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Ladies Only Safari Classic Kenya Tour
Explore Kenya - Escorted Ladies Tour
Kenya
10 DAYS
FROM $5,340
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East Africa Safari Tour
Highlights of East Africa Tour
Kenya, Tanzania
13 DAYS
FROM $8,750
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South Africa Guided Tour
South Africa Odyssey
South Africa, Swaziland
14 DAYS
FROM $4,730
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Cheetah on Safari from Makutsi Safari Springs
Makutsi Classic Safari
South Africa
7 DAYS
FROM $1,890
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Superior Room Bishops House
Gorilla Trekking - Bishop's House
Rwanda
3 DAYS
FROM $2,145
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Tanzania Highlights: Staff at Kirurumu
Tanzania Highlights - Classic
Tanzania
7 DAYS
FROM $4,540
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Safari Tour Wildebeest Migration
Migration Safari - Classic
Kenya
8 DAYS
FROM $4,050
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Botswana Lodge Explorer Safari
Botswana Lodge Explorer
Zimbabwe, Botswana
11 DAYS
FROM $4,050
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Views of Kilimanjaro Safari
Classic Kenya
Kenya
10 DAYS
FROM $5,145
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Affordable Kenyan Safari Experience
The Big Tusker Safari
Kenya
8 DAYS
FROM $4,165
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Explore the untouched natural beauty and wildlife on this Botswana overland tour. Starting with the natural wonder of Victoria Falls and an unforgettable sunset at Makgadikgadi pans. Enjoy ‘Big Five’ game viewing in open 4x4 vehicles in Moremi Game Reserve before boating, walking and mokoros in the pristine Okavango Delta. End your tour with game viewing along the Chobe river.
Delta & Wildlife Adventure
Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namib
12 DAYS
FROM $5,665
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Experience this popular Cape Town to Victoria Falls route, overlanding in style! Adventure through the Kalahari and Namib deserts, both of which offer an abundance of breathtaking scenery, African wildlife and rich cultural attractions. Explore the sights of cosmopolitan Cape Town, enjoy spectacular wildlife sightings in the Okavango Delta, view the mighty Augrabies falls and Fish river canyon, see the wild animals of the Kgalagaladi and Etosha National Parks, summit the highest sand dunes in the world in the Namib desert and relax along the Okavango, Kwando and Chobe Rivers ending at the world-famous Victoria Falls.
Transkalahari Adventure - Northbound
South Africa, Zimbabwe, B
22 DAYS
FROM $6,285
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Room at Camp Amalinda, Zimbabwe
Kruger, Victoria Falls & Chobe Adventure
South Africa, Zimbabwe, B
15 DAYS
FROM $6,165
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Connoisseur Collection
Deluxe South Africa Safari
South Africa
13 DAYS
FROM $5,755
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This Namibia Secrets gives you the chance to experience Namibia in a very personal way. You will have your own professional and experienced safari guide who will enhance your enjoyment of this unique country by making it a fascinating and stress-free journey of discovery amidst very dramatic scenery. The knowledge, experience, and character of the guides are critical to a successful safari, with intimate knowledge of each area and camp/lodge, allowing them to share the local insights and highlights whilst adding continuity and depth to your safari.The Secrets camps are designed to offer a true “back to nature” experience with the emphasis being on the experiential aspect of safaris, to go back to the roots of safari, to touch, to smell, to feel and to experience the wild, with one’s feet firmly in the dust that covers Africa. This is an experience that is exclusive in the real sense of the word, as well as being very much away from the pressures of ‘normal’ life!
Namibia Secrets
Namibia
14 DAYS
FROM $9,500
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Great easy organised safari via Bench Africa. The Journey was an adventure that was life changing. Will use Bench again for our return trips.
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Great easy organised safari via Bench…

Lyndal from Bench Africa did an amazing job in organising our private trip to Africa. We visited four countries and every transfer went to plan with delightful people meeting us at every point. The game camps were excellent with ...read more

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Delwyn
We were extremely happy with the advice and assistance that we received from Maria. Our trip was organised perfectly and we had the most amazing time.
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Dream trip

