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Drifters

Welcome to the official home of Drifters Adventure Tours – your ONLY choice when it comes to tours and safaris in Southern and East Africa. With a passion for Africa and all its beauty, the fauna and flora found in the various countries and a love for the people that make the continent unique we are committed to offering our guests a unique and unforgettable experience in Africa. With decades of experience in Africa and a fleet of custom-built safari vehicles, our staff are dedicated to showing you Africa and all its beauty!

decades of experience
in adventure travel
custom- built, state-of-
the-art safari vehicles
selection of camping and
accommodated tours
tours for every budget
ranging from 5 to 24 days
decades of experience
in adventure travel
custom- built, state-of-
the-art safari vehicles
selection of camping and
accommodated tours
tours for every budget
ranging from 5 to 24 days

What we

Offer

Drifters Adventure Tours is a South African based tour operator established in 1983. We offer adventure safari tours throughout Southern and East Africa to small groups of international travellers who want to experience Africa in a unique way. Our tours attract guests from all ages travelling alone or together that want to explore, discover and immerse themselves in the beauty, culture and history of Africa.

Adventure safari tours in unique destinations

We offer a wide range of Adventure Safari Tours throughout Southern and East Africa with regular scheduled departures throughout the year.

Camping, accommodated and private tours

All of our tours are inclined toward the interesting and often unique fauna and flora of Africa and for this reason we often leave the beaten track to explore remote areas where little or no familiar infrastructure exists. In these areas we generally camp, but all equipment is supplied, and no previous experience is necessary.

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Custom-built

Safari Trucks

All our tours use custom-built safari trucks that take a maximum of 16 passengers. The vehicles offers guests comfort and reliability with custom features like a fold-out kitchen, onboard fridge, individual client lockers and big windows that offer panoramic views.

Pattern

The original

Green Company

Drifters Adventure Tours has a proud history of conservation that spans over decades. Our commitment to sustainability is based on international guidelines and ensures that our businesses activities and services do not negatively impact the environment and the interests of our communities therein. We actively commit to a range of philanthropic activities that ensure the well being of Africa’s natural and cultural resources. This policy and guide has been designed to inspire and help lead us through different sustainability objectives within our operations and routines.

our

Responsibility

Being South African-owned and based, Drifters Adventure Tours has a company registered in every country in which we operate and we employ large numbers of local people in all those countries. Clients can therefore feel assured that a percentage of their tour fee is in fact going directly to all those local communities. Drifters Adventure Tours are also members of all major tourist associations and authorities, and are licensed and insured to operate throughout the region, thus ensuring accountability and providing clients with security and peace of mind.

experienced

Guides

Drifters Adventure Tours only employ the best full-time guides to run our safari tours. Our staff are dedicated, experienced, adventurous and know how to have a good time. Guiding for Drifters Adventure Tours is an extremely rewarding and challenging experience – which means that our guides stay with us for a long time – they are part of the family, and they live the ethos of Drifters Adventure Tours.

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Explore Africa
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We had an unforgettable tour! The lodges were all fantastic with very nice, friendly people. We saw so much on the game drives, thanks to the game driver/guide Mac! Because of all these people and the nature, Drifters and Botswana have taken a big place in our hearts!

16 Day Botswana AccommodatedJan and Jannie, Netherlands
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“I really liked the tour and Steven was a great guide who helped us out on everything. Without him the tour would have been completely different. Big thanks & appreciation to him.”

16 Day Botswana CampingLisa, Germany
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“Many thanks for making sure there were gluten free options available at all times. I did not expect this to be so well organised. I would love to travel with Drifters again.”

24 Day Cape Town to Vic FallsClaudia, Germany
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“We had a great time for the few days we were there. Our guide was helpful, friendly and gave great information. The tour delivered us everything we were promised.”

5 Day KrugerArnold, Netherlands
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“This tour was great fun with a good group of adventurous people. This tour was better than I expected. Rafael was a wonderful guide and he made our trip so enjoyable, thanks for the great memories.”

24 Day Cape Town to Vic Falls AccommodatedIrene, Australia
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”The tour was great and our guide was even better. Ed was not only a guide but a driver and a cook as well. We will definitely book again.”

12 Day Kenya Tanzania TourMathew and Susan, Switzerland
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”Amazing! Thank you! We appreciate accommodation for vegetarians.”

16 Day Botswana CampingJackie, USA
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”Fantastic tour with fantastic guide driver cook, Christopher. We saw soo much. I will remember this trip till the end of my days with stories to tell my grandchildren.”

24 Day Cape Town to Johannesburg via Vic FallsMyriam, Germany
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”Thanks again for the wonderful Southern Circle tour!! we really enjoyed it. Thanks Greg, you’re a TOP GUIDE!”

24 Day Cape Town to Vic FallsGlenn and Tamara, USA
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”We would just like to say thank you so much for a fantastic time we have had on our trip. Everything was great! We hope to return for another Safari in the future.”

5 Day KrugerHoward and Margie, UK
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”The whole experience was amazing and an awesome adventure. In these 24 days we visited South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe which was amazing and whole group made it just better.”

24 Day Cape Town to Johannesburg via Vic FallsChristian, Germany