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Micato Safaris

Luxury safaris in East, South and Southern Africa, featuring deluxe tented camps and bush lodges

The only ten time #1 winner of Travel + Leisure's World's Best Safari Outfitter award, family-owned Micato Safaris has been offering luxurious and personalized safaris to sophisticated travelers since 1966, venturing to Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and India. In addition, Conde Nast Traveler has honored Micato and its nonprofit, AmericaShare, an unprecedented five times with its prestigious World Savers Award, recognizing such programs as the Micato One for One Commitment, ensuring that for every safari sold, Micato sends an African child to school.
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Featured Tour

The Micato Grand Safari (15 days)

The grand, glamourous, unabashedly luxurious safaris favoured by princes and princesses, potentates, plutocrats, and ex-presidents (Teddy Roosevelt's epic 1909 safari was one of the first of its sumptuous kind) are central to East Africa's heritage as one of the world's most desired destinations. This Grand Safari is Micato's homage to those old and romantic days, to their indulgent and exquisite grace.

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  • Reviews & Recommendations

    98% Recommended

    All reviews are from confirmed guests sharing exclusive insights.
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    98 Reviews

    • Recommended
      17 Jan 2025

      Africa

      By: Gail
      We love Micato. We love their travel model in which everything is taken care of: hotels, restaurants tips. I mean everything. Their guides are friendly and knowledgeable. If they operated everywhere, I would always travel with them.
    • Recommended
      03 Nov 2024

      Hemmingway Wing + Tanzania/Zimbabwe extension

      By: Melinda & Larry
      WOW!!! Where do we start? Micato has been a wonderful company to work with. When they say all inclusive, they mean everything! From picking us up in the wee hours of the morning at the airport, to fast tracking us through customs/immigration, to making sure every location was aware we were celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary; nothing was too much to ask for. The lodges/hotels they use have all been top notch, our 3 Safari Directors (Wesley for the Hemmingway/Emmanuel for Tanzania/Leza for Zimbabwe) were all professional, knowledgeable and a blast to be with. Shamala, our concierge in Johannesburg left nothing to chance and made sure everything went smoothly for our return home. We are already looking forward to celebrating our 50th anniversary with Micato.
    • Recommended
      09 Oct 2024

      London/Africa

      By: tim
      There are wonderful but i would prefer to do my own tipping.
    • Recommended
      26 Sep 2024

      Safari

      By: Paul
      Well executed and very warm welcome and hospitality while we were in Kenya
  • Sustainability

    Our Commitment

    For all of its 60 years in business, Micato Safaris has been a steward of Africa’s delicate ecosystem – scrutinizing its environmental footprint in game reserves, using safari lodges with exceptional conservation practices, and educating their travellers in Africa’s rich cultural traditions.

    In a broader sense, however, Micato believes that the most powerful tool for sustainable change in Africa is education.

    To that end, in 1986, Micato employee Lorna Macleod founded AmericaShare, which directs the charitable work of Micato Safaris. Today AmericaShare, with Macleod as its executive director, is dedicated to improving lives through education, focusing on the vulnerable and impoverished women and children in the Mukuru slum of Nairobi, Kenya whose lives have been impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

    Among Micato-AmericaShare’s core initiatives:

    The Micato One for One Commitment, through which Micato sends a child to school for every guest on safari;

    A School Sponsorship Programme, which matches deserving African students with Micato travellers and advisors, who sponsor the students in boarding school;

    While on safari, Micato East Africa guests visit the Harambee Community Centre, with a lending library and computer centre, South Africa travelers spend time at the Red Hill Library and Community Centre.

    Micato is also a major donor and supporter of Huru International, which manufactures reusable sanitary pads that have been distributed to more than 200,000 girls in Africa.

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