Best Helicopter Safari Tours & Excursions
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Best Helicopter Fly-In Adventures In Africa
Looking for something beyond your typical game drive safaris? Discover thrilling helicopter adventures through the most remote reaches of Africa, giving you a quick access to some of African secluded safari landscapes – an unforgettable experience.
From the remote peaks of Mount Kenya and the Crater Highlands of Tanzania to aerial views of the spectacular Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, our helicopter safaris give you limitless freedom and exclusive access to off-the-grid locations that would normally be challenging and time consuming to reach by ground.
Discover Luxury Excursions By Air
Wherever you want to be: Somewhere at a Cliff Edge, Sand Dune, Mountain Kenya Lakes, Volcanic Mountains, Game Reserves, Waterfalls, or Mighty Rivers. Whatever you want to Experience on a Heli safari: Cultural Nomadic Tribes, Great Migration Safari In Kenya and Tanzania, Witness Mountain Gorillas In Uganda, Taste Exquisite Food, or Endless Landscape Views. Wherever you want to Stay: Luxury Kenya Lodges, Fly Camping Adventures, Luxurious Tented Camps, or Luxury Beach Resorts. Whatever you want to Do: Watch Giraffe from the Back of a Horse, Ride Quad Bikes at Samburu Wilderness, Walk with Camels far from roads, or Mountain Climbing In Kenya and Tanzania.
Helicopter Safaris In Africa & What to Expect
Our private African helicopter tours give you the wings to explore Africa’s wildest, most spectacular and extreme locations. This total freedom will allow you to visit places inaccessible by land and untouched by most humans. Looking down on this vast wilderness from above offers an entirely new perspective. Hover over wildlife or touch down beside a turquoise pool for a refreshing swim. Take this once in a lifetime opportunity during your luxury fly-in safari holiday to see the wildest corners of the Africa.
Mixed Cultural Experiences
Discover East Africa’s culture in depth; the Maasai and Samburu in Kenya, Hadzabe tribe in Tanzania, and Ethiopia which has astonishing cultural diversity. Home to over 80 distinct ethnic groups – each with their own language, traditions and way of life – Ethiopia offers a living mosaic of customs that have endured for centuries; a crossroads of human culture and heritage.
Catch a glimpse of a Dassanech tribe Dimi ceremony – a coming-of-age ritual involving blessings for the elders, music, dance and communal feasting. Flying over the Omo Delta offered an incredible bird’s eye view of the Turkana people living on floating islands, adapting ingeniously to an ever-shifting waterlogged environment.
A Personalised Experience
Exclusive private guide-led immersive experiences. A privately chartered safari means you avoid the hassle of shared flights or crowded airports. We’re also able to customise flight paths and routes based on your personal interests – from geological sights to wildlife areas that are otherwise difficult to access by road – to create the ultimate bespoke African safari experience.
Mixed Cultural immersion
Discover East Africa’s culture in depth; the Maasai and Samburu in Kenya, Hadzabe tribe in Tanzania, and Ethiopia which has astonishing cultural diversity. Discover distinct ethnic groups, each with their own language, traditions and way of life – Discover Ethiopia’s medieval treasures, diverse landscapes, and cultural wonders on an extraordinary helicopter safari.
Epic Aerial Views
Experience Africa’s dramatic landscapes from above while enjoying the excitement and exhilaration of helicopter travel in an unforgettable add-on to your safari experience. Go on a helicopter experience for a couple of hours during a larger safari, or travel via helicopter throughout the whole trip.
Discover Highlands and Lakes
Glide over Lake Natron’s flamingo shores, the active Oldonyo Lengai volcano, and Laetoli’s ancient hominid footprints.
East Africa Highest Mountains
Soar around Mount Kenya’s iconic peaks, valleys, glaciers, and alpine lakes for a breathtaking aerial adventure.
Fly-In Between Safari Lodges
Helicopter flights from one camp, lodge, or private villa to another. We normally use fixed-wing bush flights on these transfers, and they are invariably scenic, but helicopters are ultra-convenient and equally fun.
Luxury Helicopter Flights Over Africa
Appreciate Africa’s limitless skies on exciting helicopter tours. As you take off and climb you can truly appreciate the enormity of the landscape below. And the pristine, filter-free beauty that still exists on Earth. It will inspire the storyteller in you, as you share a bird’s-eye view and become a natural witness to the perfect give-and-take balance of nature below. Get the rare opportunities to experience places fully appreciated only from those skies, to picnic on remote mountainsides, to look down at bomas and massive crocodiles weaving through watercourses and elephant clans pacing the savannah grasslands.
