# /safaribookings/tours/search

`POST /api/safaribookings/tours/search`

Price: 20 credits

Search SafariBookings safari tours by destination and the full set of marketplace filters: comfort level, private or shared, camping or lodge, specialized themes such as gorilla tracking or photographic safaris, airport transfer and customizable itineraries, operator office country, departure city, minimum operator rating, a specific operator, a specific lodge or camp, price range and tour length. Each tour comes back with its title, duration, price range in the requested currency, countries, comfort and accommodation type, day-by-day route stops and the offering tour operator with its rating and review count.

## How to use it

Search African safari tours on SafariBookings. destination is a country/park/region slug (kenya, tanzania, serengeti, masai-mara, okavango-delta). Filters: comfort (luxury_plus/luxury/mid_range/budget), tour_type (private/shared), safari_style (camping or lodge_hotel_or_tented_camp), specialized (gorilla_tracking, photographic, family, honeymoon, birding, self_drive, ...), features, operator_countries, departure_cities, min_operator_rating 1-5, operator id, accommodation (lodge/camp name or id), min_price/max_price, min_days/max_days and currency. Each result has id, tour_title, duration_days, duration_label, price_from/price_to, currency, countries, tour_type, max_pax, comfort, accommodation_type, route, operator, badges, image and tour_url.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `destination` (string) — Country, park or region slug to search within, e.g. kenya, serengeti or masai-mara (default: ""; examples: "kenya", "serengeti")
- `comfort` (array) — Comfort levels to include (default: []; one of: "luxury_plus", "luxury", "mid_range", "budget")
- `tour_type` (array) — Private or shared tours (default: []; one of: "private", "shared")
- `safari_style` (array) — Accommodation style of the safari (default: []; one of: "lodge_hotel_or_tented_camp", "camping")
- `specialized` (array) — Specialized tour themes to include (default: []; one of: "fly_in", "family", "beach", "honeymoon", "gorilla_tracking", "photographic", "climbing", "walking", "self_drive", "guided_self_drive", "chimp_tracking", "overland", "mountain_bike", "canoe", "horseback", "birding", "disabled_access", "golf_and_wildlife", "yoga")
- `features` (array) — Additional tour features (default: []; one of: "airport_transfer_included", "itinerary_can_be_customized")
- `operator_countries` (array) — Countries the tour operator has an office in (default: []; one of: "australia", "belgium", "botswana", "brazil", "canada", "comoros", "denmark", "eswatini", "ethiopia", "france", "germany", "greece", "india", "ireland", "italy", "kenya", "lesotho", "madagascar", "malawi", "mauritius", "mayotte", "mozambique", "namibia", "netherlands", "new_zealand", "nigeria", "norway", "portugal", "reunion", "russia", "rwanda", "seychelles", "singapore", "south_africa", "spain", "sweden", "switzerland", "tanzania", "uganda", "united_arab_emirates", "united_kingdom", "usa", "zambia", "zimbabwe")
- `departure_cities` (array) — Cities the tour departs from (default: []; one of: "addis_ababa", "antananarivo", "arba_minch", "arusha", "blantyre", "brazzaville", "bujumbura", "bulawayo", "cape_town", "dar_es_salaam", "diani_beach", "durban", "entebbe", "gondar", "gqeberha", "harare", "hazyview", "hoedspruit", "iringa", "jinka", "johannesburg", "kabale", "kampala", "kasane", "kigali", "kigoma", "kisoro", "lalibela", "lilongwe", "livingstone", "lusaka", "malindi", "maputo", "maun", "mbombela", "mekele", "mfuwe", "mombasa", "morondava", "moshi", "mwanza", "nairobi", "nosy_be", "semara", "skukuza", "upington", "victoria_falls", "windhoek", "zanzibar")
- `min_operator_rating` (integer, nullable) — Only tours from operators rated this many stars or higher (min: 1; max: 5)
- `operator` (string) — Only tours offered by this operator, given as its id or profile URL (default: "")
- `accommodation` (string) — Only tours staying at this lodge, camp or hotel, given as its name or id (default: ""; examples: "Kibale Forest Lodge", "2097")
- `min_price` (number, nullable) — Lowest price per person in the selected currency (min: 0)
- `max_price` (number, nullable) — Highest price per person in the selected currency (min: 0)
- `min_days` (number, nullable) — Shortest tour length in days (min: 0)
- `max_days` (number, nullable) — Longest tour length in days (min: 0)
- `currency` (string) — Currency prices are returned in (default: "USD"; one of: "USD", "CAD", "EUR", "CHF", "CZK", "DKK", "GBP", "HUF", "ISK", "NOK", "PLN", "RON", "RUB", "SEK", "TRY", "AUD", "NZD", "AED", "CNY", "HKD", "ILS", "INR", "JPY", "KRW", "KWD", "MYR", "QAR", "SAR", "SGD", "TWD", "EGP", "NAD", "ZAR", "ARS", "BRL", "CLP", "MXN")
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of tours to return (min: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "SafaribookingsTourCard")
- `id` (string, required)
- `tour_title` (string, required)
- `duration_days` (integer, nullable)
- `duration_label` (string, nullable)
- `price_from` (number, nullable)
- `price_to` (number, nullable)
- `currency` (string, nullable)
- `countries` (array) (default: [])
- `tour_type` (string, nullable)
- `max_pax` (integer, nullable)
- `comfort` (string, nullable)
- `accommodation_type` (string, nullable)
- `route` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SafaribookingsRouteStop")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `tag` (string, nullable)
- `operator` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SafaribookingsTourOperatorRef")
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `rating` (number, nullable)
  - `review_count` (integer, nullable)
  - `image` (string, nullable)
  - `office_countries` (array) (default: [])
    - `@type` (string) (default: "SafaribookingsCountryRef")
    - `name` (string, nullable)
    - `code` (string, nullable)
- `badges` (array) (default: [])
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `tour_url` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

Destination slug does not exist on SafariBookings

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.