Uganda · 10 days / 9 nights
The Forest, Unhurried
Forest first, with the savannah used as contrast and a full day left after the gorillas.
From US$8,095 per person
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Fifty Signature Journeys across East Africa.
Fifty journey architectures across Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Zanzibar and the Seychelles. Each is a reason for travelling made into a route, presented in two expressions of address and held to four house rules: fewer moves, depth before display, visible white space and owned handovers.
The collections
- 8Uganda
- 10Tanzania
- 9Kenya
- 5Rwanda
- 4Zanzibar
- 3Seychelles
- 13Two countries or more
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The Signature Journeys.
Uganda · 13 days / 12 nights
The Long Way Round
The complete Uganda, earned gradually from rhino country to the forest.
Priced on request
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Uganda · 11 days / 10 nights
Emptiness
Four nights of Kidepo remoteness with the Nile and the gorillas in service to it.
From US$7,470 per person
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Uganda · 9 days / 8 nights
The Four Hours
The rare four-hour habituation experience followed by a lake chapter where the forest can settle.
From US$8,505 per person
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Uganda · 11 days / 10 nights
The Great Uganda Traverse
Nile, chimps, two Queen Elizabeth sectors and three nights in Bwindi.
From US$9,565 per person
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Uganda · 11 days / 10 nights
The Nile to the Mountains
A long ecological sweep from the river's source to the western forests.
From US$8,760 per person
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Uganda · 9 days / 8 nights
Hoof, Lake & Gorilla
A lighter southern arc: walking and horseback safari before four nights around the gorilla forest.
From US$6,220 per person
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Uganda · 9 days / 8 nights
The Primate Lens
Built around time, repeat forest access and better light rather than a country checklist.
From US$7,610 per person
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Tanzania · 11 days / 10 nights
The Classic, Unhurried
The default northern circuit, slowed down and split by ecological purpose rather than fame.
From US$10,410 per person
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Tanzania · 9 days / 8 nights
The Calving
Four nights on the short-grass plains while calving and predator activity peak in daylight.
From US$6,960 per person
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Tanzania · 10 days / 9 nights
The Quiet South
Boats on the Rufiji, walking country and Ruaha's baobab escarpments with a coastal release.
From US$10,140 per person
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Tanzania · 9 days / 8 nights
The Far West
A pilgrimage to Katavi's floodplains and Mahale's chimpanzees, built around the twice-weekly air rhythm.
From US$10,105 per person
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Tanzania · 9 days / 8 nights
Northern Icons
The eight-night northern route with clean two-night chapters and a three-night Serengeti finish.
From US$8,585 per person
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Tanzania · 10 days / 9 nights
River Crossings, Read Properly
A migration journey that protects against prediction theatre by holding central and northern options.
From US$9,055 per person
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Tanzania · 9 days / 8 nights
Elephant Kingdoms
Tarangire's herds, Manyara's groundwater forest and two dawns on the crater rim.
From US$8,115 per person
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Tanzania · 10 days / 9 nights
Tanzania in Private
Private-use houses and villas create a safari with one rhythm, one host team and no shared agenda.
From US$10,790 per person
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Tanzania · 10 days / 9 nights
The Family Plains
Longer stays, private vehicles and a Serengeti chapter built for families.
From US$5,470 per person
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Tanzania · 10 days / 9 nights
Walking Wild
A specialist route where walking changes the scale of Tarangire and Ruaha.
Priced on request
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Kenya · 8 days / 7 nights
The Conservancy Answer
The Mara, privately: conservancy freedom, one deliberate reserve day and no convoy logic.
From US$7,515 per person
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Kenya · 9 days / 8 nights
North of the Equator
Rhino country, private land and the singing wells: the Kenya of the initiated.
From US$8,880 per person
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Kenya · 7 days / 6 nights
The Green-Season Mara
Resident cats, humane rates and open sightings in the Mara's underrated green-season window.
