Exclusive Touch Africa

Exclusive Touch Africa Family owned and run travel company based in Vic Falls specialising in African Travel packages. http://www.exclusivetouchafrica.com

Exclusive Touch Africa is an Independent Destination Management Company to Southern & East Africa. Fully Inclusive Travel, Family Travel, Corporate & Incentive groups are superbly coordinated by creative and efficient staff whose local expertise is of the finest in the region. Itineraries are tailor made to suit each individual or groups desired program. Family owned and run, Exclusive Touch Afri

ca (ETA) has been operational since 1998, the owners having both specialized in the Meetings Travel and Incentive world for over 30 years combined. Privileged to be using some of the more prestigious properties and suppliers in the region, attention to detail and personalized service are their main focus and your hosts will provide superior quality travel combined with exciting and memorable experiences.

There are camps you choose because of where they are. And then there's Serian, which you choose because of who built it,...
17/08/2026

There are camps you choose because of where they are. And then there's Serian, which you choose because of who built it, who runs it, and what that means for every hour you spend inside it.

Alex Walker has been in the Serengeti long enough to know exactly what matters and exactly what doesn't. Serian reflects that. No unnecessary luxury. No performance. Just exceptional guiding, intimate access, and a camp that feels like it was designed by someone who actually lives in this landscape rather than someone who flew in to photograph it.

Sid has been recommending Serian for years. Not because it's the most photographed camp in the Serengeti. Because it consistently produces the kind of safari that people struggle to follow up.

The kind where everything afterwards feels slightly insufficient.
📸 Serian Serengeti — Alex Walker's legend

Everyone asks the same question. When is the best time to see the migration?Sid has answered this question more times th...
15/08/2026

Everyone asks the same question. When is the best time to see the migration?
Sid has answered this question more times than he can count. Here's the honest version — not the brochure version.

The migration is not an event. It's a cycle. The wildebeest are moving every single month of the year somewhere in the Serengeti ecosystem. What changes is what you're watching.

July through October — the Mara River crossings in the north. The dramatic, chaotic, extraordinary crossings that look like the whole world is moving at once. This is happening right now.

January through February — calving season in the south. Two million animals born in six weeks. The predators are full and hunting constantly. Arguably the most dramatic predator action of the year.

November through April — the green Serengeti. Almost no one. The light is extraordinary. The grass is alive. It's a completely different and completely underrated Tanzania.

There is no wrong time to go. There is only an uninformed itinerary.
Exclusive Touch designs around what's happening when you travel — not around what sounds best in a brochure.

2027 migration journeys — link in bio.
— Sid & Cheryl

📸 Wilderness Usawa, Serian Lamai

It's happening right now.The wildebeest have reached the Mara River. The crocodiles are waiting. The guides are position...
12/08/2026

It's happening right now.
The wildebeest have reached the Mara River. The crocodiles are waiting. The guides are positioned. And somewhere on the northern Serengeti, the herd is gathering itself for something that looks, from the bank, like collective madness — and is actually one of the most ancient, extraordinary acts of survival this planet produces.

1.5 million animals. One river crossing. No rehearsal.

We've been watching the build for weeks. The dust trails moving north. The columns stretching further than you can see. The moment — and there always is a moment — when the first animal commits and the rest follow.

This is why August exists.
If you've been thinking about the migration — the time to think has passed. The time to plan for next year is right now, while you can still feel what this moment looks like.
2027 Tanzania migration trips — link in bio.
— Sid & Cheryl
📸 Mara Plains Camp, Singita Sabora, Singita Mara River, Elewana Serengeti Migration Camp

The wildebeest don't wait for anyone.They move when the grass tells them to. North through the Serengeti, across the Mar...
11/08/2026

The wildebeest don't wait for anyone.
They move when the grass tells them to. North through the Serengeti, across the Mara River, through the crocodiles and the chaos and the extraordinary indifferent violence of it all. 1.5 million of them. Every year. On a schedule that has nothing to do with yours.
Tanzania is the kind of place that reminds you that the natural world was here long before we arrived and has very little interest in performing for us. It just continues. And if you're in the right place at the right time, watching it, something changes in you that's difficult to explain and impossible to replicate.
The migration is happening right now.
Sid and Cheryl have been designing Tanzania journeys for decades. If you want to be in the right place at the right time next year — the conversation starts now.
Link in bio → 2027 Tanzania migration journeys.
📸 Credits: © Serian Serengeti · Wilderness Usawa Serengeti · Singita ·

Nobody warns you about the leaving.You've done the dunes. You've done the silence. You've stood on the Skeleton Coast an...
07/08/2026

