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Riana Conradie   –  
Canada CA
Visited: May 2016 Reviewed: Oct 31, 2016

Email Riana Conradie  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
5/5

We took this amazing tour with Hennie Becker our tour guide and it was a once in a lifetime experience. The company was excellent, the food was soooooo good (loved the cooking over the open fire), the wine was out of this world! and the activities were extremely well organized. We experienced things we just read about in fancy magazine articles. Coming from Canada we love "our" Niagara Falls, but the Victoria Waterfalls have a magic that silenced us all. Thanks to Hennie and his crew for catering to all our needs - we would like to have you as a tour guide again and we will definitely tell our friends about this wonderful experience.

Zhao Lily   –  
China CN
Visited: August 2016 Reviewed: Oct 27, 2016

Email Zhao Lily  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Okavango Delta and Victoria Falls
5/5

I really loved this safari with Fleet Foot and we made good friends with Hennie, our guide. From the meeting at the airport to the end of the tour, everything was so wonderful. I enjoyed the food on the fire, the wild animals (so close to our camp area, it was very exciting), the open vehicles on the game drives, boat cruise on the Delta and the mokoros, walking in the wild together with a guide, visiting the Victoria Falls and all the unique experiences. The was never a moment to relax as we wanted to enjoy everything! After returning home, we already decided to go again. Now I am planning the next trip with them to go to Kilimanjaro.

Arnold Fall   –  
South Africa ZA
Visited: October 2016 Reviewed: Oct 21, 2016

Email Arnold Fall  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

What a great Safari trip with Fleet Foot to Tanzania, the Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Kilimanjaro!!!
5/5

A Safari trip to Tanzania could not be complete if the Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Kilimanjaro are not included! And going with Fleet Foot again was yet another great experience!
In March we went to Chobe and Victoria Falls with them. A review of this one has been posted before.
On this Safari we were just in time to witness the return of the herds crossing the Mara and Grumeti rivers. Hundreds of thousands of beasts crossed the crocodile invested rivers from the Mara and Kenya into the Serengeti Plains. Most of the safari group members were camping in luxury mobile camps, put up by Fleet Foot - and the 4x4 vehicles, with window seats for all, had pop-up roofs. We were privileged to watch the game from afar and was also able to get very close to the predators. The Ngorongoro Crater is just too wonderful for words. The variety of game staying there mostly all year, and adding the Big 5 we have witnessed, have made this all an outstanding memorable Safari.
From the Crater we moved to the Kilimanjaro Mountain - not to actually climb it - but to visit the Kilimanjaro National Park. There we have camped again at the foothills of the Kili and enjoyed long walks to the local markets and waterfalls in the area and even tried the mountain for a couple of meters… Fleet Foot also organised and booked our extension of the trip to Zanzibar for 4 days and reserved a handful of excursions like Stone Town, Spice Farm, water sports, i.e. scuba diving and Dolphin boat trips. It was unbelievable the way Hennie managed to handle everything so professionally, calm & collective all the way through! Right from the logistics to the end result - taking us physically to all these unknown areas, did all the bush cooking himself as well as the setting up and cleaning of the superb bush camps. On our return home this week we are already making plans for yet another safari with Hennie & Fleet Foot! This time Africa in it's fullness - and all along the Zambezi floodplains.

Arnold Fall   –  
South Africa ZA
Visited: March 2016 Reviewed: Oct 21, 2016

Email Arnold Fall  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Amazing Victoria Falls with exhilarating excursions / Big Five Games drives to Chobe National Park
5/5

This was our third safari into Africa with Fleet Foot Safaris. Fleet Foot Safaris book our air flight tickets and did all reservations for the rest of our 4x4 trip through Moremi, Savuti, Chobe, Victoria Falls and further to Kariba and Mana Pools in Zimbabwe. We already have planned our next trip with Fleet Foot in Tanzania for our next road trip to the Serengeti in October.

Fleet Foot Safaris runs a bush camp on the Chobe River in the Chobe National Park. We spent 3 nights with Hennie Becker in the Chobe where he guided us through the Park in their 4x4 Toyota vehicles on exciting game drives. The game was plentiful, the bird life is beautiful and the green lush Zimbabwean Teaks and undergrowth is a delight at the end of the rainy season.

The outlay of the mobile bush camp under glorious trees with 3mx3m dome walk-in tents, warm water ablutions close by, give a lot of comfort in the wild. The stretcher beds with mattress, duvet and clean bed-linen were very comfortable and even better tan our own roof-top tents which we used the rest of the trip.

The baboons are just a nuisance and very noisy at night, but this is part of the bush experience! To be so close to the water with game all around, you are being offered a typical African experience. Add to this all meals, which were freshly prepared on open fire and a glass of South African wine, make one feel completely at home in the bush.

Hennie has shared stories and tales of his experiences in the bush and singing songs around the campfire brought back the nostalgia of years back when we were still young... Hennie is a very skilful guide, friend and a talented musician.

The guided boat cruise on the Chobe is - according to Hennie - the best in Africa and we wondered about it before we went on the safari. After the cruise we had to admit that we did not ever experience anything like this anywhere in Africa about the diversity and numbers of different game species and birding - let alone the elephants swimming across the mighty Chobe with only their trunks showing above the water as evidence of their absence. This surely is something not to be missed!

On a late afternoon game drive, we came across an elephant bull which took care of a friend or family member's dry bones. He just did not want us to come close by the road and also mock charged the vehicle several times. After some time, he discovered that we were not there to harm him, and as we passed, he only sounded his trumpet in acknowledgement of the fact that he is aware of us! Hennie was calm and relaxed at all times and his experience with wild in the bush put us at ease throughout.

We highly recommend Hennie Becker and Fleet Foot Safaris for any trip in Africa and we believe you will have the same story to tell. We wish Fleet Foot many happy years in Travel and we thank them for giving us such an unforgettable expierence in the bush.

Arnold

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