Uncharted Outposts

Our singular mission is to make each and every trip that we design the most magical, inspiring and life changing experience for you – it’s as simple as that!   We believe in “truth in travel.” We believe that preserving our planet is a necessity not a right, we can all make a difference!

Traveling in Uncharted Style:

From our first days offering custom travel in Africa, we have grown to become the leading provider of custom exotic travel services for discriminating travelers destined for Africa, Australasia and the Americas. Don’t be fooled by the mass-market, large corporate mega resort companies that spend millions of dollars on advertising. The truly unique and interesting properties are the “best kept secrets in travel” and Uncharted Outposts is the best resource to find these secrets and to arrange your travel to them.

Creative & Exceptionally Well Executed Travel:

Throughout our history we have established a reputation for creative and exceptionally well executed travel experiences. Our clients include individuals, families and private groups. As the nation’s premier tour operator specializing in Africa’s small, independently owned Safari Camps & Lodges, we can state with confidence that no other company can offer you the depth of knowledge, the flexibility, and the regional insight that you’ll find at Uncharted Outposts.

We’ve been Around a Long Time:

Uncharted Outposts is a USA-based, brick & mortar tour operator dedicated to helping discerning independent travelers find and book exciting and unusual places to stay in some of the world’s most beautiful, remote and fascinating locations. Our site features properties that we have been doing business with for many years (some since 1972) as well as a growing collection of our favorite small hotels, guesthouses, retreats, eco-lodges, private rental properties and unforgettable travel experiences. Most of the properties we have personally visited and have given you our honest and professional opinion as well as the feedback from our clients. We’ve included extensive slideshows of each property and of each itinerary to help you visualize the place and the experience. Each place is unique in some way, whether in its design, its natural setting, its owners or the activities offered. From exotic safari camps to romantic island outposts, we have put together a genuinely fascinating and eclectic range of properties and itineraries.

The Journey Uncharted:

Whether it is stalking white rhino on one of the world’s most famous rhino conservancies in East Africa, hightailing it down a country road in Australia in hot pursuit of roos or leaping like James Bond from a luxury yacht into the ocean in search of hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos islands, every trip we design for our Uncharted guests oozes adventure.

Honeymoons: Our team of amazing consultants (hopeless romantics) will make sure that no detail is overlooked. They will brilliantly steer you far away from places that attract squawking kids and make sure that there will be lots of unexpected surprises and trappings along the way - even for the wedding planner! Fly & Flop to our amazing collection of remote beach havens, where whiplashed sand beaches morph into mirages of ridiculously blue water, where grass huts are impossibly glam, the food fresh and delicious and the service sublime! This is honeymoon bliss pure and simple!

Private Guided Safaris: Private Mobile Safaris offer up a quintessential Safari camping experience. The camp can be moved every 3-4 days and offers Uncharted guests the opportunity to experience Africa as it was in the golden epoch of travel.  With one guide escorting you throughout, these Safaris are perfect for families traveling together or for a group of friends.  The camps are the ultimate in privacy.  Each day offers up a myriad of possibilities and experiences and allows you to be completely immersed in seclusion and splendor.  Each day is yours - you get to decide the pace of each day along with the expertise of your guide. Be as active and adventurous as you choose! 

Safari Chic: Our collection of private Lodges and Tented Camps captures the romantic in all of us. But it is terribly important to us that we stress that our core principles are unchanged. These properties are still independently owned and operated, intimate and personal, located on private land, with an unwavering commitment to empowering the local communities and preserving the wildlife. Incredibly alluring camps and lodges in seemingly impossible to get to locations are the very reason why our trips are such a hit with our Uncharted guests

Safari with Kids: Africa is stunning to all of us but watching our children or grandchildren gaze for the first time at a baby giraffe or a massive black-maned lion - there is simply no greater pleasure in life than being able to witness their wonder firsthand! Kenya's prolific wildlife, vibrant cultures and boutique camps make it an ideal destination for all ages, sizes and interests. Kenya’s stunning green hills, vast savannas and high desert plains boast something for everyone and evoke the Africa of a bygone era. Picture warriors swathed in robes of red and painted ochre, magical camps plunked in the middle of nowhere and Kilimanjaro – the throne of Africa perched in a golden ocean of savannah. This is the Africa of the "Lion King" and of "Out of Africa," a veritable wilderness kingdom for kids from 2-92!