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Helicopter safari
The greatest natural wonders
as never witnessed until you are flying above these plateau: The epic animal migration seen by air is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than mere simple movement; It suggests premeditation - an inherited instinct of million-strong herds willfully crossing the borders of wilderness frontiers along an ancient course.
Once you’ve experienced Africa by helicopter in the dry season and seen the purposeful, arduous movement of wildlife below, you find the aerial vantage deeply-affecting your kinship on ground with the game you encounter on drives. Many of the regions flown over vast wetlands, deep deserts and thick Mopane forests would be near impossible to sight by car, on foot or by canoe.
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EXPERIENCE

TOTAL PRIVACY

Enjoy a completely tailor-made safari experience with Signature Guided Safaris® journeys through the vast African continent - all at your own pace and pick your own dates of travel. You'll encounter no else on safari with you.

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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
made it seem like the pictures were moving.

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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
with inspiring early animators more than the machines developed in this era.

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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.

The most unique luxury safari experiences in Africa with Signature Guided Safaris® journeys by Helicopter
Reach Africa’s highest peaks by private helicopter. Witness majestic Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro on safari in East Africa. An incredible experience...
AERIAL
FLYING SAFARI
A hidden part of Africa
 reveals itself in a megaflyover vision through a camera pointed down from a low-flying helicopter, in images of shifting sand dunes to surging herds of wildlife. Proof that nothing in nature is perpetual. Our experienced pilots have been in the midst of some of the most important conservation work being carried out in Africa, whether assisting anti-poaching programs in airlifting Rhino to safe sanctuaries in  Kenya, to rescuing baby elephant calves from dire situations.
With almost 30 years of experience in tailoring private safaris, Guided Safaris® are partnered with the most established companies in Africa carrying roots in both Conservation and documentary filming. Guided Safaris® have also assisted award-winning filmmakers in capturing the perfect footage for quintessentially African aerials immortalized in books and films about the continent.
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WILDLIFE

MAKE THE JOURNEY AN EXTRA SPECIAL EXCURSION

Our scenic locations are carefully chosen for an otherworldly perspective of wilderness frontiers. In the shadow of a helicopter, watch a lioness stalk gazelles. You find that the oldest roads in Africa are shaped exclusively by Zebra and Elephant tracks marching resolutely toward the horizon in Africa’s last wild places.

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East Africa

Ancient Migrations

Generations-old accrued wisdom and resoluteness of evolution as witnessed when you’re airborne above the bountiful savannah lands that divide nations and diverse habitats. Africa's history is as deep as Precambrian bedrock, its landscapes more diverse than any other continent on the planet. Your journey over these regions transcends national boundaries.

The Great Rift Valley is where, two and a half millions ago, humans and animals first converged sharing some of Earth’s most spectacular ground.
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BOTSWANA

THE WETLANDS

A collection of myriad streams and little rivers form the catchment of the Okavango Delta, fed by summer rains falling between October and April, swelling the waters between December and March. This delta owes its creation to tectonic movements in a set of fault lines in the earth’s weaker crust along an extension of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, still occurring today.

By the dry winter, these scenic floodplains and islands encapsulate some of Africa’s most abundant concentrations of predators and antelope, also providing a spectacular diversity of birdlife.
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NAMIBIA

The Oldest Deserts

Fly low and slow over Africa, discovering the world's most diverse ecosystems, from the most densely teeming with life to the wildest emptiness. See giant dunes sprawl across the Namib, possibly the oldest desert on Earth.

Hoanib and Skeleton Coast,
along with the Kaokoveld in the further north, are some of the most remote and wild places that few ever get the chance to discover in a lifetime of African safaris. With the surreal contrast of towering mountains, dunes and an expansive desert, its incredible to discover that this stark environment is home to desert-adapted lion, elephant and giraffe.

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