Meet the team

The Expert Team

We believe that to get the best from a trip to Africa, you need impartial advice from people who know Africa well, have actually been to the places where you are thinking of travelling and can advise you from first-hand experience – like our team!

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Josh Flatman

Specialist countries:

Botswana Namibia

I first visited South Africa with Exeter University while studying for a Conservation Biology and Ecology Degree. After completing a further masters degree in biosciences and working on wildlife conservation and research projects in the UK, Norway and Cyprus, I returned to Africa to work as a volunteer in Namibia.

I initially spent a month volunteering for a small wildlife research and rehabilitation centre in central Namibia, working particularly closely with ground pangolins and endangered Cape vultures. From this I went to work on a research project studying the social and population dynamics of chacma baboons, involving full-day follows of habituated baboon troops. After completing my volunteering work I embarked on self-drive, camping trip around the central and the north of the country, visiting many of the highlights of this region.

Returning to the UK I continued in a job related to my masters subject, specifically in wildlife disease research before moving to London to work for a market research company. However, the passion for Africa and its wildlife led me to look for a career to pursue this and to inspire others with my experiences and I found Expert Africa. I joined in 2016 and have already got many trips under belt, as a Namibia specialist these have mostly focussed on getting to know this country in detail but I have also been to lucky to visit parts of Botswana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Josh's most recent Africa trips

Namibia

Southern Namibia, Fish River Canyon, Luderitz, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Windhoek

Apr-2018

16 nights

“This visit to the southern Namibia was memorable for many reasons. Visiting just after some good rains in the region meant the landscape was flush with greenery and colourful flowers carpeted the roadside. We covered a lot of ground on this trip but the highlights were spending time around the rim of the fish river canyon and boat trips from Lüderitz where we saw heavisides dolphins, jackass penguins and flamingoes. It happens to be the only place in the world where you can see flamingoes and penguins in the same place. ”

Tanzania

Arusha, Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti Migration Area

Nov-2017

10 nights

“My first visit to Tanzania and it didn't disappoint. The sheer quantity and density of animals was like nothing I had ever seen before, this peaked at a mobile tented camp in the central Serengeti in which we were surrounded by the great migration and its hundreds of thousands of bustling, bleating wildebeest. I found this northern Tanzania circuit also characterised by the diversity of landscapes, from the unique Ngorongoro Crater to the vast grasslands of the northern Serengeti spotted with lion-clad kopjes.”

Botswana

Maun, Okavango Delta Safari Reserves

Sep-2017

14 nights

“This trip combined research for the latest edition of the Botswana Bradt safari guide with visiting lodges to update my Expert Africa knowledge. It was my first visit to the Okavango Delta and famed as being one of Africa's best wildlife viewing destinations it did not disappoint, we saw everything we could have hoped for and even more. Staying on the NG31 concession home to the Chitabe and Sandibe camps we had multiple big cat sightings including seven leopard sightings during the course of two game drives. ”