Maplazini is a specialist African safari brand.
Maplazini brings together three complementary specialties under one name:
- Safari Concierge – Curating bespoke journeys and unforgettable safari experiences across Africa.
- Safari Collection – Creating premium apparel and accessories inspired by life in the African wilderness.
- Safari Management & Advisory – Providing lodge and reserve owners with bespoke, Chartered Accountant-led financial and corporate leadership expertise. This gives independent hospitality businesses access to the calibre of financial insight and strategic guidance typically available only to larger hospitality groups.
Africa, curated. Style, considered. Expertise, trusted.
A safari curated for you, apparel built for the journey, and advisory built for those who own the business behind it — across Africa, with every signature location given equal standing.
On Safari
Closer to nature. Never far from comfort.
Our experiences are built to bring you nearer to the wild than most travellers ever get — without asking you to give up an ounce of comfort to do it. Engine off, glass in hand, watching giraffe and elephant move past at their own pace: this is the exact balance every Maplazini itinerary is designed around. Relaxed, unhurried, and quietly premium in every detail, so that all that's left for you to do is watch.
The Group
One journey, three touchpoints.
Concierge brings you to Africa. Collection dresses you for it. Advisory serves the owners and operators behind it. Each stands on its own — a traveller never needs apparel or advisory to enjoy a Maplazini safari.
Safari Concierge
For travellersCurated safari itineraries across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, tailored and quoted against our vetted network of lodges and ground operators.
Explore Concierge → 02 — PrepareSafari Collection
For travellers & enthusiastsCustom safari wear, designed for the field and finished for the flight home. Built for travellers, not tourists.
Explore Collection → 03 — AdviseSafari Management & Advisory
For owners, operators & investorsExecutive-calibre financial leadership, systems and governance expertise for lodges, reserves and operators — the capability larger hotel groups have in-house, made accessible across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Explore Advisory →01 · Maplazini Safaris — Safari Concierge
Africa, curated — one destination at a time.
We build the itinerary before we build the price. Tell us how you want to travel and we'll shortlist the lodges, guides and experiences worth your time across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia — with further destinations available by request. No single country is our flagship; each is curated on its own terms.
Consult
Tell us how you want to travel — pace, style, budget and who's coming with you.
Curate
We shortlist lodges and routing from our vetted partner network.
Confirm
A tailored quote, built around your itinerary — not the other way round.
Signature Country Packages
Five destinations. Equal standing.
One illustrative high-end package per country, to give a sense of pace and pairing. Every itinerary is tailored to you on consultation — routing, lodges, season and length will vary.
Classic Big Five game viewing paired with some of Africa's most exclusive private traversing and off-road tracking.
One of the world's great natural wonders, followed by Hwange's vast elephant herds and open savannah.
Water-borne safari through the Delta's private concessions, then Chobe's legendary elephant and predator density.
Etosha's floodlit waterholes against the otherworldly dunes and desert landscapes of the Namib.
The birthplace of the walking safari, paired with canoe safaris and game viewing along the Lower Zambezi.
Prices are illustrative minimums only, based on high-end establishments at typical rates, per person sharing, excluding international flights. All figures in US Dollars. Your actual itinerary — including lodges, season, length of stay and final pricing — is tailored specifically to you during a consultation with your Concierge advisor.
02 · Maplazini Safari Collection
Exclusively curated.
Distinctly African.
A premium apparel and accessories range inspired by Africa's iconic safari heritage. Every piece bearing the Maplazini name — from field shirts to the finishing accessories that complete a kit — is selected to reflect understated luxury, timeless craftsmanship and authentic adventure.
From the Signature Range
Weathered, embroidered and built for long days in the sun — one example from a wider headwear line.
From the Signature Range
Tailored, breathable and quietly branded — a glimpse of our everyday-bush shirting.
From the Signature Range
Field-worthy leather footwear finished with the same detail as the rest of the range.
The pieces shown here represent only a small selection of our offerings and do not reflect our complete collection. Rather than a conventional retail catalogue, we offer access to a carefully curated Signature Range, available exclusively through direct enquiry.
This approach ensures rarity, personal service, and a collection that remains refined, exclusive and intentionally limited.
03 · Maplazini Safari Management & Advisory
Boardroom-calibre expertise. Fluent in safari.
Larger hotel groups have finance, operations and revenue expertise sitting down the corridor. Independent lodges and reserves usually don't. Maplazini Safari Management & Advisory closes that gap — giving owners and operators access to the same calibre of executive expertise, embedded directly into how your property runs, drawn from people who understand both strategic financial leadership and the safari industry itself.
Financial Leadership & CFO Advisory
More than bookkeeping and tax — embedded financial leadership focused on where your business is going, not just where it's been. Engage us to run your finance function end-to-end, or bring in CFO-level thinking alongside your existing team: forecasting, pricing, capital decisions and margin strategy, shaped by people who have sat inside both strategic financial leadership and hospitality operations.
Systems, Controls & Operational Technology
The operating systems and control frameworks well-run hotel groups take for granted — reservations, stock, revenue integrity — adapted for the realities of a remote lodge or reserve, so nothing quietly leaks between the gate and the ledger.
People & Payroll Leadership
Corporate-grade people practices — payroll, contracts, performance — built by people who understand seasonal staffing, guide retention and the realities of running teams in remote locations, not a generic HR policy pack.
Shared & Fractional Ownership Administration
Specialist administration for timeshare and fractional-ownership schemes — allocations, levies and owner reporting — handled with the same rigour institutional property funds expect, applied to a lodge setting.
Governance, Compliance & Reporting
Board-level governance and regulatory oversight, including the conservation and community-funding accountability that reserves and wildlife enterprises are increasingly expected to demonstrate to partners, funders and authorities.
Why Choose Maplazini Advisory
Executive-calibre expertise, embedded in your business — led by a Chartered Accountant with multi-country strategic financial leadership and safari management experience, not a generic outsourced provider.
Choose your depth of involvement — from a fully outsourced finance function to CFO-level oversight working alongside your existing team.
Guided setup, then real-time monthly reporting — a professional service from onboarding onward.
Tailored, transparent engagement — built around your specific establishment, not a one-size template or a rate card.
Why One Group
Every division stands alone. Together, they compound.
No guest needs all three divisions — a traveller can book a safari and never buy a jacket or speak to Advisory. But behind the scenes, one group learning from every relationship makes each division sharper.
Inquiry
A traveller engages with a curated Africa itinerary.
ConciergeTrip Confirmed
Deposit paid, dates locked — the moment trust is highest.
ConciergeGear Up (Optional)
A traveller who wants it can add field-ready apparel ahead of departure.
CollectionLodge Relationships
Separately, our sourcing work builds trusted relationships with owners and operators.
AdvisoryReturn & Refer
Repeat trips and referrals — on whichever division a guest actually needs.
All DivisionsGet in touch
Tell us how you want
to see Africa.
One conversation, one point of contact, one tailored quote — no obligation.
General enquiries not covered above? Use "Talk to Us" — one form, straight to our team.
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