Experience a Luxury Safari with Micato Safaris
Explore the planet’s greatest game lands, enjoy Africa’s warmhearted people, and discocver its mesmerizing landscapes.
Book by May 31, 2024
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
Book your African Safari and receive a $250 Spa credit per person for use at applicable accommodations along your safari.
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
Passage through Botswana and Zimbabwe12 days - Land Only
Roundtrip JohannesburgPlease Inquire for Pricing
Weekly departures available through Dec 31, 2025
South 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.
The Hemingway Wing SafariDec 15, 2022 (12 days - Land Only)
Roundtrip NairobiPlease Inquire for Pricing
Weekly departures available through Dec 31, 2025
Kenya: Nairobi, the Laikipia Plateau, Maasai Mara.
Tanzania: the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara.
Such is Africa’s allure: that a bright fellow like Hemingway would lie in his tent, homesick before he’d even parted from a place that had come to seem more like home than home itself. We’re told these days to stick to the now, and the here, but Hemingway—like many of us lovers of Africa—knew that sometimes you can’t micromanage your passions. The Hemingway Wing Safari—a cherished favorite of Micato staff—is a tribute, not only to Africa’s tendency to grab hold of our hearts, but also to the old-fashioned and cozy safaris of Hemingway’s time, with three tented camps (a little more luxurious than in Ernest’s day, but he was never one to avoid intelligently offered luxury), good looks at East Africa’s most legendary game parks (and a couple of lesser-known gems), and five swooping flights that bring us into great intimacy with Africa’s landscapes.
African Splendour15 days - Land Only
Cape Town to NairobiPlease Inquire for Pricing
Weekly departures available through Dec 31, 2025
USD $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 15-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.)
Jewels of Southern Africa11 days - Land Only
Cape Town to JohannesburgPlease Inquire for Pricing
Weekly departures available through Dec 31, 2025
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.
The Micato Grand Safari13 days - Land Only
Roundtrip NairobiPlease Inquire for Pricing
Weekly departures available through Dec 31, 2025
Kenya: Nairobi, Amboseli, Maasai Mara.
Tanzania: Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti
The grand, glamourous, unabashedly luxurious safaris favoured by princes and princesses, potentates, plutocrats, and ex-presidents (Teddy Roosevelt’s epic 1909 safari was one of the first of its sumptuous kind) are central to East Africa’s heritage as one of the world’s most desired destinations. This Grand Safari is Micato’s homage to those old and romantic days, to their indulgent and exquisite grace.
The Micato Grand Safari’s six flights make travel between game preserves and luxury camps a seamless, time-saving joy. And our stays in places like the airy Tortilis Camp in Amboseli; Bateleur or Governor’s Il Moran camps in the Maasai Mara; the charmingly luxe Four Seasons Safari Lodge or Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge in the Serengeti; and, of course, the Lewa Safari Camp on the Laikipia Plateau bring us into close and comfortable contact with some of Africa’s richest game lands and most stirring landscapes.
Voted #1 World’s Best Safari Outfitter by Travel + Leisure an unprecedented 10 times, Micato Safaris has set the industry standard for luxury African safaris and India journeys. When Felix and Jane Pinto founded Micato 60 years ago in Africa, their only business plan was to treat guests like family, an approach Travel+Leisure recognized when they wrote “Micato Safaris’ edge is personal warmth. The Pinto family run their show as though they were entertaining well-loved, out-of-town relatives.” Whether on a Classic scheduled departure or a top-to-bottom tailored Custom journey, Micato guests experience the very best touring and game viewing with highly credentialed guides and stay in hotels, lodges, and camps that balance timeless beauty with spectacular extravagances. A highly-credentialed Micato Travel Director accompanies every African safari and India journey. Also included are a renowned on-site 24/7 Concierge team, valet laundry, all meals, alcoholic beverages at mealtimes, every gratuity, and much more. And through The Micato One for One Commitment, the company sends a child to school for every guest on safari.
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.