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If you want a more exclusive safari, travelling with a small group of family or friends, and guided by a
real local expert, then consider a private guided safari. These are very different from our camping trips.
Private guided safaris have no scheduled departures. You choose the day you start, how long your trip is,
and where you visit.
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If you have particular interests, then we can usually find a specialist guide to match.
All the guides who run our private guided safaris have a high level of country knowledge - you can expect
them to be very good on the flora and fauna, with a deep knowledge of much that you will see and
experience.
Private guided safaris for one or two travellers will usually use a 4WD Land Rover. The guide
drives and is accompanied by a camp assistant. Three to six passenger would usually travel with
the guide in a specially adapted 4WD safari vehicle, leaving their camp crew to travel
independently, with all the camp equipment, in a separate vehicle.
In either case, each passenger has his or her own bucket seat with good back support. All the
vehicles are equipped with fridge/freezers, HF radios, inter-vehicle VHF radios and long-range
fuel tanks.
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Such trips usually include accommodation in a mix of lodges and camps and, in the more remote areas, nights
under canvas in private 'mobile camps'. These relatively luxurious camps use 3m x 3m tents with camp beds,
bedrolls and bedding, pillows, thick (10cm) mattresses, towels, chairs, wash stands, lamps, torches and
insect repellent. You do not do any work at camp; your only decision will be what to drink before dinner!
Mobile camps have their own private field toilets and hot bucket showers (just ask and water will be heated
for your shower). Three-course meals are prepared in the field kitchen, and eaten in style at a table laid
with crockery, cutlery and glassware.
At mobile camps a complimentary bar is included. Whilst staying at permanent lodges the system varies: some
include drinks, other will add them to a bar bill which is for your own account. There is usually a
complimentary laundry service, though some places may charge for this.
Private guided safaris are not cheap, but they are a really first-class way to see Namibia. See the
Makalani safari for an example of these trips. Note that we can always change the
routes and dates to suit you, and that per-person costs generally fall as the size of your group
increases.
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