The Classic Safari Company

The Classic Safari Company Experts in travel to wilderness destinations since 1992. We are veterans of global travel offering sophisticated and expertly crafted itineraries.

At The Classic Safari Company our relentless passion for wildlife and nature is evident in everything we do. Hours of operation: 9am - 5.30pm Monday - Friday

We believe authentic encounters should never be packaged and we invite you to work with our specialist team to tailor your ultimate Africa, India, Latin America or Indian Ocean Island journey. We’ve handpicked the places to stay selecting th

ose with serious style and local character, bringing you as close to nature as possible without sacrificing comfort. Our unmatched experience in arranging safaris to the world’s exotic destinations assures you of the highest quality adventure. Contact us for an unforgettable adventure.

“Hey Charlie - Charlie! Smile for the pesky photographer!” - “Blegh...”
30/05/2026

“Hey Charlie - Charlie! Smile for the pesky photographer!” - “Blegh...”

There are moments in conservation that feel like the world righting itself.Last month, four mountain bongos, one of Afri...
27/05/2026

There are moments in conservation that feel like the world righting itself.

Last month, four mountain bongos, one of Africa's rarest and most striking large antelope, touched down in Kenya. Flown from the Czech Republic of all places, the chestnut-red antelopes with their spiralling horns and pale vertical stripes were welcomed at Nairobi's airport by government ministers before being transferred to a conservancy at the foot of Mount Kenya. A homecoming, in every sense of the word.

From an estimated 500 animals in the wild during the 1970s, fewer than 100 mountain bongos remain in Kenya's highland forests today. More live in zoos than roam free. The work of reversing that, undertaken by the Kenya Wildlife Service alongside conservation partners across three continents, is painstaking and unglamorous: careful breeding programmes, adaptation phases, genetic planning, tick-borne disease. But it is working.

These four males will strengthen the gene pool of the existing breeding population at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy, with the hope that their offspring will one day walk back into the forests their ancestors once knew.

Kenya's ambition is to restore the wild mountain bongo population to 700 by 2050.

Combining glamourous colonial chic and unfiltered nature, Mbamba immerses you so completely in the Okavango Delta, it’s ...
24/05/2026

Combining glamourous colonial chic and unfiltered nature, Mbamba immerses you so completely in the Okavango Delta, it’s a wonder your feet don’t get wet!

Located in its own private concession, Mbamba Camp draws on the opulent early days of safari travel, with an inkling of an Indian Raj’s hunting tent, to place you luxuriously in one of the delta’s most rewarding and abundant game viewing regions.

From elusive leopards to chattering wild dogs, a host of antelope species and charming elephant families, this wonderful property places you in the beating heart of Botswana.

Some events are worth celebrating bigger...
21/05/2026

Some events are worth celebrating bigger...

The wild world awaits... all you need to do is step over the threshhold.Photo: Alex Walker's Serian
18/05/2026

The wild world awaits... all you need to do is step over the threshhold.

Photo: Alex Walker's Serian

You may have worked and saved for it, arranged your annual leave for it, or even just sweated over its planning. Whateve...
15/05/2026

You may have worked and saved for it, arranged your annual leave for it, or even just sweated over its planning. Whatever the circumstance, your Classic Safari should fulfil all of its potential and more. That’s why many of our bespoke itineraries feature more than one chapter.

From bush to beach, history to nature or wine to wilderness - why settle for just one story when you can have two... or more!

Four legs, protruding teeth, big ears, even bigger noses - nothing about an elephant’s appearance can be said to reflect...
12/05/2026

Four legs, protruding teeth, big ears, even bigger noses - nothing about an elephant’s appearance can be said to reflect that of humans. But to peek into those sparkling brown eyes, see their powerful family bonds and witness their expressions of emotion is to understand that we aren’t as different as we might look...

Namibia has a way of resetting your understanding of scale. Our own Shelly Vernon recently travelled the length of this ...
09/05/2026

Namibia has a way of resetting your understanding of scale. Our own Shelly Vernon recently travelled the length of this extraordinary country, and the range of what she encountered speaks to why Namibia holds such a singular place in African travel.

From leopard and cheetah at Okonjima Nature Reserve - Home of AfriCat Foundation, through the vast open plains of Etosha and the ancient engraved rocks of Twyfelfontein, to tracking desert-adapted black rhino on foot through the Kaokoland, the journey moved constantly between wilderness and human story. A morning with the Himba community near Hoanib Valley Camp and time spent with giraffe researchers in the field gave that story depth and texture that no guidebook quite prepares you for.

The Atlantic coast offered its own chapter, the ghostly wreck of the Zeila emerging from the Skeleton Coast fog, and the spectacle of Sandwich Harbour — dunes colliding with ocean — before the road turned inland again towards Sossusvlei and the silence of the NamibRand.

What Namibia offers, more than almost anywhere, is contrast held together by continuity. The desert is never far away, and neither is the sense that the land here has been shaped over millennia by forces that pay little attention to the human schedule.

Few - if any - have had such a pervasive influence on how we perceive the natural world. Dr Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, C...
08/05/2026

Few - if any - have had such a pervasive influence on how we perceive the natural world. Dr Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Charles Darwin... it's a succinct list.

But if one were to be asked who they view as the human face of wildlife conservation, surely this wonderful centenarian would be the first to mind.

Happy 100th birthday Sir David.

Leap into the Year of the Horse! (Between you and we, EVERY year is the year of the horse here at The Classic Safari Com...
06/05/2026

Leap into the Year of the Horse!

(Between you and we, EVERY year is the year of the horse here at The Classic Safari Company!)

Photo: Offbeat Safaris

In the Kalahari, the Tswana name for this ancient land translates simply as "the waterless place." It is an unlikely set...
03/05/2026

In the Kalahari, the Tswana name for this ancient land translates simply as "the waterless place." It is an unlikely setting, perhaps, for a story about hope. And yet Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in South Africa is quietly doing something rather remarkable: proving that the return of wildlife to a landscape can heal not just what is visible, but what lies beneath it.

Over decades, the 118,000-hectare reserve has been rewilded with native species, from wild dogs and cheetah to white rhino and the great grazing herds that once defined Southern Africa. Now, science is revealing that as these animals move, graze and feed the soil, they are also locking carbon deep into the earth, more durably than any forest ever could. The reserve has become the first private property in South Africa to earn verified carbon credits from wildlife conservation, funding the very work that makes it possible.

It is, in the words of those involved, a proof of concept: that the natural world, when given the space and the animals it evolved alongside, will begin to restore itself. And that restoration, it turns out, is one of the most powerful climate tools we have.

This is what safari, at its best, is part of. The health of the land and the future of wildlife are not separate conversations. They never were.

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Sydney, NSW

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Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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