of the Timbavati
Set in the northern corner of the Timbavati Private Game Reserve, adjacent and open to the Kruger National Park sits Kings Camp. This luxury lodge offers the absolute in sophisticated safari experiences promising spectacular wildlife sightings and exceptional African hospitality. The camp boasts breathtaking views over the open savannah and onto an ever active waterhole…
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Selinda Explorers – Tented Authenticity
Selinda Explorers Camp is a delightful little camp, perfect for travellers looking for a genuine “old world” safari in simple but elegant style. Unpretentious yet refined, this camp of just four tents offers a special safari experience with a focus on walking and 4×4 drives. The camp lies on the Selinda Spillway, embracing the natural…
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Daunara Safari Camp: Experiential Okavango
Exclusive-use is becoming more and more the thing to do in bush circles. Your very own camp in which you determine the activities, the timetable, the meal times, and everything you would do if you owned a home in the bush. Daunara Safari Camp, one of the newest lodges in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, epitomises everything…
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Sussurro: Indian Ocean Whispers
Few places in the world can offer a true sense of peace. Yet at Sussuro – Portugese for “whisper” – does just that, with the gentle lap of tiny lagoon ripples on its shoreline, birdsong in the trees around, and the soft creaking of ropes from the dhows moored just offshore all combining into a…
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Kids on Safari: Where to Go, What to Do?
If you want to truly open your eyes to the wonders of nature, take your kids on safari. There is a stunning curiosity that is innate in children, but tends to fade as we get older; a curiosity that is wide open to possibility, and a curiosity in all things, whether great or small. The…
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What Camera Do I Need on Safari?
This question is as broad as safari options on the continent. Camera bodies marketed with a huge pixel count, 96 000 focal points for auto-focus, this-and-this sensor with some kind of tracking you’ve never even heard of. Then a lens with nitrogen filled glass systems, nano AR coating and an 11-blade circular diaphragm… is it…
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Every Day is Earth Day
At Iconic Africa, we believe that we all have an obligation to make each and every day Earth Day in our own worlds. Environmental consciousness should not be limited to one day a year, and it is the continuation of a mindset that will make the lasting differences to our planet. According to the Earth…
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Serra Cafema: Wild Silence
The north-western corner of Namibia is one of the harshest environments imaginable. Rolling dune fields, harsh gravel plains and mountains with barely any vegetation growing on them characterise the landscape. Yet amidst all this, in an area that at least superficially seems unable to sustain life, is one of the most remarkable and enchanting ecosystems…
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Iconic Africa’s 3 Bucket List Safaris
From the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia to the roaring Atlantic Beaches of Cape Town… Africa has an almost endless variety of experiences on offer. It would take multiple lifetimes to do them all. Yet if we were absolutely pushed to choose only THREE – an almost impossible task – we know which way we’d go….
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Mombo: The Heart of the Delta
It’s not often that a lodge can categorically claim top spot when it comes to the wildlife viewing in 16 000 square kilometres of wilderness. And it certainly shouldn’t be the case that the same lodge can be renowned for the best viewing for the better part of two decades. Yet time and again, when…
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Lodges of Legacy
Dotted amongst the myriad of safari offerings out there are a few camps who have truly stood the test of time. Tracing their roots back to the early days of safari in their particular areas of operation, these gems have refined their offerings to the utmost degree, understanding their environments and their guests’ needs superbly….
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