Nature Travel Namibia
Nature Travel Namibia
- Office In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2005)
- Member Of:
- TASA & Namibia Tourism Board
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $83 to $661 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
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Reviews
Email Sarah | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic trip
Planning and support from San-Mari prior to the trip was outstanding. The plan included everything we wanted but the actual trip exceeded our expectations. Our guide Marius was brilliant; knowledgeable, fun, worked hard to find some amazing animal sightings and drove like a pro. The Living Desert Tour with Chantelle was oustanding. Lodges were very good and food plentiful!
We would always use Nature Travel Namibia for any future visits and recommend them highly.
Email Fi Isaacs | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Drive through Namibia into northern Botswana
Great organisation, everything went like clockwork, excellent range of accommodation. Nature travel Namibia were flexible about our needs, responsive, friendly and helpful. Would definitely recommend them without hesitation.
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Email Annsofie and Lena | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Outstanding and way over our high expectations!!
We never ever, during our over 20 years of travelling around the world, have experienced such excellent service and communication with a tour agent before! Thank you so much Nicolette for answering our 100 e-mails so fast!
We went for a 8-day Namibia Classic Safari in our own vehicle and with our superfantasic driver and guide, mr Marius Siemens.
Nicolette and Marius made all our wishes and dreams come true way over our high expectations! Those 8 days seems to us as a lot longer cause of everything we got to see: The amazing different landscape that changed from day to day like the wonderful colors of the big dunes in the Namibdesert "floating" out to the coast and the wonderful city of Swakopmund.
And the wildlife we got to see!!! Totaly amazing! Marius knew exactly where and when to go where to get to see the most. And we sure did!
One of our days in Etosha we saw lions, leopard and cheeta - all before lunchtime!! Above that w also got to see desertelefhants and the African elephants as well! Marius always made sure we got the best possible angle for a photo and he also has a great knowledge about the wildlife that made all our questions answered.
The lodges and food was also great and we really don´t know how to express ourselves to be able to say just how perfect this safari has been.
You have to experience it, feel it, live it. And we promise: You will not regret it!
Once more: Thank You so much Nicolette at Nature Travel Namibia and mr Marius Siemens - you are simply the best! We will be back!
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Email David Drake & Deborah Jaffe | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review of Fantastic NBZ Private Nature/Birding Tour Led by Cronje of Nature Birding Travel
This is a belated review of a private 14 day nature trip of Northern Namibia in December 2018 that was led by Marc Cronje of Nature Birding Travel, who served as our superlative and indefatigable host, guide, driver, fixer and companion throughout.
Beginning with an airport pick-up at Livingstone in Southern Zambia, the tour encompassed a brief stop in Zimbabwe to visit Victoria Falls; two days in Zambia to bird the Zambezi River; two days in Botswana to bird the Zambezi floodplains and Okavango River, and the remainder of the time in Namibia, with a route that took us through the Okavango to Etosha for 4 days; a day in the spectacular, other-worldly Damaraland region; two days in the Erongo Mountains, where we stayed at the amazing Erongo Widerness Lodge; and a final morning of coastal birding in Walvis Bay.
We are experienced, well-travelled birders with an equally strong interest in all other forms of wildlife, as well as in natural landscapes and ecosystems, so our hope for this tour — which was fully realized — was to experience a wide range of Southern African flora, fauna and avian life at an unhurried pace that would allow for full immersion. As this is a review rather than a trip report, we do not provide here a detailed account of species sighted, but the birding and wildlife experience was richly rewarding and exceeded expectations, with nearly 350 species of birds sighted, 40 species of mammals (including no fewer than ten separate encounters with lions), and one exciting sighting of a Black Mamba on the first morning of the trip.
The itinerary of the trip was exceptionally well designed, with consideration given to keeping daily travel distances manageable in order to allow time for leisurely enjoyment of all wildlife. The well-chosen lodges were (other than in Etosha NP) small, privately run establishments with individual character and charm, allowing for varied experiences while delivering a uniformly high standard of service.
Marc Cronje proved to be a world-class guide, whose deep knowledge and appreciation of wildlife, landscape, and birds is matched by his superb wildlife spotting and identification skills and by his infectious enthusiasm and passion for his job. He worked tirelessly on our behalf, from first light until night fall, and even then he was always eager to go owling.
Beyond his skills as a nature guide, Marc is a great communicator with a robust sense of humor. His patience, politeness and respect for others was a pleasure to behold and a real asset when dealing with border officials, a necessity on a trip that encompassed four countries.
We could not recommend Marc and Nature Birding Travel more highly and look forward to arranging our next nature safari adventure with him.
David Drake and Deborah Jaffe
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Email Sebastien | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
wonderfull Birding Safari in Zambia, Caprivi and Chobe with Nick Buys
This 2 weeks birds and mammals trip in Southern Africa was our second trip with Nick Buys. We have been already with him in Namibia 4 years ago in a very succesfull trip.
We visited South of Zambia (Nkanga River Conservation Area, South Kafue and Livingstone surroundings), the Caprivi Strip (Kwando River and Mahango Game Reserve) and Northern Botswana (Okavango Panhandle and northern Chobe).
