People

Expedition Africa travel staff, guides, drivers and tour leaders come from many different ethnic backgrounds but are all African born and bred. This rich cultural diversity is reflected in our business. Expedition Africa men and women believe in what they do, are talented individuals, qualified, competent and ethical. Most have worked together as a team for many years. We take an active interest in one another’s well-being and that of our families, we are professionals, we reimburse at above average market rates, and we channel our earnings back into the communities from which we come. We are knowledgeable, qualified, love to explore, and able to effectively assist with your travel plans.

At Expedition Africa we believe that our travel consultants (never on a commission) are some of the most experienced individuals in this sector of the tourism industry. Detailed planning, research, fact-finding and training are a sign of our commitment to providing a holiday where your enjoyment, value for money and safety come first. We place quality before quantity, we go many extra miles to communicate information with our travellers, we create our itineraries with due care, and we make sure we’re up-to-the-second in news and developments in all our destinations. We are 100% owner-run and independent.

We constantly review our scheduled tours, adding new places, people and discoveries. It goes without saying that our Team have roamed throughout Africa. We love talking about Africa, our roots and experiences. We hope we can be a source of inspiration when it comes to planning your next holiday.

Transport & Gear

Overland Trucks
Our custom built overland trucks are well suited to the roads and sometimes rugged terrain we use on our tours. Our vehicles don’t just look good, they are built to, and surpass, the most current National Bureau of Standards safety guidelines. We carry vital spares and tools and have support and back up arrangements throughout Africa. We attend driving and maintenance training courses with our vehicle suppliers and are able to carry out daily checks and road side repairs if necessary.

Safari Touring Vehicles
Safari Touring vehicles, are generally able to travel on much rougher roads than the larger trucks but in some countries allow for fewer un-obscured game viewing and photographic opportunities. Many tours will use a combination of Trucks and Safari Touring Vehicles.

Gear
Our camping and mobile tour equipment is maintained to the highest standard and replaced on a continual basis. Our tents are large, comfortable and 100% waterproof. For crockery, cutlery and cooking we adhere to strict hygiene guidelines and generally use stainless steel and easily cleanable materials.

Travel Services

Independent Travel Services

Many travellers and travel agents are sometimes surprised to learn that a significant portion of our business consists of Independent Travel— either Tailor Made tours constructed from the ground up to meet your specifications, or Private Tours based on one of our scheduled itineraries, that allow you to travel exclusively with family or friends.

Private Tours

Though we obviously don’t have anything against group travel, we know that many of our travellers sometimes enjoy private trips.

Our Private Tours offer a chance to journey on set itineraries, at a date of your choosing, with just your friends or loved ones and receive all the same services that you would when travelling on one of our scheduled group tours. We invite you to explore the itineraries on our Website and to call us for more information.

These trips combine the convenience of frequent departure date options (some even available daily) with the pleasure of savouring amazing travel experiences with friends and family.

Tailor Made

Most tour operators will tell you how eager they are to plan custom trips and how quickly they will get back to you. But to be honest, they aren’t, and they won’t. Creating new, unique itineraries is time consuming and labour intensive. It requires care, experience, imagination, and understanding. We've become good at it, we like it, and we’ve got a successful track record to prove it.

We are honest with you up front about how long it takes to answer your request, and we ensure a quality tour. We don’t rush things and we put together value for money tours.

Our travel consultants and operations staff routinely organise complex and difficult travel logistics, putting together trips of all kinds to just about most African locations, for couples, groups of friends, schools , universities, museums, corporate groups, a variety of non-profit groups, and families.

Our Tailor made tours are created to match your speci�?cations. They often cost more than our regularly scheduled trips, but our clients find the chance to customize their travel well worth the extra cost.

These tours match the specifications of our clients. If you have a travel dream, or just want to alter one of our standard scheduled itineraries, or do something really unique, just contact one of our travel consultants.

Values

Integrity, mutual respect, the promotion of personal growth and development within the tourism environment, guide our working behaviour and general conduct.

We have a written code and embrace the following responsibilities:

To provide a service that ensures safe, quality, profitable and stimulating safari tours.
To grow and develop the business and the individuals of the business by embracing a culture of interactive teamwork, where communication of individual ideas and contributions are shared and utilised to achieve common goals, and everyone is able to work unhindered in achieving agreed business objectives.
To perform our duties with responsibility and professionalism in accordance with appropriate standards.
To operate in compliance with legal and statutory requirements.
To be responsible for the management and application of a safe and quality driven work environment.
To promote and operate responsible tourism in our daily management and delivery of services.
To conduct ourselves and behave in a manner that is beyond approach. All of our behaviour will reflect a respect for the health and safety of others, for the culture and beliefs of colleagues and clients, and for the working and natural environment in which we operate.
To embrace and enforce an environment that is tolerant and non-discriminatory, especially with regard to nationality, ethnicity, culture, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical and mental differences, beliefs, religion and ideologies.
To respect and adhere to the accepted global understanding of business confidentiality and always act in good faith in dealings with and on behalf of the company. This includes any action that can lead to a conflict of interest – harming the reputation and business confidence of the company.
To protect the environment and support African charities and wildlife organisations.