Superb and knowledgable service. Advice on trip, timing, planning was very very good. They arranged essentially a private tour for us that fulfilled and exceeded all our expectations at almost the same cost as a group tour.
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Superb and knowledgable service.
Everything ran smoothly, great accommodation and our guide, Kevin was absolutely fantastic. Wonderful family holiday
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Everything ran smoothly Kenya
Our travel coordinator Julie was absolutely fantastic. The entire trip was seamless which made for an extremely relaxing holiday. Highly recommend
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Maria Tropiano at Bench Africa made our trip to South Africa the most wonderful, memorable and stress free holiday. I would recommend Bench Africa for anyone visiting Africa.
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A memorable trip South Africa

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Our Bench Africa safari in Kenya was everything we hoped for and more. Highly recommend Bench Africa if you’re thinking about an African adventure- nothing was any trouble at all. Even if you’re not thinking about an ...read more

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LIFE CHANGING Kenya
Great experience - great service from Hank
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South Africa South Africa

Thank you Lyndal - you gave us the perfect holiday with all your suggestions & recommendations. Loved the accommodation superb in four locations - transfers all worked well giving you the experience to remember for life. ...read more

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Bench Africa Covid-19 update When the Australian borders initially closed back in March, we put out a statement encouraging the travel industry to stay strong. We understood that the situation was serious, but we also knew that, like most things, there is always light at the end of the tunnel. After all, we have been through 51 years of our own ups and downs, from the low points like the Ebola outbreak and the Zimbabwe crash, to high points like our 50th anniversary celebrations last year. Our calculations based on previous crises determined that although this situation wouldn’t be great for our business (or our industry) we were in a strong financial position to patiently wait it out. What we hadn’t imagined, however, was quite how long this situation would drag on for, and as time has plodded on and borders remain closed, we have had to fine-tune our strategy. And so whilst our entire staff has remained with us throughout the past 6 months, unfortunately due to all of the factors out of our control we have had to deviate from our original plan to ensure we continue on as a robust company into the future, however long that this may endure. This has resulted in having to say a sad farewell to a few cherished members of our close-knit team. This has been a very painful process, as these are the same friends with whom we sat around the campfire last year in South Africa when life seemed so easy. These are the same team members with whom we have shared all our ups and downs. And these are also the same individuals we will look to rehire when we can ultimately return to business as usual. Bench Africa remains in a stable financial position as we await the inevitable end to restrictions. We are already seeing signs of a return to normality, with African borders beginning to open up again, subject, of course, to strict conditions for entry. It’s these well-established protocols that saw East and Southern Africa entirely evade the Ebola pandemic in 2014. South Africa was the continent’s worst Covid-19 affected nation, and yet their statistics are comparatively remarkable and their response to the pandemic is noteworthy. Despite having over a population of one billion, Africa’s figures are the second lowest in the world, second only to Oceania. Although I’ve seen explanations thrown about as to why this may be the case, with everything from young populations to parasitic worms, I believe that the African nations simply learned from previous experience and were well prepared to react quickly, and with more remote communities they have sidestepped the issues that affected major developed nations. I recall a friend from Africa saying once that whenever something bad happens in Africa, it’s the fault of Africa. However, whenever something goes right in Africa, it’s just luck or a miracle rather than a sign of any success on Africa’s part. I however believe in giving credit where credit is due. We are proud to watch the nations of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Mauritius, Namibia and Egypt really stepping up to the plate, having been awarded the WTTC Safe Travel Stamp in recognition of their implementation of global, standardised health and hygiene protocols – meeting the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. This certainly was not by luck! Bench Africa looks forward to welcoming tourists back to Africa. It is, after all already set up perfectly for post-pandemic travel; open spaces, low population density and well-practised safety protocols make visiting Africa a perfect proposition. Most importantly, the very reason we return to Africa still remains. The safari experience is as amazing as it ever was and that hasn’t changed since the human world shut down. As most other destinations are frantically making changes, rethinking how they do things and offering alternatives to their core attractions, Africa is already the perfect set up. After all, an elephant is an elephant, whether or not you are wearing a mask. We won’t be sanitising the leopards after each sighting. The lions will keep their distance. Back in March I likened the pandemic to a drought. I said that food would be scarce and that every day would be a challenge but that like most droughts, it would end and that the rains would wash away the dust. I still know that to be true. We at Bench Africa will be here to see it happen. We may be leaner, hungrier and a little irritated that the rain took so long, but we will be here. We hope you will be there with us. Onward we go. Let’s wait for the rain.
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