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Family Holidays
Our team is full of family travellers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Couples Holidays
Our couple itineraries are paced perfectly for you to enjoy the very best a country has to offer whilst making sure you enjoy the quality time together you’re after.
Group Holidays
No matter what the size or the occasion, we’re well versed in taking larger groups of people away for those special adventures.
Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
Multi Generational Trips
From very small to very big. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and our multi-generational holidays are perfectly designed to tick the boxes for the whole family.
Anniversary Trips
Whether you’re celebrating as a couple, or across multiple generations, our anniversary trips are crafted around the milestone – and the people sharing it.
Travel With Teens
This is a list of the very best places to travel with teenagers – one that’s crammed with bragging rights (for them) and bonding moments (for you).
Grown Up Family Holidays
As your children become adults, your family trips are also due to change and grow. These are our favourite trips for you and your grown up family.
Solo Holidays
Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
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Safari Holidays
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
Remote Destinations
We’ve chosen these experiences, destinations and adventures to bring you closer to the great outdoors. This is your ticket to our wonderful world.
Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food Holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse Holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
The Pursuit of Feeling
From impassioned and emotive journeys, to podcasts and our Feelings Engine, you’ll find something to move you and something to soothe you. We want to fire your heart and provide food for your soul.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
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Rugged, eerily isolated and home to wonderful wildlife, Namibia is a mystifying land.
A land of serene isolation and intrigue, a tailormade holiday in Namibia is a lesson in the art of slow travel, as you venture across the bright red dunes of Sossusvlei to reach the shipwreck-strewn beaches of the Skeleton Coast. A place so remote and treacherous it comes as no surprise the Skeleton Coast has seen many ships and sailors have surrender in the wake of its strong currents and thick fog. However, it’s not all about desolate landscapes in Namibia. In Etosha National Park head out with expert guides like Deon to track elephants and rhino and in NamibRand Nature Park gaze to your hearts content at the Milky Way. With many areas of Namibia still under wraps, trust us to take you there and beyond.
As ever, if you can’t see it here then we can still plan it for you.
The San peoples are one of the oldest surviving cultures of southern Africa. Over the decades, their culture has been endlessly speculated on (by everyone from anthropologists to filmmakers). But the best possible way to learn about their hunter-gatherer lifeway is to walk alongside them – right into the heart of Namibia’s Kalahari. Here, the Bushmen will be your guides through an ancient ‘curriculum’ of essential survival skills; teaching you the traditional art of bow-making, tracking, foraging, cooking, healing, and botany. This is an adventure like no other.
Namibia, a country on the South Atlantic coast of Africa, is full of raw beauty and untamed wilderness. We can think of few places as remote and rugged as this country’s peaks and valleys, deserts and coastline, but Namibia is a spectacle of hand-crafted resorts and stark scenery. For an insider experience of these vast landscapes and surreal vistas, a tailormade tour of Namibia ensures you’ll experience all the magic and mystic this land supplies.
Namibia isn’t at the top of everyone’s list when it comes to a quintessential African safari experience, making it all the more intimate and unique for those craving something off the beaten path. A contrast of mountains and deserts draped in brown and golden hues, a luxury safari in Namibia will see guests tracking endangered rhinos, desert-adapted elephants, and families of giraffes by foot, 4×4, and of course, private plane.
As if transported to an entirely different planet, the scenery of Namibia is a captivating expanse of contradictory landscapes that don’t quite fit the standard mold of planet earth. Sossusvlei Desert, one of the driest places in the world, is a sand dune oasis that shape-shifts depending on the winds and seasons. The eery Skeleton Coast is famed for the long-surviving evidence of several shipwrecks. Perfect for the nomadic and the adventurous, Namibia will transport you to places unfamiliar and unique.
A national park that makes others pale in comparison, Etosha is a dramatic landscape peppered with exotic animals and active watering holes. Private lodges are found within the park and just outside of its borders, were equally as vibrant private reserves showcase similar chalets and safari opportunities. Embrace the lack of crowds and unearth the arid salt pans and Savannah Woodland on private game drives and exclusive excursions.