Best Helicopter Photographic Safaris
From the dust and wetlands of Amboseli National Park to the drama of the Great Migration in the Masai Mara – Discover aerial photographic safaris that are designed to get you as close to the action as possible and in the exact right place at the exact right time to get “the” shot! Take your wildlife photography skills to new heights with our small group professionally guided photo safaris. For photographers who dream in wide angles, textures, and abstract compositions, African helicopter aerial safaris offer an unmatched perspective over vast and varied landscapes. Designed for serious aerial enthusiasts and those seeking a high-end, one-of-a-kind photographic experience, these safaris take you above the crowd — quite literally.
Best Destinations for Helicopter Flights
Soar over Africa’s spectacular landscapes with scenic helicopter flights – the most thrilling and luxurious ways to experience the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife of Africa. See waterfalls, canyons, African mountains, and wild realms from the sky. Our helicopter safaris are bespoke and exclusive experiences where you’re led by your own private guide. Fly across Africa and explore the most remote and beautiful landscapes from the sky with helicopter safaris. These Heli-safaris in Kenya and Tanzania are truly humbling experiences.
Luxury Kenya Helicopter Safaris
Discover the best Kenya safaris excursions by Helicopters. Kenya boasts extraordinary landscapes, rich in wildlife and culture. Tailor-made Kenya helicopter safaris link the most exciting and breath-taking destinations, exploring mountains, lakes, deserts and forests along the way, following the most scenic routes and touching down wherever possible. Some of the best destinations where can you fly to in a helicopter in Kenya include the lakes of the Great Rift, the deserts of Northern Kenya, the Maasai Mara, Chyulu Hills, Samburu and Laikipia. With a collection of outstanding luxury safari lodges and safari camps, each unique in style and concept – Kenya offers the best Helicopter safari adventures.
Fly to Mount Kenya and Lake Turkana: Mount Kenya is easy to access, and you can touch down high up on the mountainside to tuck in to a spectacular picnic breakfast or lunch. If you wish to travel farther afield, you can visit the largest permanent desert lake in the world, Lake Turkana, to enjoy the breathtaking and otherworldly basalt outcrops and volcanic shores.
Watch in awe as the acres of savanna unfold before your eyes; watch as the herds of herbivores graze the grass as the savanna meets woodland, even forest, beautiful banks of indigenous trees alternately standing still and waving gently as you pass overhead. Suddenly the foliage thins and a river emerges, rushing through the park or reserve.
On Mount Kenya the first treat here is a hearty picnic breakfast while enjoying the fantastic views. Then, if you wish, you can while away a few hours fly-fishing on one of the tranquil lakes or tarns that adorn the mountain’s upper slopes.
After your visit to the majestic mountain, there’s the opportunity to fly to Lake Turkana. The largest permanent desert lake in the world, Turkana combines volcanic shores and basalt outcrops to astonishing effect! Turkana is where fish such as cichlids, and reptiles such as Nile crocs and turtles, live and thrive. There is plenteous birdlife too, including flamingos and cormorants, while the surrounding grasslands are home to small populations of lion, cheetah, gazelle, zebra, giraffe – and even the cushioned gerbil!
Lake Turkana is perfect for fishing and quad biking – and there’s even a hint of history, in the fossils of Homo habilis, a species of the Hominini tribe, that remain on the shores. Ancient rock art has also been discovered, on the south beach. And travellers keen on culture will relish taking some time to observe the Rendille people as they bring their livestock to drink here. In total, more than a quarter of a million tribespersons are dependent on the lake, so it’s a real privilege to visit this waterworld!
Luxury Tanzania Helicopter Tours
Truly capture the beauty of Tanzania on scenic helicopter adventures. Tanzania is a country with so much richness to offer, with the expansive Serengeti plains (the epitome of ‘safari’), and the magnificent and vast Ngorongoro Crater – which together support over 2 million wild animals and hosts the great wildebeest migration. This is one of the world’s most favoured places to visit on helicopter trips, giving you freedom to cover the remote distances, flying low to make the most of the stunning landscapes.
Enjoy staying in a collection of the best luxury Tanzania lodges and tented camps that African has to offer, our helicopter safaris also bring in some hidden and unexpected experiences, including the flamingo shoes of Lake Natron, the active mountain of Oldonyo Lengai, and the archeological site of Laetoli where earliest sign of mankind lies in the form of hominid footprints.
Circle the top of Mt Meru before descending to the eastern Rift Valley wall passing Monduli District and flying through Burko Mountain canyon. Landing on the grassy slopes of Losimingor, revel in breathtaking views of Lake Manyara beyond whilst enjoying a well-deserved coffee break. We fly past Rift Valley’s most cherished treasures and circle the top of Mount Meru before continuing onto Empakaai Crater and Ol Doinyo Lengai. Following the striking shores of Lake Natron, you’ll also witness unparalleled views of Kenya’s northern border. This flight tour showcases the best of Tanzania with some of the country’s most admired views.