The places we visited were wonderfull. We felt the privilege to be the only ones in the middle of the bush and his fauna in the very preserved Nanzhila Plains-Kafue National Park. We had excelent boat trips on Zambezi, Chobe, Okavango and Kwando Rivers. Sunsets were stuning !
We stayed in very confortable and peacefull lodgings were we could appreciate the magic of wild Africa.
This trip was focused on a list of possible life's firsts, for both birds and mammals. The lists was not so long, as we have been already in various trips in eastern and southern Africa. It consisted most of all in specialities and endemics, as Black-cheeked Lovebird, Schalow's Turaco, Pel's Fishing-owl, Bradfield's Hornbill, Chaplin's Barbet, African Broadbill, Miombo Tit, Copper Sunbird, Black-eared Seed-eater...
We managed to see more than 300 bird species, and almost all the possible species on our list that occurs in the area.
We only failed for 3 species of Miombo forest, certainly because of the severe drought that occured this year. Actually forests were very quite, and Nick had to work hard to find us some dificult birds in that conditions. On the other hand, and certainly because of the drought, this trip was very succesfull for small raptors as African Cuckoo-hawk, Lizard Buzzard, Western Banded Snake Eagle, African Goshawk, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Little Sparrohawk, Eurasian Hobby, Dickinson's Kestrel... We had excellent sightings of a Lanner hunting a Cape Turtle Dove, a Dickinson's Kestrel drinking at a watter hole and a pair of Little Sparrohawks breeding.
Mammals sightings were also great, with 45 species.
The best was the day spent with a troup of 21 Wild Dogs in Kafue (10 adults and 11 puppies) : they spent the day resting and playing at the side of a water hole in the company of many herbivores (surprisingly very relaxed) and birds who came to drink, including Black-cheeked Lovebirds. At the end of the afternoon, we could follow them one hour hunting in the bush. At the end, we didn't see them catching anything, but a pair of breeding leopards managed to catch an impala that was runing away from the Wild Dogs !
Thanks to some night drives and night walks, we also had a good selection of nocturnal mammals, with 2 species of Galago, Common Genet, African Civet, Bush Pig, South African Porcupine...
We want to thank Nick warmly for this trip. Again we really appreciated his cualities as a guide, his profesionalism, his excelent knowings in the species and the habitats, his sens of respect of nature, his organisation, his patience and his excellent sense of humor.
We hope to come back soon in Africa for another such succesfull trip with him.
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Email Katleen Wils | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Everything you could hope for!
We recently went on a 3-week self-drive tour that was completely organized by Nature Travel Namibia. They booked us a 4x4 rental car with rooftop tents as well as all of our accommodations and some of the activities. Everything was organized exactly as we wanted, and we had no unpleasant surprises during our trip. Just the holiday you would hope for, nice and relaxing but also full of wonderful activities to enjoy the wildlife and landscapes to the fullest. Communication with Nature Travel prior to the trip all went very smooth, they are very friendly and helpful and always eager to assist you in any way possible. The tour itself was wonderful, we absolutely loved Namibia and will certainly be coming back! We will definitely book via Nature Travel again, so highly recommendable!
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Email Barbara | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Trip to the Namib
Everything was perfect. San-Mari and Lucky were the best.
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Email Karen | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
our guide was so knowledgeable re Africa, ecology, recycling, animal habits, and birding
We have been planning our safari for over a year. We have had many emails with Nick with many questions. Some silly and most very informative. When we sent an email he would answer within a few days. This was the best trip of our lives. We were a little nervous before the trip but once there we felt very safe with Nick as our guide. This trip was so far above our expectations I can’t believe it. Everywhere we stayed showed us a different view of Africa. We stayed in lodges, tents, 5star hotels, and open air rooms. Each held its own kind of enjoyment for us on our safari. Everyone in Africa was so nice to us and so friendly. We cannot believe we had such a wonderful time in Africa. It was a long flight but well worth the time. We think that we may want to visit another area of Africa in the future. We saw all the animals we wanted to such as cheetah, leopard, wild dogs, hyenas, lions, Cape buffalo, elephants, giraffes, zebra, impala, hippos, and rhinos, baboons and more. Thank you Nick for the trip of a lifetime!
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Email Ed C | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Nick our Guide put our Safari together it was top notch in all aspects of the safari.
It was very easy to communicate via email with Nick on any Questions we had. I was traveling with my wife and 4 friends and all communications that they had with Nick were answered via email promptly.Every place we went to on the Safari was excellent, in viewing the animals, the lodgings that he had set up for us. The service staff at all the locations we visited were very friendly and went out of their way to make our vacation wonderful. All of us in our group have agreed that Nature Travel Namibia was the best for our safari trip from start to finish.
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Email Rich & Libda Christensen | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our tour was excellent & allowed us to truly experience the varied geography & wildlife of Namibia
We were a group of six friends. Nature Travel Namibia (Nick Buys) & his staff were very responsive to our many questions. They put together our itinerary & all was delivered as promised & in excellent style. Nick’s expertise & sense of humor further enhanced our experience. We were mostly very satisfied with our accommodations—one a little too rustic. Food everywhere was great & plentiful. Our safaris were awesome. Nick knew just where to go. In addition to the big 5, we saw animals we didn’t know existed & took time to watch & observe their behavior. This is a trip we will never forget. Thanks again Nick & Nature Travel Namibia.