Private Africa Safari
Your exclusive
Private Jet Safari
A luxury safari by Private Jet through Africa’s most iconic wildlife areas. This is a journey for the truly intrepid safari connoisseur seeking the most remote and unique experiences across Africa. With exceptional game viewing opportunities, Guided Safaris® offers luxurious and bespoke accommodation and the most scenic routes by Private Jet to enhance your safari experience.
Along with exceptional game, Guided Safaris® offers luxurious and bespoke accommodation and the most scenic routes by Private Jet to enhance your safari experience.
How we host you
Our Signature Private Jet Journeys are tried-and-tested experiences approved by Guided Safaris® experts over three decades of industry-leading specialization in Private African safaris for the most discerning guest list.
Offering comprehensive knowledge on animal behavior and local habitat, seasoned safari travelers will agree that the expertise of our Chief Designers and Professional Guides is undisputed in helping us ensure that our guests obtain the best sightings and an unmatched safari experience on ground.
With only a handful of suites, we host your stay in the luxurious setting of our most Private Camps in the wilderness.
Your Guided Safaris® Private Jet Safari includes pretty much everything from start to finish once you arrive in Africa — including exclusive use of a Private Jet all to yourself, VIP meet and assist with executive chauffeured transfers, premium lounge access, sumptuous cuisine with all meals and fine wine inclusive, and all hosted by our highest-rank Professional Private Guides, proficient in each area’s local ecology and current game patterns. We have hand-picked a large fleet of Charter Jets suited for your private party’s size.
Guided Safaris® Signature Private Jets
Refined ergonomics with full-recline club seats elevate your travel experience. Choose from varied passenger seating configurations to suit your needs.
These bespoke touches and focus on quality are what make our Private Jet Safari truly a world apart from any other offering in the industry.
Your private journey
Stand in perfect seclusion along the oldest Wilderness Migration paths on earth, marvel at the grandeur of the world’s oldest ecosystems in the Mara, track Lion prides in the most off-the-beaten-path frontiers of Botswana and soar over the towering Virunga mountain range and wild rainforests, counting stars under some of the darkest skies on earth. Encounter rare and endangered species like Black Rhino, along with African Wild Dog that usually den close to our camps in these private concessions. This scenic journey across Africa is a specialized Guided Safaris® experience with exceptional wildlife and scenery.
Our Flight Plan
This journey can be completely customized to your specifications
Safari Diaries
World-class experiences
The diverse game viewing, stunning landscapes and exciting activities will keep you enthralled on this incredible journey through four distinct regions and three African countries. Talk to our Chief Designers at Guided Safaris® to craft out special memories for your very own tailor-made journey to Africa. Encountering the largest herds of Elephants in the Okavango Delta, spending afternoons alongside Leopards stalking prey in the Mara grasslands and high-adrenaline mountain adventures to track Gorillas, our luxury safari experience never takes the focus off the natural surrounds of the wilderness, though you may need to break the occasional reverie to shoo out a cheeky Vervet Monkey from luxuriating in your private plunge pool.
Wake up to views of the mystical Virungas: a place of fire and ice, framed outside your private balcony at the finest luxury safari lodge in Rwanda with a dramatic rainforest location.
Gorilla encounters
The Virunga Massif is a vital habitat for endangered Mountain Gorillas in high-altitude montane and bamboo rainforests, between 2,500 and 4,000 meters, on dormant volcanoes.
A World Heritage site, the Albertine Rift is one of Africa’s most biodiverse regions with the last remaining populations of Mountain Gorilla.
This ancient rainforest is one of the most staggeringly beautiful sights to behold. Our Signature Bisate Reserve in Rwanda is the most award-winning luxury safari experience offering the perfect base to go Gorilla trekking.
In the most extraordinary Gorilla safari experience in Africa, only a handful of travelers are permitted to trek into the Volcanoes region to seek out habituated groups of Gorilla families. We spend an idyllic hour with these majestic creatures, silently observing their habits, watching the impressive Silverback Gorillas teach and play with their young.
Aside from over a thousand plant species, 700 bird species and myriad reptiles and amphibians, Rwanda is home to some 15 species of primates.
Oldeania alpina — Afroalpine mountain bamboo. When the short rains push new shoots up through the Virunga slopes, the Mountain Gorillas climb for them, and will travel well out of their way to this source. The bamboo provides critical food and shelter for the endangered Mountain Gorillas, Golden Monkeys, and Elephant.
Shadows of Mount Kenya
An unforgettable ‘Out of Africa’ experience is our scenic flight over the Great Rift Valley’s Flamingo lakes, completing your excursion with a sumptuous champagne picnic breakfast out on Mount Kenya’s slopes. You’ll feel like the first pioneers flying over Africa in remote, off-the-grid locations with no one else in sight. On this specialized journey, it’s not just about the game you’ll see, checking off the lists as you journey along: Your private game drives encourage you to linger at the quieter interactions and unique play of the wildlife. The guided walking safaris with the Samburu trackers open you to the world of the nomadic culture — learning to read the bush imprints, the approach to seeking wildlife, identifying species. In the care of our family of Private Guides, you’ll experience a true insider’s Africa as our honored, personal guest.
