Indigo Safaris are experts in bespoke and package travel in Africa. Founder Christopher Bartlett fell in love with Africa on a trip to Namibia in 1997 and after numerous visits to southern Africa, moved to KwaZulu Natal in 2005 and became a safari field guide and underwater guide. When he combined these two new passions with his photography and writing skills and started doing assignments in East Africa for diving magazines, he had a great opportunity to continue building his destination knowledge. In 2009 he had to return to the UK for family reasons, and ended up combining his knowledge and love of Africa and organisational skills to help other people discover Africa. Indigo Safaris was born. Christopher spends at least three months a year in Africa, inspecting lodges and camps, checking out reserves and dive sites. He also spends six weeks a year on Dominica, leading Sperm Whale in-water encounters, and six weeks a year leading tours to the Papua New Guinea highlands and Sepik regions. In recent years, he has started spending time in Mexico too, leading trips to swim with megafauna such as Orcas, a variety of whale and dolphin soecies, sea lions and fur seals, and for the Mexican Sardine Run.
In 2015, Christopher met Ines Moosmann on an educational in Uganda, and recognised the consummate professional in her, and asked her to become his Senior Safari Consultant. Ines has worked in the travel and safari business for sixteen years and is an amazing source of knowledge on lodges and camps. She has an in-depth knowledge of Africa, and experience in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, The Philippines, The Maldives, India and Australia too. German as her mother tongue, and she is a qualified yoga teacher to boot. In February 2018, she took on the role of Sales & Product Manager and in early 2021 became a company Director, still responsible for Sales and Product.
Matthew O'Brien joined us in 2019. Formerly a guide in Namibia and Botswana, and native to South Africa, his southern Africa safari knowledge is exemplary. Matthew loves to write and share his passion in his contact with clients. Matthew is now our Africa team leader.
In May 2022, Kerry.
