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Southern Africa
World Class
 journey exclusive to entirely private game reserves: Explore our finest safari areas in Southern Africa with excellent Big Cat game viewing and close-up photography opportunities. With incredibly well-established game, these private game reserves are exclusive to our guests at camp. Our finest professional guides personally host you and offer decades of expertise in these areas with their hands-on knowledge of daily wildlife patterns.
With almost 30 years in privately-hosted journeys, Guided Safaris® are partnered with the absolute finest private game reserves on the continent for our specialist journeys. Enjoy individual stories, expert photography tips and a personal insight on the family groups seen. Our fully tailored private luxury safari means you will never travel as part of a “group”.
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Africa's most exclusive Big Cat adventure

Spend a week or more with Guided Safaris® with fantastic front-row photography of Africa’s beloved felines in completely wild, private and authentic settings. These are the regions where Africa’s most notable wildlife documentaries have been privately filmed, providing images with an authentic flavor of the wild.

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Magic lantern

The Magic Lantern is an image projector using pictures on sheets of glass. Since some sheets contain moving parts, it is considered the first example of projected animation.

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Thaumatrope

The thaumatrope housed a rotating mechanism with a different picture on each side.
When rotated, you saw a combined picture (known as persistence of vision).

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Phenakitoscope

The phenakitoscope featured spinning disks reflected in mirrors that
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Zoetrope

The zoetrope was a hollow drum that housed images on long interchangeable
strips that spin and made the images appear to move.

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Flip-book

The flip-book, also known as the kineograph, reached a wide audience and is credited
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Movieola/praxinoscope

The praxinoscope expanded on the zoetrope, using multiple wheels to rotate images.
It is considered to have shown the first prototypes of the animated cartoon.

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The Magic Lantern is an image projector using pictures on sheets of glass.

Learn more about the Signature Southern Africa safari
Our collective area of almost a million acres is private access to just a handful of guests journeying to our private game locations. Experience Southern Africa far from the crowds and public parks, in a completely authentic wilderness with excellent wildlife.
Off The Grid
Experience
Close up to Big Cats.
Early morning game drives position you on the track to seek big cats at their most active time in the bush. The afternoon drives leading into spotlit evening returns to camp offer a chance to go in search of more nocturnal species - and stalking the predators at their hunt! Being away from the over-run public parks affords a relaxed environment where the game is more visibly habituated and never disturbed by crowding or threat. As a conservation company, Guided Safaris® is renowned for eco-luxury. Stay at our luxury camps, owned and operated by Africa’s biggest names in documentary making. We’ll even provide you with pro-camera equipment with lens at select camps.
Set out in your private 4x4 cruiser, custom-designed for unobtrusive photography and comfy bucket seats, with some of our most experienced Professional Guides who are prominent rangers in these private areas and know the wilderness intimately. They know exactly where to find the game, being resident in these locations.
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Victoria Falls

A World Heritage Site; one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. This impressive sheet of falling water is a spectacle to behold; twice the height of the Niagara Falls and well over twice the width of the Horseshoe Falls. Guided walks around the Victoria Falls with a naturalist to learn what makes the Falls so impressive. At sunset, enjoy a romantic cruise with wine and canapés over the Zambezi River.

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Your Luxury Safari

With each itinerary custom-designed to your taste and travel dates, we ensure that our utmost personal care carries forward at our luxury settings on safari. We know luxury safaris intimately and feature only the most special, truly authentic, luxury safari lodges; Some even with heated plunge pools on your private suite’s viewing deck. Gourmet meals are included at our safari lodges from start to finish while in our care. Prepared from the freshest ingredients and an organic farm to table approach, our menus will impress the finest palate on a global level with its simplistic and wholesome approach to safari dining. Award-winning cellars, with fine wine also inclusive of your safari.

