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Elephant Herd Tours & Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2002)
- Member Of:
- SATSA & MISA
- Tour Types:
- Customizable private tours and fixed group tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $69 to $1,104 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email David | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
They made a once-in-a-lifetime trip as good as it could be!
Our 4-person group included my 97-year-old grandma who loves South Africa. We booked several tours with Elephant Herd and every one of them was a memorable, special experience, including our all-day private tour, our sunset safari, our trip to the Blyde River Canyon, and our walking safari. The guides were prompt, professional, knowledgeable, and extra attentive to my grandma. We recommend them to anyone!
Email Lisa | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An efficient, friendly and well organised company.
From when I first contacted Elephant Herd Tours I was impressed with how quickly they responded to my questions and made suggestions. This was our first trip to South Africa and we wanted to do as much as possible. We booked several safari tours and an all day Panorama tour. On every trip the guide arrived on time and was so friendly and knowledgable.
On the safaris we learnt so much about Kruger and the animals, and every effort was made to ensure we got the most out of the visit and saw as many animals as possible. On the Panorama tour we were lucky to have the guide all to ourselves and saw much of the beautiful scenery and sights of the area, as well as a visit to the Moholoholo animal rehab centre which was not only educational and heart warming, but it was sad to see how much harm man can do to the beautiful animals in the wild - a day not to be missed.
I can only thank the company for making our once in a lifetime holiday very special.
IL
Email Libby | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The company so as our guide (smiley) were vert professional, all was great we had a great experience
All went great, coordination and lovley tour guide, amazing family time and memories
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Email Susanne | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
We had a great day to remember with Remember !
It was the second time we did the tour with Elephant Herd and again we had a great day. We can highly recommend the safari with Elephant Herd
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Email Reneé | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Yuri was excellent, hard working, attentive, informative, & an attention to details perfectionist.
I can't rave enough about this tour! Just life changing! I will be doing more safaris due to the excellence provided on this one. Not to mention that Yuri did everything he could to make sure that we all saw at the least the Big Five...and we did! I am a solo traveler & was met at the Skukuza airport on landing. The driver was informative on the drive. Once at the lodge, I was met by Yuri (my assigned ranger) & had a seamless check-in & introduction to my bungalow. The lodge & surroundings are beautiful & the staff was amazing! I arrived with 30 minutes to spare to take my first safari & it was just amazing! Every morning, I was up at 4:30am, knock on the door at 5am to make sure that I was up, then off we went at 5am. The safaris were 3 hours long. We arrived back at the lodge where breakfast was ready then we had down time to do what we wanted (enjoy the pool, edit/upload photos, read, etc) & usually there would be wild life wandering along the river. I saw elephant herds, giraffes, water buffalo, a hippo, kudu, & more up close from the lodge! At 2pm, we ate lunch then at 4:30 it was time for another safari & dinner on arrival back at the lodge. The food was delicious & the service impeccable. Each morning & night, while we were out, the staff cleaned our bungalows which, by the way, were beautiful, & comfortable (LOVED the outdoor rain shower). On my last full day, I opted to do a panoramic tour. My guide, Bhekifa, was so attentive & informative. He fell in love with my camera so I let him take a lot of photos while I used my iPhone & he took photos of me as well (which is nice when you solo travel!). I highly recommend doing the panoramic tour! South Africa is beautiful! I arrived back at the lodge just in time for the evening safari & had the morning safari the next morning before time to leave. Bhekifa was assigned to take me to the airport & arrived an hour early because he, being a ranger in Kruger National Park, wanted to try to find lions before I left. We saw a male & female lion plus so much more & he still got me to the airport on time. Exceptional is the one word that I would use to describe Elephant Herd Tours & Safaris!
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Email Dot | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Very professional and informative.
The tour was very successful with numerous game sightings. They guide was very professoinal and knowledgable. This was a public tour thru Kruger and stayed to the roads, but we saw numerous herds and more rare species, including rhinos and Cape buffalo. Highly recommended,
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Email Christian | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Best tour ever
We are coming to SA since 2007. We make a lot of safari. It was the first time that we saw th Big Five.
Thank you Smiley for the best experience in the Kruger ever.
Email Surprise | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
He was Excellent,knew eveything about the animals.
We had a wonderful tour around the park.We got our value for money.
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Email Donato | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Absolutely amazing!
The experience exceeded our expectations! The guide was incredible. He went out of his way to help us catch a view of all the animals! We were able to see the BIG 5 in two days!! Absolutely INCREDIBLE experience!!!
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Email Christin | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Absolut lovely Tour
The communication were really easy and fast, i was picked up from my Hotel in Johannesburg and dropped of at the camp after 5,5h.
The elephant whisper tour was an amazing 1h trip, the santuary is really taking care of the elephants and you can really see that they enjoy the work with the elephants. Next day I was picked up at 4:45AM for my safari trip in Kruger park which was really amazing with such a lovely and funny Tour guide! Also it is nice that they never plan more than 6 people in one vehicle, so everyone can have a "window"seat (we were 4 people in one vehicle). Second day were also amzing and really interessting as I had the whole vehicle just for myself with the tour guide.
Breakfast and Dinner were included.
My room in the camp was also amazing and my bed was really comfortable.
