Above It All
Fly-In Safaris
Skip the road, and land where the wild actually begins.
Overview
Hours in the bush, not on the road.
A fly-in safari trades hours on the road for hours in the bush. Light aircraft link camp to camp directly, so a routing that would take a full day by vehicle becomes a forty-minute flight over the same ground — its own kind of view, wide and unbroken, before you are back on the ground and out on a game drive that same afternoon.
It is also the way to reach the camps that sit furthest from anywhere else — private concessions and remote conservancies served by nothing but an airstrip, where that remoteness is exactly what makes the wildlife experience what it is.
Noteworthy Details
What to know before you fly.
Not every fly-in safari is fly-in both ways. Several of our itineraries fly you in and drive you out, so the stopovers on the return route — the ones only reachable by road — still make it into your trip.
Luggage on light aircraft is limited to soft-sided bags, generally around 15kg per person. We confirm the exact allowance once your routing is set.
Flight times are short, usually under an hour between camps, which means more of your day spent on a game drive and less of it spent travelling.
Airstrips sit close to camp, sometimes within sight of it — arrival can mean stepping off the aircraft straight into a waiting vehicle.
Circuits
Built for the air, and easy to adjust.
Our fly-in routings tend toward the camps and conservancies that reward the aircraft most — the ones where the alternative is a full day’s drive, or no practical road access at all. If you would rather fly in and drive out to catch a stopover along the way, we build it that way from the start.
The remote camps are worth the flight.
Tell us which conservancies you have in mind, and we will route the aircraft around them.