Jacaranda mimosifolia opens its whole canopy at once, then sheds blooming trumpets continuously for weeks creating a lilac carpet on ground. The fern-like bipinnate leaves follow as the flowering ends. SEGERA’S SELF-SUSTAINED BOTANICAL GARDEN IS A LUSH OASIS RINGED BY A CACTUS BOMA-WALL AROUND THE VILLAS DRAWING COLORFUL WINGED VISITORS YEAR-ROUND.
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The most exclusive Mara
Soar over the Great Rift Valley’s storied landscapes and touch down with your Guided Safaris® Private Jet at our airstrip in the Masai Mara — the world’s most game-filled region with phenomenal Big Cat encounters. We host your stay in the luxurious setting of our private camps in the Mara-Serengeti wilderness. Widespread and plentiful game viewing is what the Mara is all about. Unlike the highly seasonal locations in the Serengeti and Grumeti reserves, our locations in the Mara are abundant with year-round game and incredible Big Cat sightings. Diverse species of Antelope congregate around the remaining permanent waterholes in our private game areas as we trace the path of resident Lion prides out on their early morning hunt.
The tree that flowers bare. The lucky-bean tree (Erythrina abyssinica) drops its leaves in the dry season and blooms anyway, lifting dense scarlet spikes along the Mara’s woodland edges and up the escarpment before the rains arrive. Each flower splits its upper petal into narrow lobes, so a whole head reads as a lit brush, and Sunbirds mob it for the nectar. Later the woody pods dry and twist open at their constrictions, spilling the ‘lucky’ scarlet-and-black seeds.
On the trail of Africa’s Big Cats
In the season of the Great Migration, constant river crossings provide exceptional predator action from the Crocodiles and Lions shadowing the herds. In the dry season, clear morning skies with stunning sunrises offer a beautiful start to the first game drive of the day.
Cheetah are the most specialized of Africa’s Big Cats. The fastest animal on earth, they run at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour. The cubs follow Cheetah moms from the age of six weeks. In the Serengeti plains, up to 95% of cubs fail to reach maturity due to the threat of Lions and Hyenas, and too many crowds. Here in the Mara, with our special off-the-grid conservancies we’re seeing more productive sightings of these unique cats.
The Cheetah cubs leave their mothers at about a year or two, and the brothers form a band for extremely organized hunting. These cats require vast savanna grasslands and daylight to hunt, a perfect habitat offered by the Mara ecosystem well-suited to Cheetah, which is what makes them harder to source in the thicker woodlands and constricted spaces of South Africa and Botswana.
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A Day on Safari
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Soar by hot air balloon over the iconic setting of the Mara and return to camp to enjoy a champagne breakfast at one of Africa’s most beautiful luxury camps, a haven of peace and tranquility in a private concession. Later in Botswana, stay at a private island concession that is renowned as a legendary predators’ enclave.
Hyphaene petersiana — the real fan palm. Its hard white kernel is the ‘vegetable ivory’ once turned for buttons and carved to this day. Across Chief’s Island the palms rise over old termite mounds, and Elephants shake the trunks for the fallen marble-round fruit — passing the seed on across the floodplains as they go.
‘From our Signature journeys, Mombo remains steadfast among the finest game experiences in Botswana. The sheer abundance and diversity of wildlife in this region are outstanding.’
Unrivaled splendor in the Okavango
Far, far from the crowds in the mainland Okavango Delta, our private luxury camp sits in the heart of an exclusive Mombo private island world-renowned for its remote location and remarkable predator-and-prey interactions where Botswana’s most legendary documentaries have been filmed. The palm-dotted islands, floodplains and woodland of the private Mombo concession in the most remote part of the Okavango are classic of the region’s unique landscape. The sheer volumes of game seen here are thanks to the raised dry-land area better suited for wildlife. This private concession is home to specialized Antelope. Elephant and Hippo trudge through the swamplands and the Mombo area is also a birdwatcher’s paradise. The Okavango Delta is scattered with an incredible variety of species like the rare Wattled Crane, Pel’s Fishing Owl, White-backed Night Heron and Marsh Owl.
Here, on the floodplains of the Okavango Delta, the island emerges with ancient mangosteen, ebony, and fig trees. Amidst the golden light, the essence of the delta unfolds with the majestic presence and stealthy grace of the Big Cats.
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The Leopards of Mombo
Though Leopards are mostly nocturnal, they are highly opportunistic cats that do stalk prey in the daytime, particularly when they have cubs to feed. The Mombo concession offers some of the most highly sought-after wildlife viewing in Botswana. This prime location features iconic interactions with Lions and Leopard. With only 4 luxury suites overlooking game-rich floodplains, wildlife ever-present before the camp, Guided Safaris® guests enjoy game drives with our Private Guides and romantic sundowners on the plains.
When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you’re leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence
Private Jet SafariThis exhilarating trail in the footsteps of the rare and critically endangered Mountain Gorillas, the largest living primates on earth, starts in the cultivated foothills of the Virungas with stirring views. You will be immersed in the mysterious intimacy of this prehistoric rainforest: alive with colorful bird calls, butterflies and giant ferns. Spend a magical encounter with the family you’ve tracked, watching and photographing as they go about their daily lives and raise their young. One of the greatest wildlife experiences on earth.
As the eastern sky rises we see the Leo constellation entire: the Sickle hooking over gold Regulus, the Little King, who sits within half a degree of the ecliptic — the sun’s own road; the road this journey flies stop to stop, with Algieba the golden double at the mane. From February to June, the Leo figure stands in the evening sky over every camp on our route.
