Tour vehicle and guide
Khalanga Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 1-5 employees (Founded in 2016)
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $261 to $366 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Maria and husband | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A really MEMORABLE experience: incredibly talented guide and perfect organization!
We had a really MEMORABLE experience: everything was really PERFECT. Our guide (Shoes Matabula) found for us all the animals in the park and we could see all of them at short range. We could enjoy lions (including an albine male lion!!!), elephants, buffalos, giraffes, rhinoceros, leopard, hyenas, wild boars, zebras, gnus, waterbucks, impalas, steenbocks, vultures, kingfishers, secretary bird, guinea fowl, …. Shoes knows all the places that each animal likes, and he can also identify their tracks on the ground, to provide better location!!! The vehicle was new, and very comfortable: 3x3 seats, so everybody has an unobstructed view. Very important, the vehicle was very high, and each seat row was higher than the previous one, so everybody can have the perfect view seats (although we were in a private tour, which I definitively recommend). Everything was perfect (transfers, day planning, explanations on the animals, ….). Do not forget your binoculars, because even for short range they provide a better view!! We forgot ours, and Shoes was managed to get ones lent to us!!
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Email Philipp | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
An excellent tour in Kruger National Park with many animal sightings and a very experienced guide!
We did a full-day safari in Kruger National Park with Shoes. We were even lucky enough to be the only guests, so we had a private tour. We were picked up at our lodge in Hoedspruit about an hour earlier. Shoes is a very knowledgeable guide with great expertise about the animals and the park, and at the same time, he is super friendly and funny. It was a lot of fun being with him, we were able to ask many questions and enjoyed listening to him. On that day, we saw lions walking right in front of our car, as well as many young elephants, a herd of buffalos, zebras, giraffes, and much more.
We would highly recommend Shoes and Khalanga Safaris and were almost sad to have spent only one day in Kruger National Park.
Email Giorgia | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Professional, Passionate and Reliable
Cannot recommend this enough!
If you are a nature and animal lover, Shoes is your guy!
During our 4 days safari we have been taken by Shoes and we have enjoyed every moment!
The Kruger park itself is an incredible experience, and Shoes’s professionalism and expertise made it even better!
I will never forget the moments in the car waiting for nature to reward us (it never disappoint) and be able to see the most beautiful animals in their own environments.
Shoes responded to all our questions (a lot!) and it was very precious feeling his passion for his job!
Also, he cooked and took care of us in a very gentle and not intrusive way, super appreciate!
Thank you Shoes, until next time!
US
Email Kathy | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Khalanga Safaris delivers a positively unique and unforgettable experience experience.
Khalanga Safaris delivers everything you hope for in a touring adventure in a faraway land: responsive communication, value, quality, knowledge and passion, and an unforgettable experience. Our group of seven highly recommends this tour operator.
DE
Email Hanno | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Tour with a very experienced guide.
We had a fantastic Tour with a very experienced guide. He let us see so much and give very good explanations. We got the real bush feeling. Thanks a lot.
Hanno from Germany
Email Andreas Rubahn | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
excellent tour
Shoes is a very experienced tour guide , with an excellent knowledge about nature , animals and birds .
he is not doing that Ferrarie Rally’s like most of the other guides . The tour was focused on learning the tourist the African Nature and animals and to treat it with respect .
CH
Email Esra | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Authentic safari experience
The safari was amazing. The tour guides really knew their stuff and showed us all the big 5‘s and much more. We are really happy
NL
Email Annet Krijgsman-Louter | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Perfect organized safari with the best professional guides!
We booked a day safari tour for the third time with Khalanga and that' s because the trips where so good and so worth the money! If you send a mail fwith a qestion or something you get very soon response. The day before your excursion you get a reminder in your mail . The communication is very good and quick. You van be picked up would at our accomodation. The guide was there before the original pick up time so we can started earlier.
It was cold in the morning but there where warm poncho's / blankets for all of us.
Ismael ( our guide) asked what we want and what our wishes are. He told us a lot about Kruger, the animals and everything we want to know. We stay in the Kruger Park from the time that the gates open till closing time and see a lot of animals.
If we come again to Kruger we would definitely go again on safari with Khalanga!
BR
Email Thaisa Andreoli | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgetable experience
Since the begining, Shoes was always helpful and thoughtful with all my questions, even before I hired him. He managed to tailor the experience exactly to my needs and wishes.
During the days we spent on safari with him, he was very good at tracking the animals and determined to find not only the Big Five, but also other highly interesting animals, while sharing a lot of curiosities and knowledge of wild life and of Kruger park in general.
He is very positive, high energy and a fun person to be around, being on safari with him was always a pleasure.
If you are going to South Africa, Khalanga is your go to safari guide!
Ps.: I highly recommend that you let him cook you some of the local dishes of South Africa. We got to try bobotie, braai and other meals and they were all amazing!
CA
Email Peter G | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The most amazing safari guide - MUST BOOK
We were a group of 9 family and friends spending 4 days in Skukuza and 3 in Olifants Camp. We were absolutely thrilled by this safari - in large parts as a result of our amazing guide: Shoes Mathebula is the best!
Every step of the trip was perfect:
1. Planning: absolute professional, very responsive to emails and helpful when we booked him with easy and safe international payment options.
2. Flexible pickups at Skukuza Airport to transfer to Skukuza Camp (our group came in on 2 different flights).
3. And of course: the game drives! We saw more wildlife than in our wildest dreams. We also gained many fascinating insights. This was in no small part due to Shoes' expertise, easy going personality, dedication, knowledge, flexibility and enthusiasm to make us happy and show off 'his' Krueger Park. Tracking lions hunting, figuring out where they are by triangulating the direction monkeys in trees are looking towards, observing tracks on the road, ... Shoes added so much to these game drives - careful observations, interpretation of the signs, the patients, the excitement, the action. He is very knowledgable and informative and spots every animal, all while driving very safely.
One last comment: if you are contemplating the self-driving option you need to realize that the elevated view from the safari vehicle in combination with Shoes' expertise and explanations makes for a completely different safari experience. I would definitely opt for the latter and can enthusiastically recommend Shoes Mathebula, the owner of Khalanga Safaris.