Nobody warns you about the leaving.
You've done the dunes. You've done the silence. You've stood on the Skeleton Coast and watched the Atlantic do something ancient and indifferent and completely unforgettable. You've driven roads that go on longer than feels reasonable and arrived at places that make the distance worth every kilometre.
And then it's the last morning. The bag is packed. The vehicle is waiting. You take one more look at the view — the desert valley, the dry riverbed, the light doing that thing it only does here — and you understand that you're not quite ready.
Nobody ever is.
There are easier places to travel. Fewer distances. More infrastructure. Places that meet you halfway and send you home comfortable and mildly satisfied.
Namibia doesn't do that. It asks something of you. It always has. And what it gives back isn't something you can photograph or explain properly over dinner when you get home.
It's something you carry. Quietly. For a long time.
That's probably why people remember Namibia properly.
— Sid & Cheryl
Follow along. We head north next. And the timing is very deliberate.
Link in bio → 2026 Namibia journeys · Tanzania migration trips now open.
📸 andBeyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge · Kwessi Dunes · Hoanib Valley Camp
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Twelve chalets in the heart of the Namib. Canvas walls, thatched roofs, air conditioning for the days — and a private op...
05/08/2026

Twelve chalets in the heart of the Namib. Canvas walls, thatched roofs, air conditioning for the days — and a private open-air room built for sleeping under the stars at night.
The views don't stop. Desert vistas in every direction, with Sossusvlei on the doorstep and the dunes doing something different with the light every hour.
Quad biking. Hot air ballooning. Helicopter flights. Horse riding. Or nothing at all — which, out here, is arguably the most radical choice you can make.
Kwessi Dunes doesn't try too hard. It doesn't need to.
Link in bio.

There's a particular kind of person who arrives in Namibia.Shoulders up. Phone in hand. Already thinking about the next ...
19/07/2026

There's a particular kind of person who arrives in Namibia.
Shoulders up. Phone in hand. Already thinking about the next thing. The itinerary checked three times before the flight. The kind of wound-tight that comes from a life that doesn't leave much space between things.

Namibia doesn't negotiate with that version of you. It just waits.
It waits through the first long drive. Through the silence that arrives when the engine stops and there is genuinely nothing — no traffic, no notifications, no noise that wasn't there ten thousand years ago. Through the first morning that starts cold and ends with something you don't have the right word for yet.

I've watched enough people arrive wound tight and leave softer around the edges. It happens every time. Not dramatically. Quietly. The way the desert does everything.
The silence changes you a little. That's probably why people come back.
— Sid

Link in bio → talk to us about your Namibia journey.
📸 Kwessi Dunes · Hoanib Valley Camp · Shipwreck Lodge · Wilderness Serra Cafema

Only accessible by light aircraft. Located in the isolated Kaokoveld, where gravel plains and dry riverbeds draw in dese...
16/07/2026

Only accessible by light aircraft. Located in the isolated Kaokoveld, where gravel plains and dry riverbeds draw in desert-adapted elephant, lion, giraffe and brown hyena.

The Skeleton Coast is a day trip from here. The rest of the world feels considerably further. Eight tented suites. A waterhole that delivers. A research centre that changes how you see this landscape.

Some places earn their reputation quietly. This is one of them.

Link in bio.
📸 lodges featured ; WILDERNESS HOANIB SKELETON COAST

There are 45 kilometres between Möwe Bay and Shipwreck Lodge.No tar. No phone signal. Just the Skeleton Coast doing what...
11/07/2026

There are 45 kilometres between Möwe Bay and Shipwreck Lodge.
No tar. No phone signal. Just the Skeleton Coast doing what it has always done — existing completely on its own terms, indifferent to whether you're comfortable with that or not.

The lodge sits on the southern bank of the Huarusib River mouth, inside the Skeleton Coast Central Concession — one of the most remote and protected stretches of coastline on the African continent. Between the Hoarusib and Hoanib Rivers. Forty-five kilometres from the nearest pickup point. A long way from anywhere that feels ordinary.

Cheryl has been recommending Shipwreck for years.
There's a reason people don't forget it.

Link in bio → enquire about Skeleton Coast journeys.


📸 lodges featured : SHIPWRECK LODGE

The standard Namibia itinerary makes sense on paper. Fly into Windhoek. Sossusvlei. Swakopmund. Fly out. Boxes ticked. P...
05/07/2026

The standard Namibia itinerary makes sense on paper. Fly into Windhoek. Sossusvlei. Swakopmund. Fly out. Boxes ticked. Photos taken.
But the places that stay with you aren't on that list.

They're on the road between those places. The gravel stretch where the dunes give way to nothing. The fuel stop three hours from anywhere. The moment the Atlantic appears on the horizon without warning and you realise the desert just ended and nobody told you.

Where people rush, we pause. Take the long route. The transition is where the story happens. Sid and Cheryl build Namibia itineraries around the journey — not just the destinations. Every transfer is considered. Every overnight is deliberate. Nothing is filler.

If you want a Namibia trip designed around what happens between the highlights — this is exactly what we do.

The places that stay with you aren't on the standard list.
Link in bio → bespoke Namibia itinerary planning

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