When you’ve seen the best the world has to offer, you feel a sense of responsibility to make sure it’s preserved – both for future generations and for those who live within it today. That’s why Close Encounters has an ethical approach to creating travel tours. By understanding the African communities and the natural environments they live in, you can get closer to culture and wildlife than you’ve ever imagined!

We endeavour to create tours and use accommodation that directly help the communities you visit, using locally owned and run businesses, which support self development projects, and care for the land, wildlife and people.

So we hope you’ll feel comfortable with us when creating your own experience of Africa – you can read more about our policy on responsible travel here and of course, you can talk to us if you’d like to understand more about the way we work.

To see how much carbon you will be generating via emissions when you go on your holiday, please see the Carbon Emissions page and follow the links to the calculators.  If you want to off-set your emissions, there is an option on the calculator page to do this.

Follow the links on the left or contact us on 0844 415 0155 for a copy of our conservation itineraries or to find out about our own community project.

Responsible tours