A photographer’s paradise
with prolific viewing of Big Cats in their natural environment, our wilderness projects are also contributing to crucial research and support for anti-poaching monitoring and funding. Your Guided Safaris® journey helps support Lion, Leopard and Cheetah conservation.
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BOTSWANA

Adventure of a Lifetime

From action packed moments of cats stalking their prey to the quiet reflection of simply observing these magnificent creatures at ease in their wild environment. Our private settings in Botswana are some of the largest and most established private reserves, arguably the finest leopard and big cat viewing hotspots on earth, bringing us eventful sightings of these perfect predators: The thrill of tracking prints and sounds to the great satisfaction of finding these amazing creatures in their unaltered environments is something truly special to witness on safari.

Seek specialized antelope like Red Lechwe as your helicopter glides over the Okavango Delta
WILDEST
OKAVANGO
This remotest location
in the Okavango Delta offers phenomenal game viewing with some of the largest prides of Lions in the region. Some 20-strong individuals have been sighted on drives here with magnificent black-maned males at play with their little cubs in the spring. Also of note is the specialized Okavango Delta location where the famous Legadema documentary intimately followed a female leopard in the wild from cub to adulthood as she learned to hunt and carry on her own legacy.
Set out in your private 4x4 cruiser, custom-designed for unobtrusive photography and comfy bucket seats, with some of our most experienced Professional Guides who are prominent rangers in these private areas and know the wilderness intimately. They know exactly where to find the game, being resident in these locations.
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5 star
Luxury safari camp
 These Lion prides were made famous for their surreal Buffalo hunting skill in the Relentless Enemies documentary filmed on location.
THE LARGEST HERDS OF
ELEPHANT
As a final chapter
to this photography adventure, we venture out to our beautiful location in the north of Botswana, Selinda Game Reserve. A meeting point of three major safari frontiers, the private game reserve offers ample opportunities to seek out the famous big game renowned in African plains: Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Buffalo and even the occasional Rhino, getting rarer to spot in Africa, are provided with a safe haven in a true wild environment.
Rarer species such as packs of African Wild Dog are also frequently sighted with their dens very close to camp. Each season, the game reports from our head rangers document a flourishing and successful environment for seeking big and rare game.
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5 star
Luxury safari camp
African wild dogs are often seen pretty close to our camps. All wildlife photography featured here is from the actual safari locations explored on your Guided Safaris® journey.
Always tailormade.
Your Guided Safaris® Signature Southern Africa safari package includes pretty much everything from start to finish once you arrive in Africa - including all local flights, transfers, meals and drinks on safari and guided activities. Stay at our award-winning Luxury Safari Lodges, experience outstanding private game reserves with terrific wildlife viewing and up close photography. Get in touch to customize your safari.
Put something special on the calender. Plan your dream safari.
SEASONS + PRICING
FILED UNDER
Signature Southern Africa
DURATION
8 nights
NOTES
Fully custom safari
RATE CARD 2023
$18,500
per person for 10 nights*
$25,500
per person for 8 nights
$18,500
per person for 10 nights*
$25,500
per person for 8 nights
What's included
Your safari package includes

Personalized Guided Safaris® Meet + Assist
Luxury safari accommodation for 8 nights;
*Special: 2 nights free in Summer + Spring
Professionally Guided game drives
Roundtrip local air to the safari locations
Roundtrip local transfer from airstrip to camp
2 nights at the hotel in Victoria Falls with breakfast
Guided Victoria Falls with Zambezi cruise
Scenic 'Flight of the Angels' over Victoria Falls
All meals included at camps per safari custom
Lunch and dinner at camps served with wine
Full breakfast made-to-order daily
Complimentary in-room minibar and cocktails
Select wines from the camp cellars included
Sunset lagoon cruise in Botswana with canapés
Traditional afternoon tea at safari camps
Complimentary laundry service at camps
Complimentary in-suite WiFi at camps
All local government taxes and conservancy fees

Pricing excludes: Single supplement extra. Flights to Africa at guest expense.

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For almost 30 years, the original Luxury Safari Camps & Lodges collection by Guided Safaris®  has been at the vanguard of private safari experiences through Africa’s most award-winning locations and authentic settings. Embark on an extraordinary private journey for a close to nature, insider’s perspective on the most crucial conservation models in the safari world. Bring your partner, family - or closest friends, and pick a time of year to go. We'll take care of the rest.
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