Day 1 - Gorongosa National Park

Welcome to Africa On arrival in Johannesburg International Airport, you will need to clear South African immigrations, collect your luggage and proceed through customs. Please go all the way through to the Arrivals Hall (don't go through to transfers), where you will be met by your Hills of Africa guide.

Your Hillls of Africa Travel guide will help you transfer to your Federal Air flight to Mozambique.

On arrival in Mozambique, your Hills of Africa Travel guide will greet and help you transfer to your shared, light aircraft charter flight to Explore Gorongosa.

Explore Gorongosa

The Explore Gorongosa experience is hosted from our exclusive seasonal tented bush camp - known to the inner circle as Explorers, or just "Our Camp".  The camp is situated in a beautiful private operational area within the Gorongosa National Park.  You can go out for a night or two to our light wilderness fly-camps, the Gorongosa SkyBeds where we will set up at a few stunning sites in and around the park.  These uniquie site options  include the Murombodzi waterfalls and on top of Mount Gorongosa. You are of course looked after in the wide-open embrace of our great team of Mozambican camp hands, with suitable reinforcements provided by our camp host and our professional safari guide (one of the region's finest).

Explorers Camp: Featuring a handful of spacious and quirky tented suites, Explorers is not your average bush camp. In fact, we hope you'll treat it as your home away from home, as long as you don't associate televisions, telephones, newspapers, recessions and screaming kids. Explorers is a simple place - a gentle haven of peace and space. A place based on our keep-it-supremely-friendly-and-simple recipe. Each suite has an alfresco 'en tent' bathroom comprising an eco-innovative waterless loo and a fantastic wash-in-the-wild shower designed to give you privacy and a feeling of freedom all at the same time. Enormous king-size doubles or extra-length twin single beds are available with snug down duvets and cotton linen and towels of highest quality.   The design of the camp is aimed  at having as much of it home-made as possible utilizing the resources of the region.  The eating and social area of the camp features an open-air library and lounge, as well as a spacious canvas tent for general use when the weather is not too friendly. Dining takes place pretty much anywhere it is requested with the focus on excellent taste and even better company. If one wishes to get away from the high energy pursuits of lounging, dining, sleeping or abluting, there are hammocks to swing in, trees to climb, and a campfire to muse over.

Gorongosa SkyBeds: If you have the time and inclination - three or seventeen nights at our camp works quite well with a night or two out and about using a light 'fly-camp' sited on secret big, tree-covered spots around our exclusive operating area within the park and elsewhere in the region. This fly-camp, the Gorongosa SkyBeds, is set up in keeping with the pioneering camps of old, providing very light yet comfortable temporary accommodation whilst the camp's inhabitants busy themselves messing about in the bush. The basics of great food, cold drinks and hot showers are taken care of by our excellent team. The "rooms" are actually simple mosquito-gauze bow tents housing a snug bed complete with down duvet and cotton linen. The ablutions are a shared hot bucket shower and a waterless eco-loo, and the dining and lounge area comprises a campfire with some comfy stools scattered around it. But as quickly as you can say paradise, you're lying in bed in the middle of a sweeping floodplain, under a canopy of stars, with only a thin layer of gauze and canvas between you and heaven. When camping on the summit of the Gorongosa Mountain, the Gorongosa SkyBeds are tailored to suit wet weather through the application of a light trekking bow tent. (It is advised if you are planning on climbing Mount Gorongosa, to bring wet weather gear - it is a rain-forest after all).

Accommodations: 1 x Luxury Tent on a fully inclusive basis for 4 nights

Day 5 - Benguerra Island

Today, you will take a charter flight back to Vilanculos.

On arrival, you will be met at Vilanculos Airport (VNX) and transferred by helicopter to beautiful Azura.

Azura

Azura offers a completely new level of luxury on the unique and incomparable Benguerra Island, within the Bazaruto National Park. A luxury eco-boutique retreat, Azura offers miles of pure white sand, tranquil turquoise seas, swaying palms, endless sunshine and star-studded nights. Exquisitely designed villas, private pools, superb cuisine, a feature African spa, watersports centre and unsurpassed levels of service that pander to your every need - Azura is all about you.

The accommodation comprises of 14 luxurious beach villas and one stylish two-bedroomed Presidential villa with large private pool, sitting and dining area and Jacuzzi. Every spacious villa is just a stones throw from the beach and features air conditioning, private butler service, double outdoor showers, huge bath, outdoor Sala for lazy afternoons, private sundeck for tanning beneath the palms and a sparkling infinity or plunge pool for cooling off. Nestled amidst the indigenous trees and bushes, each villa offers you your own private sanctuary for the ultimate in relaxation.

Accommodations: 1 x Beach Villa on a fully inclusive basis for 5 nights

Day 10 - Benguerra Island

Today you are transferred by helicopter to the Vilanculos Airport.

You will then be transferred to the airport for your flight to Johannesburg where you will to connect to your onward flights home.

Safe travels and we hope you have lived the Magic Of Africa.