Experience a Luxury Safari with Micato Safaris
It isn’t too late to plan your adventure to Micato’s Africa 2023!
Book by Jun 15, 2023
A luxury African safari is at or near the top of most travelers' wish lists, but the ins and outs of actually going on a safari may seem vague. Micato’s safari specialists understand this and are adept at transforming your perhaps hazy safari dream into a brilliant, achievable reality. All of Micato's safaris are designed to highlight the variety and richness of the game-viewing experience (almost invariably including the fabled Big Five: lion, leopard, Cape buffalo, rhino, and grandly gamboling elephants), typically making a morning and afternoon game drive in comfortable, well-provisioned and expertly guided safari vehicles.
No matter where you choose to explore, you can be sure you'll be treated like a well-loved, out-of-town member of the family.
EXCLUSIVE BONUS
It's not too late to plan a luxury safari on one of Micato's world-class departures to Africa in 2023. Book your African Safari and receive a $200 Safari Shop Gift credit, great to use for apparel and gear. But don't delay, you must book by June 15, 2023.
What is included with a Micato Safari
- Luxury accommodations and all meals.
- A highly-credentialed Micato Safari Director* during your journey.
- 24/7 Concierge Team poised to meet last-minute, unexpected, and unusual requests.
- Every last gratuity, even substantial ones to Safari Directors, drivers, concierges, waiters, porters… and everyone else, from beginning to end of your journey.
- Local wine and beer at mealtimes, vehicles stocked with refreshments.
- Complimentary laundry service. You can pack less and even return home with a bag of clean clothes… now that’s luxury!
Recommended Micato Safaris
Be sure to ask your advisor about other exciting Safaris
Jewels of Southern Africa13 days
Cape Town to JohannesburgUSD $27,500 Per Person Incl taxes
South Africa: Cape Town, Phinda Private Reserve, Sabi Sand and Johannesburg
Zambia: Victoria Falls
We honour many of Africa’s jewels on our safaris, and on this wonderfully eventful, under-two-week safari we present three especially radiant gems: sparkly Cape Town, gargantuan Victoria Falls, and the classically golden savannahs and lush forests of the private Sabi Sand Game Reserve, next to Kruger National Park. We begin with four nights in Cape Town’s knockout One&Only, a resort of outsize luxury on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and a superb base for explorations in this most cosmopolitan of cities and its varied, magnificent environs. Then comes a splendid four nights in the bush at beautifully designed Tengile River Lodge, on a serene bend in the private Sabi Sand Game Reserve’s Sand River. We end with a perennial favourite, the famed Royal Livingstone, where mist from nearby Victoria Falls freshens our day.
African Splendour17 days
Cape Town to NairobiUSD $29,350 Per Person Incl taxes
South Africa: Cape Town
Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls
Kenya: Nairobi, Maasai Mara
Tanzania: Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti
We’re not sure why, but great journeys often involve great contrasts. African Splendour is a case in point. On the full 17-day safari (the first 5 days in Southern Africa are optional), we range through 34 degrees of latitude and four countries, but, most engagingly and contrastingly, we experience the diverse excitements of Cape Town’s urban pizzazz, the watery colossus of Victoria Falls, and the wondrous game lands of the Serengeti-Maasai Mara ecosystem, where the wandering rains compel the planet’s most momentous movement of big, interesting mammals. (And then there’s the Ngorongoro Crater, which really can’t be contrasted with any other place, because there really isn’t any other place remotely like it, at least on our home planet.)
The Great Namibia and South Africa Adventure15 days
Roundtrip JohannesburgUSD $23,300 Per Person Incl taxes
South Africa: Cape Town, Sabi Sand, Johannesburg
Namibia: NamibRand Nature Reserve, Etosha National Park
After an overnight in suburban Johannesburg, we begin in the brilliantly conceived chalets of Kwessi Dunes in solitudinous NamibRand Nature Reserve, exemplar of the country’s epic sceneries, followed by a three-night stay at the imaginative Onguma the Fort, surrounded by the peacefulness of Etosha National Park’s dry, archetypally vast landscapes, and free-ranging animals. Then we’re off to the iconic One&Only in forever zesty Cape Town and the gorgeous Cape Winelands, a dissimilar but no less bedazzling experience.
We finish in Sir Richard Branson’s Safari Lodge or his nearby Rock Lodge, tucked into his private Ulusaba Game Reserve, part of the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, a varietal land of acacia-dotted savannahs, riverine forests, and rocky bluffs, graced with 150 mammal species, 470 avians, and 300 tree species, ranging from monumental baobabs to winsome ilala palms.
Botswana's Timeless Wilderness12 days
Roundtrip JohannesburgUSD $19,700
South Africa: Johannesburg
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Gomoti Plains, Moremi
Zambia: Victoria Falls
If we had to pick the most miraculous African place of all, it might well be the Okavango Delta, where the 1,000-milelong Okavango River gives up on its search for an outlet to the sea and seeps lifegivingly into the sands of one of the world’s most uncompromising deserts, creating a vast and mesmerizing oasis. As Frans Lanting wrote in his elegiac book Okavango: Africa’s Last Eden, “The [Delta’s] very existence in the middle of the Kalahari Desert is nothing short of miraculous . . . like a dream.”
Botswana’s wilderness is expansive and—to our scurrying senses—timeless, and the Okavango isn’t its only dreamy place. Our under-two-week safari takes us to three others, right up near the top of African marvels: the lush and pacific Gomoti Plains Camp, the exemplary Moremi Game Reserve, quite close to another phenomenon of miraculous rarity, Victoria Falls.
Passage through Botswana and Zimbabwe14 days
Roundtrip JohannesburgSouth Africa: Johannesburg
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Khwai Private Reserve
Zambia: Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe: Hwange National Park
Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a world-unique oasis of smoothly meandering waterways, lagoons bubbling with hippos, idyllic minisavannah islands, the “most unexpected of wonders,” as Frans Lanting wrote, “water in the desert,” gently pulsing water that brings life to a dazzling population of wildlife. Victoria Falls, Mosi-oa-Tunya, “The Smoke That Thunders,” far and away the planet’s grandest waterfall—as we like to say, one of the planet’s grandest anythings— brimming with “scenes so lovely [they] must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight,” rhapsodized David Livingstone, the first outsider to succumb to the Falls’ immense charisma. And not far from the colossal cascade, Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park’s archetypal African landscapes, roamed in natural freedom by the fabled Big Five and five score other mammals and 20 score colourful avians, making Hwange one of the continent’s finest game-viewing, traveller-enchanting destinations.
How does a luxury safari company amaze and excel for more than 58 years? By a cheerfully relentless dedication to service and innovation… one of the reasons why Travel+Leisure says we treat our guests like well-loved family. Those familial values inspire the many Micato Differences.
Terms & Conditions
All fares are land only, per person, based on double occupancy and subject to availability at time of booking. Fares include taxes and fees and are in US dollars. Registration: A deposit of 30% is required at the time of booking. The balance or final payment is due 120 days prior to departure. Cancellations: Cancellations received by Micato 120 days or more prior to departure are subject to a cancellation fee of 20% of the total retail tour rate; 119– 60 days prior to departure is 50% of the tour rate; Cancellations received 59 days or less are subject to a 100% cancellation fee. Trip cancellation insurance is strongly recommended. Different cancellation terms apply for Custom, Private Classic journeys, or Extensions. Insurance is strongly recommended. International airfare is not included. Gift Credit: Provide code DT-0523 upon booking. New bookings only. Must Travel by December 31, 2023. Subject to availability. No cash value. *departures with fewer than 6 travelers may be locally hosted.