International Photo Safaris
Exclusive Adventure Tours

Talking Drum Safari Company welcomes you...Our many and varied travel services provide alternatives and options for the budget-minded individual, dream trip clientele, small groups or individuals in large groups. Careful planning, safety, and optimum enjoyment are among our immediate and primary concerns for all of our guests.

African photo safaris can be custom designed to suit your many unique and personal preferences. On safari, you will experience the vast vistas, massive herds on the almost limitless plains, become a part of the incomparable wildlife scenarios as you move from game preserve to game preserve “sensing” Mother Nature intimately at her best, in full color, and regal splendor in the comfort, safety, and excitement of your own safari environment. Options include riding the world’s largest hot air balloon on a pre-dawn experience, to view the herds from a magnificent vantage and then being the honored guest at a lavish, champagne breakfast on the balloon’s landing site beneath a warming, African sun in full sight of the mighty world of the African flora and fauna.

Visits to Nairobi will permit you to feed giraffes from a second story vantage. Have dinner at the world famous Carnivore Restaurant where you will have opportunities to sample wild game, sample the many barbecued delicacies of the region, visit the home of Karen Blixen of “I Dreamed of Africa” fame, shop the many fascinating shops that offer a rich variety of African art and souvenirs. See Olgivie Gulch where Dr. Leakey found “Lucy.”

Stay at the renown Mt. Kenya Lodge, built by Hollywood star, William Holden where heads of state, and international celebrities have enjoyed the amenities of the rich and famous; and you will too. See the unbelievably beautiful Ngorogoro Crater where large collections of Africa’s big five can be seen. It has been suggested that the Garden of Eden was situated in this very Crater.

Extensions to your safari will allow you to actually visit the many exciting attractions of the African continent.

You can be whisked away on a never-to-be-forgotten tour of mystical China to witness ancient history up close and personally, view the many awe-inspiring vistas of exotic scenes in the remote pockets of the Middle Kingdom at your convenience while enjoying the best of Chinese cuisine, local luxuries, and the many wonders of this Shangri-La of modern times.

Design your own limitless dream vacation packages to sunny beaches, or colorful adventure tours to the ends of the world. These are all possibilities for you, and the Talking Drum Safari Company.

Talking Drum Safari Company * 7883 SE 15th Avenue * Portland, Oregon * 97202 * USA