We started African Travels to make a difference. With every trip you book, you do too!
Mainly online, African Travels allows you the convenience of booking a private safari in Africa from anywhere in the world! We always give personal advice and guidance from our own personal experiences. We work with small-scale, reliable partners in Africa. As both lodge managers and overland tour guides in Africa, these partnerships have been established over a long period of time, this means we can personally, put our full trust in the services they provide. We do not work with large corporations, you will never be treated as just another number or profit gain.
Why African Travels?
As a Social Enterprise, our policy is to be as sustainable as possible, in every aspect of our business. We take great pride in keeping Africa as authentic as possible so your experience will be as well. African Travels is a Social Enterprise. Social enterprises are businesses that trade to tackle social problems, improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. They make their money from selling goods and services in the open market, but they reinvest their profits back into the business or the local community. So when they profit, society profits. In short, a social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximizing profits for external shareholders.
A brief history
African Travels is founded by William Macdonald and Marijnke Vincent. Together they got what is needed to run a succesfull business. Will and Marijnke look at the client and tailor make a safari to the clients wishes! Not a single itinerary has been identical.
It all started in 2005 when they met in Livingstone, under "the smoke that thunders". William was then an Overland tour guide and Marijnke was organizing international conferences in Zambia for an eco-farming organization. After some time on the road (leading overland tours) they teamed up to run a safari lodge in Zimbabwe for several years. Deciding later to take their own company one step further by offering personalized Africans tours to a wider audience to enjoy the beauty of Africa. They want to share the vastness of lost Africa and all its beauty by offering this chance of a lifetime to like-minded individuals that share the same passion for sustainability and business on a small scale.
African Travels Exclusive Terms and Conditions
The Terms & Conditions can be found on our website and are subject to change: https://www.africantravels.com/terms-and-conditions
