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About overland safaris
If you'd enjoy spending a night roughing it in a rain forest rather than luxuriating in a boutique hotel, meeting fellow like minded travellers, getting involved in your trip, are up for flexibility and change when it comes to the daily plan, and enjoy adventure, then YES, this is the holiday type for you! Our overland safaris get you off the beaten track so sometimes things don't go...
Accommodation in Africa can vary from bush campsites in the middle of the African wilderness to fully luxurious hotels and lodges. Our overland safaris of an adventurous nature, so the accommodation and facilities used during your trip will reflect this. The below descriptions outline what can be expected on our camping safaris.
Our camping trips have 3 crew members - a Driver, Trip Leader and Overland Cook. Your driver & cook are generally Kenyan, Zimbabwean, Namibian or South African. They have a wealth of experience and are more than happy to share it with you. Your Trip Leader is generally African, European or Australasian. They have travelled through Africa...
Each overland truck carries everything needed to be completely self-sufficient. It has a fully equipped kitchen, including food, cutlery, pots and pans and a gas stove. All the day to day chores such as cleaning, washing-up, checking security and helping the Safari Cook shop and prepare meals are shared amongst all the passengers. But, there's still...
On our camping trips, most meals are provided for and prepared by the passengers and the safari cook. Passengers are divided into groups and assist in the general camp duties on a rota system. One of these duties is assisting with the meal preparation. Where food are not provided, travellers have the option to select a meal...
Our overland vehicles are custom built converted Mercedes Benz or MAN trucks that have seating space for our passengers and a storage areas for luggage and all trip equipment. The trucks seat between 27-30 passengers on our camping trips. Most seats are forward facing, though some models have a combination of....
Not everyone has the luxury of more than 3 weeks of holiday in one go, so we've designed our itineraries to interlink so you can enjoy as much, or as little as you'd like. If 8 weeks of camping is a bit to arduous for you, why not break the tour up into smaller sections so you can come back to finish the experience another time! Alternatively, enjoy rouging it...
On all of our camping trips we use two man dome tents with mosquito nets over the door and window areas, a sewn in ground sheet and a separate flysheet, which you share with a fellow traveller. If you're a camping novice, rest assured, the tents are very easy to put up and your trip leader will give you a demonstration. You will have to provide your own sleeping bag...