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Welcome to our safari blah-g (pronounce it in any way you’re comfortable). It’s like a blog, but better (obviously, we write them). Our job is to guide good people like you through Africa’s most remote and hidden places — and how best to enjoy the must-see ones.

We’ve reimagined what lu*ury means: it’s about the stars above you, not just the ones on the door. Campfire nights and comfy beds? They’re just the beginning. Tiny details and grand vistas. Personal touches and unique design. This is the stuff we live for. Because we know you do too.

Think of them as our field notes: they’re mostly written by us, and each of us has our favourite — Sean’s blog-buster is all about Cape Town’s African penguin safari, the best places to see them. Chad’s blog-buster is how to combine Cape Town and Kruger. Roxy’s is my Botswana safari. And check out our friend David’s Safari Tales. We reread them often. Purely for quality control.

We’re not ninety-miles-an-hour, laugh-’til-you-cry funny. We’re far more refined than that. It’s more like a wry smile that involuntarily creeps into the corners of your mouth and gently tugs them upwards now and again. An eye-roll. A witticism here, a fun mental picture there.

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Latest Posts

Botswana, On safari

My Botswana Safari

There’s a reason why they say a Botswana safari will ruin you for all other safaris. But I never could’ve...

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South Africa

Our (nearly famous) African Penguin Safari

Discover where to see African penguins around Cape Town, from Boulders Beach to a Marine Big Five...

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Botswana, On safari

Hidden in Africa’s Wildest Corner

Best African Safari Offer: EcoTraining in the Selinda Reserve – a luxury learning safari experience in Africa's...

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Botswana, On safari, Tanzania

Botswana vs Tanzania

From Africa's Eden and thriving wildlife, to landscapes unchanged for millennia - Southern Africa offers the best...

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On safari

On safari

My Botswana Safari

There’s a reason why they say a Botswana safari will ruin you for all other safaris. But I never could’ve...

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On safari

Hidden in Africa’s Wildest Corner

Best African Safari Offer: EcoTraining in the Selinda Reserve – a luxury learning safari experience in Africa's Wildest Hidden corner.

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On safari

Botswana vs Tanzania

From Africa's Eden and thriving wildlife, to landscapes unchanged for millennia - Southern Africa offers the best African safari.

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Botswana

Botswana

My Botswana Safari

There’s a reason why they say a Botswana safari will ruin you for all other safaris. But I never could’ve...

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Botswana

Hidden in Africa’s Wildest Corner

Best African Safari Offer: EcoTraining in the Selinda Reserve – a luxury learning safari experience in Africa's Wildest Hidden corner.

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Botswana

Botswana vs Tanzania

From Africa's Eden and thriving wildlife, to landscapes unchanged for millennia - Southern Africa offers the best African safari.

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Botswana

My Botswana Safari

There’s a reason why they say a Botswana safari will ruin you for all other safaris. But I never could’ve...

Read more
South Africa

Our (nearly famous) African Penguin Safari

Discover where to see African penguins around Cape Town, from Boulders Beach to a Marine Big Five safari and a...

Read more
Botswana

Hidden in Africa’s Wildest Corner

Best African Safari Offer: EcoTraining in the Selinda Reserve – a luxury learning safari experience in Africa's Wildest Hidden corner.

Read more
Botswana

Botswana vs Tanzania

From Africa's Eden and thriving wildlife, to landscapes unchanged for millennia - Southern Africa offers the best African safari.

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South Africa

What to Pack for Your Botswana Safari: Clothing Tips and Tricks

What to pack for your Botswana safari. This is your practical, honest, and slightly cheeky guide to essentials and how...

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South Africa

The Best African Safari: Why Southern Africa Comes Out Tops

From Africa's Eden and thriving wildlife, to landscapes unchanged for millennia - Southern Africa offers the best African safari.

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South Africa

What to Pack on an African Safari

What to pack for an African safari. This is your practical, honest, and slightly cheeky guide to essentials and how...

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Botswana

Luxury African honeymoon safari

Trade 'I do' for 'I dare'—honeymoon where the wild things are, with candlelit bush dinners, champagne baths, and a million...

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South Africa

Best time of year for South African safari

Planning your first safari? Or your fifty-first? Here is our guide to the best time of year for South African...

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On safari

The best African Safari operators

We've received some good news, we've been chosen from a list of the world's best African safari operators as the...

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South Africa

How to combine Cape Town & Kruger

Why choose between Cape Town and Kruger when you can have both? By combining these two destinations, you’ll get the...

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Botswana

Top reasons to visit Makgadikgadi

Otherworldly salt pans, epic skies, meerkat encounters and wildlife that feels wonderfully far from anywhere. Makgadikgadi is one of Botswana’s...

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On safari

The best Safari Treehouses

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On safari

On safari pack your sense of humour

As we hit the road for our adventure to Lekkerwater, I was gazing out of the window wondering what to...

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Botswana

How to safari in Botswana

Here are 5 things you need to know about how to safari in Botswana. Welcome, fellow adventurers, to this enchanting land....

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On safari

David Bristow’s Safari Tales

In the great safari milieu of Southern Africa, few things get my gelada monkey (the only grass-eating kind) more than...

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Namibia

So near, yet so far flung

Flying in over an oceanic panorama of rolling Damaraland dunes, craggy inselbergs and the scars of dry riverbeds, you’re struck...

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South Africa

Lekkerwater Beach Lodge

As we hit the road for our adventure to Lekkerwater, I was gazing out of the window wondering what to...

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Botswana

Gomoti Plains, Okavango Delta

Nestled beneath the trees on the water’s edge, Gomoti Plains is a sanctuary you wouldn’t even know is there until...

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Miroslav Levanic
Miroslav Levanic
a year ago

How do you write a review for a travel agency that is above perfect? It's not hard! Hidden Africa listened … read more

Sonia Kolar
Sonia Kolar
6 months ago

Geraldine worked with my friend Cheryl to arrange the most amazing Southern Africa trip. Geraldine even worked around some of … read more

Stefan Williams
Stefan Williams
a year ago

Simply amazing. We have had 2 trips of a lifetime with Hidden Africa now, and plan on many more. Their … read more

Sumana Moole
Sumana Moole
a year ago

I cannot recommend Hidden Africa and Chad highly enough! From the very first conversation, Chad was attentive, knowledgeable, and genuinely … read more

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