Oloi Shorua
Private African journeys, designed from Dubai.
Africa, understood through time. Designed privately. Delivered with precision.
Oloi Shorua is a Dubai-based specialist in private, tailor-made African safaris and journeys across East and Southern Africa.
We do not operate desert day-trip safaris. Every journey is a multi-day, private safari across East and Southern Africa, planned around the traveller rather than a fixed excursion.
We plan journeys for travellers from India, the USA, the UK, wider Europe, Singapore, West Africa, South Africa, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Central America and across the GCC.
Why Choose Oloi Shorua
Every safari is personally designed by the founder — not handed to a sales team working from a template. The same person who plans your journey remains accountable for it while you’re travelling, checking in directly rather than routing you through account managers. That directness is structural, not a service promise: Oloi Shorua works with a limited number of journeys at any time specifically so this remains possible.
Oloi Shorua designs private African safaris across East and Southern Africa for travellers who value time, access and considered pacing. We are founder-led, Dubai-based and operate through long-standing relationships with Africa’s leading conservancies, private reserves and guiding teams.
We do not sell packages. Instead, every journey begins with a conversation and develops around season, geography and the natural rhythm of each region.
East Africa
Kenya and Tanzania form the foundation of classic safari travel. Kenya’s private conservancies — the Masai Mara, Laikipia, Samburu and the coast — deliver wildlife depth and guiding quality that the national park model cannot replicate. Furthermore, Tanzania offers the Serengeti at scale, the Ngorongoro Crater and the remote southern circuits of Ruaha and Nyerere. Zanzibar, additionally, closes the journey at the Indian Ocean.
Uganda and Rwanda, moreover, extend East Africa into highland gorilla territory. The encounter here is intimate rather than panoramic. The landscape is consequently forest rather than open grassland — a different safari register entirely.
East Africa Safaris — Kenya Safari Guide — Tanzania Safari Guide
Southern Africa
Botswana’s Okavango Delta and Chobe deliver the continent’s most exclusive safari environments through deliberate low-volume policy. South Africa’s Sabi Sand produces leopard sightings of a quality available nowhere else in Africa. Additionally, its malaria-free reserves open serious wildlife travel to families and health-sensitive travellers. Zambia’s Luangwa Valley is where walking safaris originated and where they remain most compelling. Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools and Victoria Falls therefore complete a regional circuit of extraordinary range.
Namibia, in contrast, occupies its own category — desert landscape, self-drive possibility and a silence distinct from anything in East Africa.
Southern Africa Safaris — South Africa Safari Guide
What Our Travellers Say
23 verified reviews — 18 on Google, 4 on Trustpilot, 1 on SafariBookings. We do not actively solicit reviews. Many clients value discretion, and much of the feedback we receive comes directly and privately rather than on public platforms — these verified reviews reflect only a portion of the relationships we’ve built.
How We Design Journeys
Every safari begins with the same foundational questions — how much time, which landscapes, how much movement versus depth, one country or several. From those answers, geography and season consequently narrow the options. The specific properties and guides follow from location within the ecosystem and the quality of fieldcraft on the ground.
We work with a limited number of journeys at any time. As a result, planning remains attentive and our relationships across East and Southern Africa stay current enough to make real access possible.
Safari costs vary by season, destination, lodge category, private guiding and internal flights. As a planning reference, privately designed luxury safaris commonly begin from approximately $800–$5,000 per person, per day, with exceptional camps and private-use arrangements considerably higher. Because every safari is fully customised, exactly what’s included — guiding, park and conservancy fees, internal flights, transfers, and pre- and post-safari stays — varies by itinerary and is confirmed during planning, not fixed in advance.
The Complete Guide to African Safaris — African Safari Guide — Safari Collection
Arabia by Oloi Shorua
Our Arabia platform designs journeys across the Arabian Peninsula — AlUla and the Nabataean world, the Saudi Red Sea coast, the Omani Hajar Mountains, the UAE interior, Wadi Rum and the Jordan circuit. For travellers who move between Africa and Arabia, both platforms operate under the same founding principles of pacing, depth and founder-led design.
If you are considering Africa and prefer a direct, informed approach to planning, we would be pleased to begin with a conversation.