This African Journey has it all! We have paid attention to all the little details to make this an experience packed with premiere wildlife viewing opportunities, specially crafted cultural exchanges, efficient travel between remarkable lodges and the personal awareness program and group camaraderie that are hallmarks of the Still Water Travel experience.

Some things to consider:

We use only open vehicles for game viewing which allows greater opportunity for seeing and photographing game.

We do not spend time in the large commercial game parks. We visit only private game preserves. This allows us to stay out past sunset where-as in the big parks you have to be out of the entrance gates by dark. This also means that we will not be crowded by up to a dozen other game vehicles from other lodges when we come across a sublime wildlife encounter. This is our own private journey.

Our guides are highly professional in both anticipating and taking care of your needs as well as facilitating a truly life-changing experience.

Finally, we have developed a program of intimate cultural exchanges in some local villages supported by Still Water Travel. We visit schools and communities, and will be spending an entire evening away from the lodge at an outdoor community dinner where we will share stories, songs and cultural histories.

This is more than just a safari. This is a deep and meaningful experience designed to create memories that will last a lifetime!

Matetsi, Zimbabwe - Occupying 50 000 hectares adjacent to the mighty Zambezi River, Matetsi represents a triumph for conservation, consolidating former hunting concessions into one of Africa's most magnificent game viewing sanctuaries where wildlife can thrive under protection.

Here, just 40 kilometers west of Victoria Falls, 50,000 hectares of unspoiled paradise is home to vast herds of buffalo, elephant and sable antelope which range freely between Botswana and Zimbabwe throughout an unfenced area of immense size. With its fifteen kilometers of Zambezi River frontage, Matetsi offers a river experience of both adventure and great tranquility - and it is here, overlooking these mighty river waters, that Matetsi Water Lodge is located.

The Rangers are almost telepathic in their ability to find game as they guide your four-wheel drive safari vehicle to within close viewing range of impassively grazing herds of impala, tsessebe, giraffe and zebra as well as within close focus range of the powerful predators: lion, leopard and cheetah. You are also likely to see plenty of wildebeest, warthog, kudu, black-backed jackals, steenbok, bat-eared foxes, vultures, hornbills and eagles.

Nxabega - Nxabega camp is one of Botswana's top safari camps. Situated under dense stands of African ebony and strangler fig trees in an exclusive wildlife concession, Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp is unique. It combines the Okavango Delta water wilderness experience with the excitement of viewing big game.

This magnificent lodge in Botswana has been beautifully hand crafted and was deliberately designed to ensure that its open plan dining room, lounge, wildlife reference library, and expansive sundecks all offer unobstructed views over the endless floodplains of the delta. Other facilities of the lodge include a raised game viewing platform, plunge pool and sundeck.

Phinda, South Africa - Phinda Private Game Reserve has an international reputation for its sterling conservation achievements. Phinda was pivotal to the creation of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park conservation area, and is responsible for one of Africa's most ambitious wildlife re-introduction programmers.

The wildlife at Phinda is sensational. The plains of Phinda are the roaming grounds of buffalo, white rhino, elephant, giraffe, impala, zebra and wildebeest. The famous glass suites of the Forest Lodge are probably the finest example of this organization's ability to successfully integrate stark raving luxury into the natural environment.

Cape Town - Cape Town is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful cities in the world and we will take full advantage of all it has to offer. From a visit to the top of Table Mountain, which dominates the Cape Town skyline, to a full day exploring the famous South African Wine Lands, and a full three nights at the elegant Radisson Hotel, we will be pampered and thrilled throughout our stay.