Ellara Safaris Four Generations in the Wild

Fourteen destinations · One Africa

All destinations

We design journeys across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa — but we only send you where we would go ourselves, in the season we would go.

Southern Africa

The connoisseur's heartland
A private deck above the Sand River
South Africa

Sabi Sand & Kruger

The birthplace of the luxury safari and still its highest expression — leopard country, and the finest guiding tradition on the continent.

Best: May–Oct · leopard, Big Five, first safaris

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Wine poured at a Winelands table
South Africa

Cape Town & the Winelands

Table Mountain, Clifton's beaches, and the vineyards of Franschhoek and Stellenbosch — world-class dining at Africa's most beautiful address.

Best: Nov–Mar · food & wine, coast, culture

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The Okavango Delta from the air
Botswana

The Okavango Delta & Chobe

A desert that floods into Eden. Mokoro channels, great elephant herds, wild dog on the Linyanti — the purest low-volume wilderness in Africa.

Best: May–Sep · water & land safari, privacy

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Canoeing past elephants on the Zambezi
Zambia & Zimbabwe

The Zambezi, Luangwa & the Falls

Victoria Falls' thunder, Mana Pools' painterly floodplains, and South Luangwa — where the walking safari was invented and elephants own the dusk.

Best: May–Oct · walking, canoeing, the Falls

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A desert camp beneath the stars
Namibia

Sossusvlei & the Skeleton Coast

The oldest desert on earth. Apricot dunes at dawn, desert-adapted wildlife, and lodges lost in a million acres of silence.

Best: Apr–Oct · landscapes, photography, solitude

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Palm-shaded beach with a boat at anchor
Mozambique

Bazaruto & the Quirimbas

Dugongs over seagrass, sandbank picnics, and Portuguese-spiced barefoot luxury on archipelagos most travellers never reach.

Best: May–Nov · diving, sailing, castaway romance

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East Africa

The great theatre of the wild
Kilimanjaro rising above the Amboseli plains
Kenya

The Masai Mara & Amboseli

River crossings in the private conservancies bordering the Mara, and elephant herds beneath Kilimanjaro's snows in Amboseli.

Best: Jul–Oct crossings · Jan–Mar green season

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Lone acacia at sunset on the Serengeti plains
Tanzania

Serengeti & Ngorongoro

Two million wildebeest circling an ecosystem the size of a country, and a collapsed volcano holding a Noah's Ark on its floor.

Best: year-round · calving Jan–Mar, crossings Jul–Oct

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Mist rolling over green highland ridges
Rwanda

Volcanoes National Park

An hour with a mountain gorilla family in the bamboo forest — the most moving wildlife encounter on the planet — from lodges among Africa's most refined.

Best: Jun–Sep & Dec–Feb · gorillas, golden monkeys

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Waterfall pouring through lush green forest
Uganda

Bwindi & the Nile

Gorillas in the Impenetrable Forest, chimpanzees in Kibale, and the Nile forcing itself through the rock at Murchison Falls.

Best: Jun–Aug & Dec–Feb · primates, birding, adventure

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Rainforest and river from the air, Odzala
Beyond the map

The Frontier Collection

Odzala's lowland gorillas, Ethiopia's Simien mountains, Chad's Zakouma — for travellers who have seen everything and want what almost no one has.

Best: by conversation only

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The Indian Ocean

The barefoot finale — and our home waters
Resort pool above the ocean, fringed with palms
Mauritius

Our Home Island

We live here — which is why we know the quiet beaches, the best suites on the lagoon, and the tables worth crossing the island for.

Best: Apr–Jun & Sep–Dec · honeymoons, families, golf

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Thatched water villas over a turquoise lagoon
Seychelles

The Private Islands

Granite boulders, giant tortoises, and one-island-one-resort hideaways where your footprints are the only ones on the sand.

Best: Apr–May & Oct–Nov · total privacy, diving, romance

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Wooden jetty reaching toward a small island
Tanzania

Zanzibar & the Spice Coast

Stone Town's carved doors, spice farms, dhows at sunset and barefoot-chic beach lodges — the classic finale to a Serengeti safari.

Best: Jun–Oct & Dec–Feb · beach, culture, honeymoons

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"Season, water, wind, and herd — we plan by the bush's calendar, not the brochure's."
— Ellara journey design principle

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