What We Offer

We offer trips from 14 up to 54 days - in the comfort of our specially designed expedition vehicle; a 1998-model Mercedes 1820 truck. It is one of the best in the business, with exceptional reliability and speed.

The truck is designed with our clients in mind: as a result, comfort and space are high on our list of priorities. The truck seats only 16 passengers. A smaller group size means that our tours have a favourable impact on local communities and on the environment.

Reclining coach-style seats, with over 1.3 metres of legroom, give you the space you need on long days of travelling. Our unique drop-down windows afford exceptional viewing. Above each set of seats is a roof hatch to provide an additional all-round viewing option, which is excellent for photographers.

There are two storage lockers per set of two seats. One locker is located inside at your feet for your hand luggage/camera gear and contains a box-safe for travel documents, money and other valuables. The other is an outside baggage locker. The truck itself is fully lockable. The linked cab and passenger compartments allow for optimal communication between passengers and the crew, and includes an intercom system for educational talks while on the move.

Our tours and facilities are primarily designed to cater for students, staff and families who wish to gain knowledge of and appreciate the countries that they are visiting. You may be interested in wildlife, landscape, culture or just adventure travel, but with Africa-in-Focus you get so much more. There is the opportunity to learn about taking better photographs with our photographically knowledgeable Tour leader. While on tour he will run workshops and discussions round the campfire on various topics of photography, helping you gain a better insight into the places that you visit with us.

Africa-in-Focus provides a crew of three (tour leader/photographer, driver and cook) on all our tours: they will make sure your trip is a truly memorable experience! As part of our responsible tourism initiative, your driver and cook are employed from within Africa - thereby giving you the opportunity to experience different cultures at first hand.

We offer competitively priced overland tours of 2-8 weeks in duration, covering the best of Southern and Eastern Africa, including tailor-made trips for groups of 8-16 with particular interests. Our tour prices include many highlights and activities that would be extras with other companies.

Summary of our overland adventure safaris:
You can visit two major world-heritage sites (Victoria Falls** and Ngorongoro Crater), as well as many other famous National Parks, encounter a huge range of wildlife, landscapes and peoples, indulge in activities you have only dreamed about, and come back with a love and understanding of a large part of Africa. This is a holiday you will never forget, but it will also open your mind to the allure of this continent and its peoples - who are amongst the most friendly and cheerful anywhere despite the difficult daily challenges they face.

** 2005 is the 150th anniversary of Livingstone's discovery of "the smoke that thunders". So come and join in the celebrations at the Falls!

On all our African adventure travels, Africa-in-Focus will always do its best to provide what guests are looking for on their activity adventure holidays. Overland travel in Africa is far more comfortable and interesting with Africa-in-Focus. Travel in Africa is safe - yet exciting: why not try it with us? So to experience travel in Africa at its best join one of our comfortable, quality, but affordable African safaris.

Accommodation

Our tours are based mainly on camping: we provide spacious dome-style tents (with built-in groundsheets and netting) and thick foam mattresses and pillows.

Some nights are in bedded chalets. When camping, we usually stay in the best, accredited campsites, which all have good washing/showering facilities - and some have swimming pools and bars!