AFRICA

On  this earth, there are perhaps only a handful of places that can be life  changing. Places so magical, so spiritual, so entrancing that you are  drawn to them without explanation.

Your  heart will rest at ease knowing that your safari with us supports  conservation of the world’s last great wilderness and promotes awareness  of highly-endangered animals and ecosystems. It also supports dozens of  locally conceived and locally managed projects that uplift and empower  people, one at a time. Your travel with us helps ensure Africa’s future.

There  is something deep within us, perhaps something that is wired into our  DNA from our stint as pre-humans. It’s something that lies dormant as we  go about our daily lives raising our children, earning a living, and  being citizens of the world. We did leave our oldest fossils in Africa,  after all. In fact, they’re still turning up every year.

For most of our lives, we don’t even know that “something” is there. Until we set foot in Africa.

You  feel it first, perhaps, as you return to camp from a game drive under a  crystal-clear sky with the weirdly, beauteous outlines of baobab trees,  sausage trees, and gigantic thimble-like termite mounds, all  silhouetted against the dome of a Milky Way you have never seen burn  with such brilliance.

Perhaps  you catch the outline of a herd of elephants or a solitary rhino, or  maybe a pod of hippo waddling out of the river to graze – all so  prehistoric and odd in their shapes. Perhaps it dawns on you, that with  the exception of your own presence (and that of the vehicle), absolutely  nothing has changed in this landscape in 10 million years. Perhaps that  is when this “something” awakens.

We  believe that the stars do shine brighter in Africa, the sunsets are  more colorful, the desert sand is softer, and the waters lapping the  shores are clearer. We believe that storytellers have more wisdom in  Africa, the people have a gentleness and humility we sometimes don’t,  and the animals know that this is exactly where they belong.

Your  heart will race watching millions of wildebeest crossing the Mara River during the Great Migration, and it will overflow dining on a romantic  sandbar in the Indian Ocean.

Your heart will be full when you join locals on a full moon bike tour around Cape Town.  It will sing watching 20 playful elephants bathe each other in a  watering hole. And it will pound with adrenaline on the great dunes of the Namibian deserts or among the reeds of the Okavango Delta.

Your  heart will rest at ease knowing that your safari with us supports  conservation of the world’s last great wilderness and promotes awareness  of highly-endangered animals and ecosystems. It also supports dozens of  locally conceived and locally managed projects that uplift and empower  people, one at a time. Your travel with us helps ensure Africa’s future.

Africa is complex, no doubt. There are many things to consider and a seemingly endless list of places to choose from.

Our expat African experts will share some suggestions of how to immerse yourself just a bit more.

And be sure to visit our Your Safari Experience section to see why the way we do safaris is truly different.

We  always smile when a traveler says, “I know this will be  my only trip to Africa.” Our passengers can’t stop coming back; some have  been nearly a dozen times.

Perhaps  they really didn’t believe us when we said that there is something  different about Africa, that there is something within all of us that  can only be awakened in Africa.

This  is what the Africa of Vuitton Travel and Luxury Lifestyle is all about. And, from that  spirit, everything follows … We endeavor to bring you closer to the soul  of Africa – its animals, its landscapes, and its people.

Whether  it’s your first time or you just went last year, for us, Africa is all  about what lies within.

Let our Africa bring it out in you.