Skeleton Coast National Park
‘The Land God Made in Anger’.
Notorious for its rough seas, rocky shallows and thick fog, Namibia’s Skeleton Coast has claimed the lives of many sailors for years. Bleak, beautiful and scattered with shipwrecks, travelling to this remote part of the country is a surreal experience and one to be done alongside expert guides who know the terrain well. In between spotting seal colonies at Möwe Bay and uncovering the rusty remains of Suiderkus shipwreck, wind your way to Shipwreck Lodge – the clue’s in the name – for a night’s stay at the first hotel to have graced this infamous coastline.
Hoanib Valley Camp
Where monstrous mountains meet sweeping dunes.
Tucked away in Kaokoland in Namibia’s north-west, lies the charmingly remote and intimate Hoanib Valley Camp. Home to just six spacious tents, it’s a place where you can be at one with nature. Spend your days beside researchers as you track endangered rhinos and monitor desert-adapted giraffes and fill your afternoons with local Herero people as you learn about their culture. In the evenings at Hoanib Valley Camp, dine beneath the stars with a freshly prepared meal before gathering around the campfire with your loved ones to exchange stories.
Hartmann Valley
Check into one of Southern Africa’s most remote camps.
Home to the Himba, one of the last true nomads in Africa, the Hartmann Valley in north-west Namibia is stunningly remote. Blending seamlessly into the Hatmann’s moonscape along the banks of the Kunene River, Serra Cafema Lodge is where we choose to lay our head. Accessible by aircraft only, at Serra Cafema it’s easy to feel worlds away as you listen to the rapids below, watch mountain zebra ahead and sun yourself on the terrace.
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Hoanib Valley Camp
Ongava Lodge
May to October is Namibia’s dry season and the best time for wildlife. The desert landscapes are at their most dramatic, water sources concentrate game around waterholes in Etosha, and temperatures are cooler — particularly in the north. November to April brings occasional rains, greener landscapes, and fewer visitors, but some roads become impassable. For stargazing in NamibRand or walking with the San Bushmen, the dry season is the right call. For self-drive itineraries, May through September gives the best conditions on unsealed roads.
Ten to fourteen nights is the sweet spot. Namibia is large — getting between Sossusvlei, the Skeleton Coast, Damaraland, Etosha, and the far northwest takes time, and rushing it defeats the purpose. A ten-night itinerary gives you two or three meaningful stops. Fourteen nights allows a self-drive from south to north with a private plane leg across the Skeleton Coast. Seven nights is possible for a focused single-region trip, typically the Sossusvlei dunes plus Etosha. Black Tomato designs Namibia itineraries around what you actually want to see, not a fixed circuit.
Namibia is one of Africa’s best self-drive safari destinations. Roads are well-maintained, the distances are navigable, and driving yourself through the landscape is part of what makes Namibia feel different to other safari countries. A 4×4 is required for most of the route. Black Tomato provides fully supported self-drive itineraries — your vehicle and route are prepared in detail, accommodation is pre-booked, and our team is reachable throughout. You have the freedom of the road without the planning burden.
Zambia and Zimbabwe are natural pairings — both share southern Africa’s routing and offer a strong contrast to Namibia’s desert landscapes. Victoria Falls in Zambia or the Zambezi River lodge camps in Zimbabwe make compelling additions to a Namibia trip, and the combination typically runs 12 to 16 nights. South Africa is another option, either Kruger for Big Five safari contrast or Cape Town for a city-and-wine finale. Black Tomato designs all combinations as a single itinerary.
The cost of a luxury Namibia safari with Black Tomato varies based on the itinerary length, the lodges included, and whether you fly between regions by private charter or self-drive. Private air safaris sit at the higher end; self-drive itineraries offer the same quality of lodge accommodation at a different price point. For an accurate quote built around your specific travel dates and preferences, submit an enquiry and one of our Africa specialists will come back to you.
