“I did all of my reservations through a US operator, only to realise on arrival that I had made the wrong decision. Overpaying was the least of my problems. Then I found LIME. I'll never hire anyone else.”
Elias TaravayMiami
LIME Travel
Africa, personally known.
Premium and luxury travel in East & Southern Africa, designed by people who know the destinations first hand.
Most African travel is sold by people who have read about it. We have lived in Cape Town and Durban and travelled the continent extensively — not on familiarisation trips, but running programmes.
It means we can tell you which lodge is worth its rate and which is trading on a reputation it earned five years ago. Which reserve is quiet in November.
Where the game viewing is genuinely better, and where it is merely closer to the airstrip.
We build to your budget, not ours.
Tell us what you want to spend and we will tell you honestly what it buys — where spending a little more genuinely changes the trip, and where it changes nothing but the invoice.
We work across four-star, five-star and luxury properties, so we are not steering you toward one price point. Some four-star lodges sit in better game areas than places charging three times as much. Knowing where that is true is most of what we are for.
If your budget is better spent on three exceptional nights than six ordinary ones, we will say so.
We do not offer package tours. Every journey is designed individually.
Find your experience
Start dreaming.
Cape Town & Winelands
City. Ocean. Wine. Extraordinary food.
Garden Route
Forest, coast and small towns east of Cape Town.
Kruger & Big Five Reserves
Big-game country, from open park to private concession.
KwaZulu-Natal & Drakensberg
Mountains, coastline and Zulu heritage on one route.
Rovos Rail
Southern Africa by classic rail.
Victoria Falls
The Zambezi at full volume, from either bank.
Kenya & Masai Mara
Open plains and predator density that rewards patience.
Tanzania / Serengeti & Zanzibar
Migration routes, then the Indian Ocean.
Botswana & Okavango Delta
Water, islands and low-density concessions.
Namibia
Desert, distance and light.
Zambia
Walking safaris and camps that stay small.
Zimbabwe
Wilderness areas with real guiding depth.
How LIME works
One person, start to finish
The same person from your first enquiry until you are home. Not a booking desk.
No lodge-group ties
Independent of every lodge and hotel group. What we put in front of you is what we would book ourselves.
Reachable
While you are travelling, out of hours, in four languages.
Small by design
A limited number of journeys a year, so each one gets real attention.
“Our exclusive operator for South Africa — for many reasons, but above all the excellence of their people.”
Marta MarcosETNO Point Travel, Buenos Aires