We aim to help you to make the right decisions about your visit to Africa, and then to organise a trip or safari that suits you perfectly.

To plan your time in Africa, it's important that you consider the choices and listen to our advice before making your decision. You'll find that we are a serious, straight-talking team who are totally passionate about Africa – all of our team have lived and worked or travelled extensively in Africa.

How we work

Our experts all give honest, independent advice – so that you can fully understand the choices before you book. We hope you will work with us to design a trip that will suit you perfectly. After a discussion about it with you, we will be happy to send you a free quote for your trip, with no obligation.

Nobody at Expert Africa works on commission – our only aim is to make sure that you get the right trip. Start here: there's a lot of information on this site. Read up and then contact us.

Listen to our travellers

We're serious about listening to our travellers, and about allowing them to be heard. Since August 2007, all of our travellers have been asked for their comments electronically.

On the right of this page, are the most recent of their trip reports. So read on to see what our travellers really think! To date, virtually all of their feedback responses are published on this website, word for word – and that includes the praise as well as the criticism!

Where to visit

Our information on Africa is split into the different countries, then areas within those countries, and lodges within those areas. Click on a country on the top-left menu to browse through these. For an overview, see the Destinations page.

Trips & safaris

This site has over a hundred examples trips and safaris. All include precise costs and details, and links to the camps and lodges used. Search these 'Trip ideas'.

If you have particular interests, then head for our Special interest pages to identify places that might suit you. These aren't comprehensive yet, we're still working on them, but they should give you some interesting pointers!

Maps

Geography and people, as well as flora and fauna, are fundamental to how we view Africa; maps are vital to us.

Explore Africa on this site using satellite maps . These also 'nest' and link to larger-scale views. Once on a map page, use the left-side menu, at the top, to navigate. View our more traditional reference maps, which show parks and towns in simpler terms.

For an amazing example, see our map of the Okavango Delta. Zoom in for more detailed views, drag and move the map, and click on lodge markers, or the left-side menu, to navigate to more maps.

This website

Keeping this site current is a huge task; it's never going to be complete or perfectly up to date – but it is steadily increasing in content and depth. Please contact us if you have any comments or thoughts on our site, or find any errors.

Our award-winning brochure

We produce a detailed and comprehensive brochure which aims to give an informative, factual and helpful overview of these areas – as well as an easy guide to many of our suggested itineraries with prices. We strongly recommend all of our travellers to read this before the book with us.

In 2001, our brochure first won the Guardian/Observer Annual Travel Award as the UK's best travel brochure. Since then, it has received many accolades – the most recent, in October 2007, was third place in these same prestigious, annual awards. Then the judges commented:

“Expert Africa's product doesn't have any clever design gimmicks (in fact it's all a bit cramped in places) but it takes third place thanks to the sheer quantity and quality of the information in there. This brochure would keep you busy for hours of enjoyable trip planning and shows that when working out your holiday, you don't necessarily have to rush straight to the internet.”

We'll work on making it less cramped … but meanwhile you can download our brochure, in 'pdf' format, and easily print out all the individual sections.

Alternatively, order a hard copy here. Note that our 2008 brochure will only appear in late January 2008 – but we continue to book trips for 2008; they are all tailor-made.


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