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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A great adventure- small & locally owned
Simon provided us a great 2 night camping Safari in Chobe national park. The experience included a boat ride and many different drives around the park, where we got to see just about every animal that we could have hoped for ( elephants, zebras, giraffes, baboons, birds, hyenas, dung beetles, lions, etc). Camping was rustic but well prepared, and included good meals cooked over the fire, plenty of snacks, tea, and rain gear for when it started pouring. He even went above and beyond to accommodate our 18 month old on the adventures. The only downside of camping was lots of ants. Simon owns and operates Cape Fig Safaris and is exactly the kind of person you want to hire if you're looking to support a small locally owned Safari operation.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
It was excellent
The employees I spoke with from Dunas Safari were excellent in communication, looking for solutions that I liked.
Was quite well treated!
Thank you so much.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A pleasant surprise
The Mountain Zebra National Park was recommended to us by people we met in another park. We weren’t too convinced, but decided to go see for ourselves. What a pleasant surprise.
The park is surrounded by beautiful mountains, with a central grassland plateau, covered with wild flowers during the time we were there (April). Although most of the roads within the park are gravel, it’s well maintained and accessible to all motor vehicles. The rest camp has a number of cottages and a beautiful camp site. The cottages are quite modern, comfortable and well equipped for self-catering. The cottages are serviced daily. There is a restaurant and a well-stocked shop in the rest camp. The restaurant has a very basic menu. We did not visit the restaurant, as we self-catered. There is a swimming pool in the rest camp and another swimming pool in the separate picnic area.
We saw an abundance of mountain zebra, black wildebeest, springbok and blesbok on the grassland plateau. In the thicket surrounding the plateau, we saw gemsbok, hartebeest, kudu and eland. Most of the antelope in the park are easy to spot and they generally go about their business without giving much attention to the visitors. We fleetingly saw some black-backed jackals and two of the rhinos in the park. The best sighting however, was the two male lions. They walked within touching distance past our vehicle. To complete our list of sightings, we also saw monkeys, baboons, ground squirrels and a number of different bird species. Not seeing the cheetahs, hyenas or buffalo, was a bit of a disappointment. I would therefore recommend visitors to go on the guided game drives to improve their chances of seeing the more elusive animals.
I have visited a number of national parks in South Africa and would definitely recommend this park for its accommodation, beautiful scenery and abundance of animals. It is a small park and a three - to four night stay should be sufficient to explore the park and enjoy the scenery.
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Review about Hell's Gate National Park by PeeBee
Hell's Gate is a fantastic park, but not for safari. Take a guided tour of the gorge, climb Fischer's Peak, take in the scenery. But if you want a game drive head to nearby Nakuru National Park.
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Nice, easy game drive right in the city
Nairobi National Park provides a great game drive experience, at an affordable price, without leaving Nairobi city. The park is much smaller than other, more famous East African parks, like the Maasai Mara or the Serengeti or even Nakuru National Park. It's big advantage lies in it accessibility.
There are plenty of safari companies that do tours of the park in the standard pop-top vans or Land Rovers. You can also drive into the park yourself, which plenty of people do. The roads are all dirt and can be rough and dusty in some places, but a small SUV can handle most of it without too much trouble. This is how I experienced the park on my one visit, and we didn't feel like we missed anything. If fact, we even beat the professional safari vehicles to a couple of lion sightings.
The density of animal life in the park is fantastic. On one two hour tour we saw lions, giraffe, ostriches, warthogs, baboons and other monkeys, more birds than I could identify, and more. The scenery is beautiful, but you can see the city at the periphery from most places in the park. For some, that will ruin the ambiance, but it's not so hard to block that out and enjoy this park for what it is: a beautiful, wild, and somehow also very accessible and affordable mini-safari destination right at the edge of one of Africa's greatest cities.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great trip to Mikumi!
Great small business. Super friendly and professional. Great price and I got to see lions!
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip Of A Lifetime
My partner and I had a wonderful time with the package put together by Laurette. The communication was always timely and excellent. Laurette worked closely with us to find exactly what we wanted to do within our budget. We would highly recommend Laurette and Pembury to family and friends interested in a visit to Africa. Bravo!
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Communications could have been better
All communication was by email, in English, but did not always address our queries, meaning that sometimes we felt a little unsure of our booking. In the end, all was fine, we made all connections and were met everywhere as arranged. Our first guide, John, was excellent. His ability to spot animals and knowledge about them was superb. The distances travelled were understandably large, but could have been better planned, particularly the first day. We would have been better advised to travel to Arusha/Kilimanjaro the day before the start of the safari, as we didn't arrive at our first lodge until well after dark. The accommodation was excellent everywhere except for Arusha, which was barely 'back-packer' standard. We should have stayed at the previous lodge a second night and just had an early drive to the airport.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful Honeymoon Trip
We went on a 9 day tour with Moriti for our honeymoon, including 1 night in Kruger, 5 nights in private reserves and the rest around the Blyde river canyon. Communication before the trip was excellent. We were fortunate to have William as our guide, he was knowledgeable and friendly, and adept at dodging the occasional pot hole on the road. All the accommodation was comfortable and the food was great. Highlights of the trip include a perfect leopard sighting in Klaserie, great food from our private chef Lindsey, and wonderful views (and not having to worry about anything)!
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65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Incredible Canoe and Safari experience on the Zambezi River
The communications for the trip was excellent. All questions were handled quickly. They were very good about creating an itinerary that filled our needs. From the moment we arrived at the airport to our departure everything went very smoothly. We had very nice B and B's with wonderful breakfast and dinners. Our canoe trip down the Zambezi river and the safari at Mana pools exceeded our expectations. Our guides were excerptional!