Africa Tours

Africa captivates travelers in a way no other continent can replicate. From the Big Five roaming the open savanna of East Africa to the dramatic landscapes of Namibia's Skeleton Coast, from the cosmopolitan energy of Cape Town to the raw wilderness of the Okavango Delta, AIMS Travel's Africa programs were designed to convey the full breadth of this extraordinary continent. Small group departures, expert local naturalists, and carefully selected lodges ensured that every traveler came away with both unforgettable wildlife encounters and a deeper appreciation of Africa's human stories.

Amazing South Africa

12 days — Cape Town, Garden Route, Kruger National Park, Johannesburg, Soweto

South Africa is one of the world's most diverse destinations, and this twelve-day program was designed to reveal its full range. The tour begins in Cape Town, one of the world's most beautiful cities, where travelers explore the V&A Waterfront, ride the cable car to the summit of Table Mountain, visit the Cape of Good Hope, and tour the historic Bo-Kaap neighborhood. From Cape Town the group travels the celebrated Garden Route — a spectacular stretch of coastline, forest, and lagoon that connects the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape — stopping at Knysna, the Tsitsikamma National Park, and Oudtshoorn's famous ostrich farms.

The centerpiece of the South Africa tour is Kruger National Park, one of Africa's premier game reserves. Two full days of game drives allow travelers to search for lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino — the celebrated Big Five — alongside cheetah, wild dog, giraffe, zebra, and hundreds of bird species. The final section of the tour brings the group to Johannesburg and neighboring Soweto for an essential encounter with South Africa's complex modern history: the Apartheid Museum, the Hector Pieterson Memorial, and a walking tour of Soweto with a local resident who can speak to the lived experience of township life.

Kenya & Tanzania Safari

14 days — Amboseli, Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater

This fourteen-day safari across Kenya and Tanzania is widely regarded as one of the greatest wildlife experiences on earth. The tour opens in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, where elephant herds move in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro — a sight that has become one of Africa's most iconic images. From Amboseli, the group travels to the Masai Mara, Kenya's most celebrated game reserve and the northern extension of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Depending on the time of year, travelers may witness the Great Migration — the movement of more than one and a half million wildebeest and zebra across the Mara River, one of nature's most spectacular events.

Crossing into Tanzania, the tour continues into the Serengeti, where vast plains support some of the highest densities of wildlife anywhere in Africa. The program concludes at the Ngorongoro Crater, a collapsed volcanic caldera that functions as a natural enclosure for an extraordinary concentration of wildlife, including a rare black rhinoceros population. Throughout, travelers stay in well-positioned tented camps and lodges that provide both comfort and direct access to the bush. Expert Kenyan and Tanzanian naturalist guides accompany the group throughout.

Botswana Wildlife

10 days — Chobe National Park, Okavango Delta

Botswana is the gold standard of high-quality, low-impact wildlife travel. The country's commitment to conservation and low-volume tourism means that visitors experience the bush in relative solitude, without the traffic jams of vehicles that can characterize more heavily visited parks. AIMS Travel's Botswana program centered on two extraordinary ecosystems: Chobe National Park, home to one of Africa's largest elephant populations and extraordinary Nile crocodile and hippo concentrations along the Chobe River, and the Okavango Delta — the world's largest inland delta, where seasonal flood waters from the Angolan highlands spread across the Kalahari to create a labyrinthine network of channels, lagoons, and islands teeming with life. Activities in the Delta include traditional mokoro (dugout canoe) excursions, guided bush walks, and night game drives.

Namibia Discovery

11 days — Sossusvlei, Etosha National Park, Skeleton Coast

Namibia rewards travelers who seek landscapes of epic, otherworldly scale. The red sand dunes of Sossusvlei — among the tallest in the world, their crests glowing orange and crimson at sunrise — are one of Africa's most dramatic natural spectacles. The ancient dead trees of Deadvlei, standing bleached and skeletal against burnt ochre sand, have become one of the most photographed landscapes on the continent. From the desert, the tour moves north to Etosha National Park, a flat, pan-dominated ecosystem where waterholes become natural stages for extraordinary wildlife viewing: lion, elephant, cheetah, black and white rhinoceros, and springbok congregating in the dry season. The program also includes time along the Skeleton Coast — Namibia's cold, fog-shrouded Atlantic shoreline — where Cape fur seal colonies number in the hundreds of thousands and the wrecks of ships lost to the treacherous surf dot the beach.