From US$7,245 per person
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Kenya · 10 days / 9 nights
The Mountain & the Wells
Kilimanjaro mornings, a private Mara and the silence of the north in one flown portrait.
From US$12,090 per person
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Kenya · 11 days / 10 nights
Kenya, Most Exclusive
The house route from Karen to rhino country, elephant plains and the Mara.
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Kenya · 10 days / 9 nights
Elephant Corridors
Wetland, lava, springs and red earth read as one elephant landscape.
From US$6,860 per person
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Kenya · 9 days / 8 nights
Born Free Country
A quieter Kenya built around Meru's rivers and Laikipia's conservation work.
From US$8,640 per person
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Kenya · 8 days / 7 nights
Mara in Depth
Five nights allow weather, cats and river logic to lead instead of a daily checklist.
From US$8,460 per person
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Kenya · 10 days / 9 nights
Rift & Red Earth
Rhino, lakes, Kilimanjaro and Tsavo's red earth arranged as a road journey with visible pauses.
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Rwanda · 8 days / 7 nights
One Perfect Week
Kigali, the hour in the bamboo and Lake Kivu's exhale in one composed week.
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Rwanda · 11 days / 10 nights
The Complete Rwanda
Savannah restoration, the gorilla hour and Nyungwe's canopy across all four landscapes.
From US$14,245 per person
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Rwanda · 5 days / 4 nights
The Short Pilgrimage
A three-day diary done properly: Kigali, one trek morning and a composed return.
From US$7,020 per person
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Rwanda · 5 days / 4 nights
Volcanoes Intimate
The four-night expression: one night Kigali and three nights beneath the volcanoes.
From US$8,675 per person
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Rwanda · 7 days / 6 nights
Savannah to Bamboo
A compact Big Five and gorilla pairing without stretching Rwanda into a checklist.
From US$6,710 per person
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Zanzibar · 5 days / 4 nights
The Exhale
The classic close: no transfers, no decisions and the sea at the door.
From US$440 per person
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Zanzibar · 7 days / 6 nights
Barefoot, Then Stone
Stone Town's honest morning first; then four nights inside the south-east's tidal rhythm.
From US$765 per person
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Zanzibar · 6 days / 5 nights
The Guarded Water
Repeated access to Mnemba water followed by Chumbe, where conservation is the substance of the stay.
From US$1,355 per person
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Zanzibar · 9 days / 8 nights
The Island Entire
The full circumference: history, north-coast water, south-east tides and a final Stone Town night.
From US$1,185 per person
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Seychelles · 6 days / 5 nights
The Deep Rest
One island, one villa, one beach and nothing scheduled after noon.
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Seychelles · 9 days / 8 nights
Three Islands, Slowly
Mahé, Praslin and La Digue in the classic grammar, moved by short hop and ferry, never hurried.
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The Private Horizon
One island, one key: Silhouette, Fregate or North held personally to the brief.
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Rwanda & Uganda · 10 days / 9 nights
Twin Forests
Rwanda's one-hour gorilla encounter, then Uganda's deeper forest chapter, with one regional team.
From US$14,370 per person
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Uganda & Tanzania · 13 days / 12 nights
Forest to Infinite Plains
A double-trek Bwindi beginning followed by Tarangire, crater and Serengeti.
From US$13,485 per person
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Kenya & Uganda · 9 days / 8 nights
Bush & Bwindi
Private Mara freedom followed by three nights in Bwindi and a gorilla trek with room to recover.
From US$8,450 per person
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Rwanda & Tanzania · 12 days / 11 nights
Volcanoes to Migration
Bamboo forest first, then a migration-positioned Serengeti and a two-night crater coda.
From US$14,925 per person
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Kenya & Tanzania · 13 days / 12 nights
One Ecosystem, Two Expressions
The Mara and Serengeti read as one connected system, with different freedoms on each side.
