65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Hwange is definitely a good place to visit. Thouroughly enjoyed our stay.
We stayed at Little Makalolo camp. Our guide, Mike was excellent and the staff at Little Mak were terrific. We had a great time there. The camp is near a waterhole where there is a hide and we had some wonderful experiences viewing elephant and buffalo very close. What great photo opportunities that was. The food was good, accommodation excellent. One of the highlights was viewing lions being chased by elephant. We also saw a herd of Sable - not always easy to find. Definitely recommend Little Makalolo and Hwange National Park.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Great Lakes Safaris by Debbie Stewart
The Guides were excellent, very knowledgable and patient, the itinerary was good and they tried to ensure we got the maximum amount of enjoyment from our time at each destination.
LV
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Birding trip
Hi guys, just a short note to let you know that we had such a wonderful time on our day trip to lake Naivasha on April 12 2015. Our guide Patrick provided many laughs and facts and made the trip quite enjoyable. Very smart chap with unmatched ornithological knowledge. The boat trip to the crescent Island was interesting with the many birds that we spotted including a fish eagle taking a dive for lunch. Despite the seemingly “bad weather”, we did enjoy the day thoroughly and should we return to Kenya be sure to have us as your clients for another tour.
Thank you for providing us with a fun filled day!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Safari and te coast
Can't say enough good things about Daniel making all the arrangements and Peter our driver who both went the extra mile to make the whole trip simply great.
Daniel layed out a range of options and helped us decide on the best option. Hotel at Diani beach was a gem and the safari accommodation was good too.
Peter was great drove safe and is really knowledgable about the parks and getting the best out of the game drives. 15 years experience and great contacts wherever we went to ensure we got to see as much as possible.
Would recommend to anyone
CA
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
They were very organized, with good staff, and they deliver!
Our bucket list included the Serengeti Safari, Ngorongoto Crater Safari, Kilimanjaro Summiting, and Zanzibar Island relaxation. The owners and staff were very friendly and helpful. I was amazed at the amount of support people per government regulations (12:2). Acclimatization was good as we didn't get sick over the course of 6 days (4 up, 2 down). The sunrise was glorious and the peak ice chunks were stupendous. The whole trip went without a hitch and enjoyed ourselves immensely.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A superb venue for dramatic landscapes, scenic hikes, and superb birding.
My wife and I recently camped for two nights at Augrabies Falls National Park, whilst on a three week road trip in South Africa. The campsite has a peaceful and pleasant atmosphere with excellent facilities. Lots of Rock Dassies and birds made for some fun and easy photography. Apart from the Dassies, I got great close-up photographs, in the campsite, of the Village Weaver, Red-eyed Bulbul, ad Glossy Starling, but saw plenty more birds while out walking. A troupe of monkeys kept us entertained in the campsite - the youngster's antics often hilarious to watch. We did a very early morning walk to the falls, which was great - especially as no one else was around. That morning was a solar semi-eclipse - and I had great fun photographing the sun: a bright orange disc, but like a biscuit with a bite taken out. The light was superb and I got great photos of the gorge and waterfall. Another walk later that day took us to Moon rock. This spectacular granite whale-back hill rises out of a lunar landscape carved with jagged rocks - as far as the eye can see - and was one of the great highlights of the entire road-trip for me. The park has a lovely swimming pool and a wide range of accommodation options. There are also several long drives through the park, and some dedicated 4x4 trails as well. Take your camera and binoculars, and whether you walk or drive, you'll wish you had more time at Augrabies!
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
In a word: Outstanding.
If you don't want to read a positive review don't read this. The three ladies of Chalo Africa went out of their way to make sure that I got every consideration on this safari. Having never been to Africa before I really didn't have any idea what to expect. I went to four camps run by the Massie tribe. I saw all of the big five, and the ugly five and several of the little five. I took over 2,500 pictures (probably close to 3,000) in my eleven day safari which I finally got down to just 533 pictures. The camps (tent) were well maintained, clean and the beds were certainly comfortable. Hot water bottles in the bed every night while we dined. Dined is the correct term, as the food was wonderful. My guides were extremely informative and bent over backwards to show and explain flora, animals and whatever I asked about. If you are a 'birder' you won't be disappointed either.
Chalo Africa was in contact with me almost daily before my trip and several times after to see that everything went as I wanted it.
I have already committed myself and my oldest son for next March. All I have to do is convince my wife to come with me. She gave the trip to me as a 50th anniversary gift.
Take a good zoom camera and a "Good" pair of Binoc's. You won't be sorry.
Have fun, I did.
BE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Nice experience!
Correct pick up, good driver/guide in safari park, we've seen many animals! Good food!
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Possibly the perfect operator
This is the second holiday we have booked with Tribes in under a year. Why Tribes? because of their total professionalism, attention to detail, understanding of our needs and in depth knowledge of the places we want to visit as well as their great enthusiasm - and patience.
Nothing is too much trouble, we even changed countries halfway through the booking process and they make all the time you need to discuss details and ideas by phone or email. They are sensitive to your desires but also to your pocket - safaris are not cheap..
They had visited all but one of the places we went to so could give us very good advice. They were well known and highly respected as a company wherever we went be it a camp or the landside agents.
Our latest holiday was in Botswana and Zimbabwe and involved 3 camps, a hotel, 3 small aircraft flights, a long drive and the international flights. My wife and I are not in the best of health and so were concerned that everything "worked" and we weren't stranded anywhere. We need not have worried everything including failsafe procedures worked perfectly and we were able to enjoy all of our holiday in a very relaxed fashion.
All the camps knew of our requirements (physical and dietary) and desire not just to see animals but also birds and other nature and did their very best to accommodate us.
The first holiday we had with Tribes was in Tanzania and was equally impressive in its organisation and delivery.
I have no hesitation in wholeheartedly recommending them as a company who will enhance your holiday and give you an experience of a lifetime.
Just thinking about the next holiday with them now...
IT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
stunning location, remote, true africa!
I can say, I'm quite an experience Africa Traveller (many safaris over the last 15 years in Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Southafrica, Kenya). With the time my research for places with few tourists, an intact wildlife and a stunning scenery became always more sophisticated and so I decided this time for a safari in Zambia. The Kafue National Park, I stayed in the Busanga plains, have for sure been one of my most exciting safari experiences: in a park as big as the whole region of Tuscany there are merely a few camps (in the part where I stayed there where just 3 of them with a maximum of about 8 guests each). It is hard to meet another car out in the wild, not to speak about situations like in the serengeti, where you can find 25 car around a single lion...
I don't know whether it's ufficially permitted, however, the very experienced drivers go often offroad to take you closer to the animals - surely with few cars in this wast area this is not a problem. And it gives you uncredible photographic opurtunities. We came accross some lions hunting a hippo. We saw many elephants and also rare animals as the serval cat.
Of course also the "simple" luxury of the camp, the great food, the stunning location (elephants visit our tent many times, antilopes are grazing always in front of the camp in the great swamp area, added something to the feeling of "out of Africa". A highlight of course was the balloon flight.
The only real disturbing thing in the Kafue are the Tsetse flies. They where the first animal greeting us as soon as our plane landed and the pilot opened the window. That is when I got my first bite, many others followed. The area around the airstrip is worse, the guides know that and avoid it. But also in other places tsetse can be found (I never saw one in the camp). If I ever plan to return to Kafue I will prepare very well with even better safari cloths then those I already had and some really good repellent (but I'm not sure if it exists - autan and others do not help).