Ultimate Vacation: Journey Through Africa From Cape Town to the Maasai Mara

The ancient Romans always used to say, ‘From Africa, always something new.’ Nothing’s changed. For the intrepid traveler, Africa promises new stimulation to the soul.

The journey begins when you touch down at the international airport in Cape Town. First stop is a hotel in the Victoria and Albert waterfront, a working harbor with top end restaurants, juggling entertainers, and flea market wares.

Next stop of your journey would be the cable car to the top of Table Mountain where you would view Table Bay from all points. Thereafter, a day spent journeying through the wine route, sipping some of the best pinotages and cabernets in the world, would be followed by an evening swim on Clifton beach.

In the morning, you would board a Cessna 210 to fly to Namibia, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s latest holiday destination! You would fly over the Namib Desert to land at Swakopmund. Here Herero women in their nineteenth century attire mingle with fishermen, miners, game rangers, and summer visitors. The town frequently has a mist over it and the long steeples of Bavarian architecture give it a haunting feeling. For a space age experience, visit the ‘Moon Landscape’ a few miles outside Swakopmund. The place is typical of a Journey through Africa where everything is so strange as to be on another planet.

Before leaving Namibia, fly alongside the Skeleton Coast, home of alluvial diamonds, shipwrecks and sharks. It has an eerie feeling to it and, not for nothing, did it gain its reputation of death for those unfortunate enough to be swept out to sea or lost amongst its barren dunes.

Then cross over to Zambia and visit the mighty Victoria Falls, a world heritage site. The 'Vic' Falls are the largest (and most awesome) waterfalls in the world and well earns its name 'the water that thunders'.

From here, you would make your way to the international airport at Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, where you would wing your to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.