From US$12,935 per person
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Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania · 15 days / 14 nights
Great Migration & Gorilla
Gorillas, the Mara, Serengeti and crater arranged as one coherent wildlife arc.
From US$15,560 per person
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Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Tanzania · 19 days / 18 nights
The East Africa Grand Passage
Four countries, never a race: forests first, then conservancy freedom and the Serengeti-crater close.
From US$23,630 per person
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Tanzania & Zanzibar · 13 days / 12 nights
Safari to Spice
The classic northern safari released into four nights on Zanzibar's north coast.
From US$9,430 per person
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Kenya & Seychelles · 14 days / 13 nights
Mara to Seychelles
Rhino and Mara depth followed by five nights of granite-island release.
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Uganda or Rwanda & Seychelles · 16 days / 15 nights
After the Gorillas
Forest effort first, then Praslin, La Digue and Mahe.
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Rwanda, Kenya & Tanzania · 16 days / 15 nights
The East Africa Photography Expedition
Three specialist landscapes with longer shooting blocks and repeat access.
From US$20,890 per person
Read the journeyThe Sail Journey Standard
Architectures, not packages.
Every departure is read again against the traveller, live field intelligence, permit control, season and access. The journey remains recognisable while the details are allowed to become personal.
Each journey shows a 2027 from price per person on the Distinguished Camps and Lodges expression, low season, two adults sharing, with scheduled flights carried at cost. Journeys with a supplier item still being confirmed are priced on request. Published from prices are public rates; travel advisors receive nett rates at quotation. See what a safari costs for the per-night bands behind them.
- Fewer moves: no single safari night without a deliberate transit job.
- Depth before display: major wilderness chapters normally receive three nights or more.
- Visible white space: at least one unbooked half-day appears in the design.
- Owned handovers: every transfer, permit, activity and contingency has a named operator.
The Most Exclusive Addresses and the Distinguished Camps and Lodges preserve the same route, purpose and operating standard. The expression changes the addresses and the investment, never the soul of the journey.
Classic route shapes
Six sample routes, kept for their clarity.
Tanzania safari · 9 days
The Migration & Crater
A privately guided northern Tanzania safari that balances Tarangire's elephant country, the Ngorongoro Crater and a Serengeti camp selected around the season.
9 days / 8 nights
Arusha · Tarangire · Ngorongoro · Serengeti
Uganda safari · 10 days
Primates & the Nile
A complete Uganda safari linking the Nile, chimpanzee forest, western savannahs and mountain gorillas with the transfers and permits designed as one journey.
10 days / 9 nights
Entebbe · Murchison Falls · Kibale · Queen Elizabeth · Bwindi
Kenya safari · 9 days
Conservancies & the Mara
A private Kenya safari pairing Laikipia's conservation landscapes and active days with a carefully positioned Maasai Mara or conservancy camp.
9 days / 8 nights
Nairobi · Laikipia · Maasai Mara
Rwanda safari · 9 days
A Thousand Hills, Three Wild Worlds
A privately designed Rwanda journey joining Akagera's restored savannah, Nyungwe's ancient forest and the volcanic highlands of mountain gorilla country.
9 days / 8 nights
Kigali · Akagera · Nyungwe · Volcanoes
Uganda & Tanzania · 15 days
Gorillas to the Great Migration
A high-contrast East Africa journey from Bwindi's mountain forest to Tarangire, Ngorongoro and a seasonally positioned Serengeti camp.
15 days / 14 nights
Entebbe · Bwindi · Arusha · Tarangire · Ngorongoro · Serengeti
Tanzania honeymoon · 12 days
Wild Tanzania & Zanzibar
A Tanzania honeymoon combining private northern-circuit wildlife days with a restorative Zanzibar stay, so neither the safari nor the coast feels secondary.
12 days / 11 nights
Arusha · Tarangire · Ngorongoro · Serengeti · Zanzibar
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