Luxury Uganda Helicopter Safari
Traveling Uganda by helicopter; home to an astounding 10% of the world’s biodiversity! This is where the East African savannah meets the West African jungle. Its fertile soils support an immense range of wildlife and bird life, and along with the primeval tropical forests and wildlife plains, one of the sources of the River Nile starts right here – in the permanently snow-capped Rwenzori mountains.
Visit Uganda by helicopter, and witness some of the most thrilling destinations to see from Kidepo Valley, Murchison Falls, Kazinga Channel, the National Parks of Kibale and Queen Elizabeth, and the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest – for close encounters with mountain gorilla, tree-climbing lions and swimming elephant.
Luxury Namibia Helicopter Tours
Vast deserts and mountains best characterise this incredible corner of Africa. Squeezed between the Kalahari and the South Atlantic, Namibia has wild seascapes, rugged mountains and lonely deserts. An amazing contrast of landscapes, colours and scenery – a photographer’s paradise, combined with ancient archaeological sites, amazing cultural diversity and unique desert-adapted wildlife.
Discover the most exciting destinations including Kunene River and Marienfluss Valley, Etosha National Park, the Skeleton Coast, Pelican Point, the Brandberg Mountain and Namib Rand Nature Reserve.
Luxury Ethiopia Helicopter Excursions
Discover an Ethiopia helicopter safari through a medieval world of historical treasures and Christian places of worship, little changed in thousands of years. Flying low through a range of altitudes that has given this country such ecological diversity – from the highest point on the Simiens to the Danakil Depression that lies below sea level. An amazing destination to explore by helicopter!
An adventure of a lifetime visiting the monolithic rock-hewn churches of Tigray and Lalibela. Discovering the endemic wildlife in the highlands, including Gelada Baboon, Walia Ibex and Ethiopian wolf. Touching down spontaneously to experience the most spectacular landscapes imaginable.
Luxury Botswana Helicopter Safaris
Fly over pools and lagoons in the Okavango Delta. Flat, open and full of Africa’s classic animals, Botswana is an ideal country for helicopter safaris. Botswana’s most famous destinations – the Okavango Delta, the Makgadikgadi Pans, the Kalahari – sit under clear skies for most of the year and it’s only in the air that you fully appreciate their enormous scale and the secrets that lie in them: long lines of migrating zebra, a huge herd of elephants, ten thousand flamingos.
Botswana’s long distances are also best negotiated by helicopter, and it is an attractive option to fly by helicopter throughout your whole itinerary. Scenic helicopter flights over the Delta’s landscape of islands, plains and lagoons perfectly illustrate its raw and spectacular beauty.
Fly over Okavango Delta; Take in the vast expanse of the Okavango Delta and its ever-present wildlife, fly over hundreds of thousands of greater flamingos in the Makgadikgadi Pans, and explore ancient rock art at the Tsodilo Hills. The Okavango Delta is an oasis in the Kalahari, but it can be difficult to appreciate its sheer extent from the ground. A helicopter tour gives you the rare opportunity to see the boundless open floodplains from up high, with their galaxy of termite mounds and islands, and the crystalline channels winding through it all.
Explore the Tsodilo Hills; A half-day helicopter excursion offers a unique opportunity to explore the Tsodilo Hills by air and on foot. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in the remote north-west of Botswana and is home to fascinating historical sites.
The hills have over 4,500 ancient rock paintings, some of which date back an estimated 26,000 years. The San Bushmen called these quartzite hills and caves home centuries ago, and there’s evidence of human activity dating back around 100,000 years.
Experience the Makgadikgadi Pans; The Makgadikgadi Pans offer dramatic scenes and endless horizons from ground level, but seeing them from the air provides an unforgettable perspective of some of the biggest salt pans in the world. The first of these is from January through to April. This is when thousands of wildebeest and zebra pass through the area on their annual migration. It’s simply incredible seeing wildlife in such numbers as they traverse the terrain below.
Luxury Chad Helicopter Safaris By Air
Sometimes called the ‘Soul of the Sahara’, Chad is a country for the intrepid traveller. With few roads and limited tourism infrastructure, of all the African countries it is one of the least visited. Its appeal lies in the fact that it is virtually unexplored, with rugged wild landscape of deserts and mountains. The multitude of habitats once supported the most unique and diverse wildlife species on the continent.
Luxury Zimbabwe Helicopter Trips
Hover above Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders, for breathtaking views of the cascading waters and surrounding landscapes. The famed Flight of Angels over the world’s most astonishing and grandest cataract, Victoria Falls. The flight takes its name from something David Livingstone—the first, albeit earthbound Westerner to see the Falls—wrote in 1855: “A scene so lovely it must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.” As we angelically helicopter over the falls, we’re treated to tectonically exciting views of one of Earth’s natural masterpieces.
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