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Peter G   –  
Canada CA
Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Sep 5, 2024

Email Peter G  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

The most amazing safari guide - MUST BOOK
5/5

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.

Thaisa Andreoli   –  
Brazil BR
Visited: September 2024 Reviewed: Sep 13, 2024

Email Thaisa Andreoli  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Unforgetable experience
5/5

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!

Annet Krijgsman-Louter   –  
Netherlands NL
Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Sep 18, 2024

Email Annet Krijgsman-Louter  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Perfect organized safari with the best professional guides!
5/5

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!

Esra   –  
Switzerland CH
Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Sep 19, 2024

Email Esra  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Authentic safari experience
5/5

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

Andreas Rubahn   –  
South Africa ZA
Visited: October 2024 Reviewed: Oct 24, 2024

Email Andreas Rubahn  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

excellent tour
5/5

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 .

Hanno   –  
Germany DE
Visited: October 2024 Reviewed: Oct 27, 2024

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

Fantastic Tour with a very experienced guide.
5/5

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

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