Africa: Reviews from our travellers

"The overall trip was very good indeed. It was a trip planned with a specific view to experience the wildebeest migration. We were able to to see one such river crossing event very well from the Little Governor's camp. And another similar event partially from the Karen Blixen camp.

The sighting of lions, leopards, cheetahs was also extensive. For the bird watchers in the group also, the trip was excellent.

All arrangements were fine, and all planned events, stays, travels, activities were executed smoothly.

A few areas where EA can perhaps take some steps to ensure a little better care in future have been highlighted. These are not meant as criticism but as suggestions for improvements & I am sure they will be considered accordingly." Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 6 on a Kenya safari

"Except for Tafika - everything was well done" Read full review: 10 nights in Africa; 10 on a Zambia safari

"Lucy helped us organize this short break after many other options were considered. Lucy is intimately familiar with options in that region and gave us impartial and practical advice. I look forward to booking out next trip with Expert Africa." Read full review: 5 nights in Africa; 4 on a Zambia safari

"Excellent trip overall, special places and the recommendations were very appropriate in terms of availability and what we were looking for." Read full review: 12 nights in Africa; 4 on a Botswana safari

"We had two absolutely brilliant weeks in Etosha (and at Erongo Wilderness Lodge on our way there). We have come home with memories of some incredible wildlife sightings with photos that will take a while to sort. We weren't after luxury accommodation - we wanted to be inside the park and maximise our wildlife-viewing time. Staying at Okaukuejo, Halali and Dolomite delivered in spades! Thank you Expert Africa for understanding what we wanted and for securing our bookings for us (as it's virtually impossible for individuals to do this using the online booking facility provided by NWR even though we tried almost a year in advance). Thank you too for the Erongo recommendation as it was nice to start there." Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 14 on a Namibia trip

"The general game was surprisingly sparse for the Okavango, but we were particularly interested in seeing wild dog and in that regard had a memorable trip.

The recommendation to combine a wet camp with a dry camp was an excellent suggestion, maximising our Delta experience. Support in finalising pre-trip arrangements was superb (Lucy) and ground staff in Kwara Camp and in Maun went out of their way to assist Don with his special needs, enabling him to rejoin our safari group." Read full review: 6 nights in Africa; 6 on a Botswana safari

"This was our very first safari, and it was an incredible success...We loved every bit of it...

Everything extremely well organized, no surprises, great locations, fantastic game drives, smooth transportation between the camps..

Everything was exactly as James had explained us it would be. James helped us pick locations and activities that we loved, hard to come up with anything other than glowing compliments

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no... we loved your service. Will definitely use it again for our next safari!" Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 6 on a Tanzania safari

"This was our 21st trip with EA and, yet again, we were well served by our favourite agent.

We had hoped for a better flower season but, booking relatively early because of our need to spend some time in Cape Town, we had to take our chances. At least the variable weather at that time of year was kind to us. And we did see flowers aplenty in West Coast National Park; and we did find a good range of birdlife.

In short this was a very worthwhile trip not only in its own right but also as a scouting mission for a return." Read full review: 7 nights in Africa; 5 on a South Africa trip

"Our trip was fantastic. It was well organised by Expert Africa and Sabina, our agent was accurate and helpful at all times. The book and advance information was invaluable, from packing lists to maps, money advice and maps, everything was just brilliant.

We traveled with three children, aged 10, 13 and 15 and our route, accommodation and destinations worked for us all. It is not easy finding places to accommodate a family of five and we appreciate that every lodge was ready with the extra beds and big rooms.

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The main roads were easy to drive on and although parking in towns can be a little confusing with some people claiming to be there to 'watch' the car while you leave it there, and then expect you to pay them, we never had any problems and if in doubt we found residential streets to park on.

Take a cool bag/blocks in your luggage! We used these every day and the lodges were happy to freeze the blocks for us for our picnics each day.

Two weeks is just enough time to see a great deal of Namibia and if we could have extended by a week then maybe we could have made it to the Caprivi Strip; but like all things in life you have to cut your cloth accordingly and we managed to fit so much into our two weeks." Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 10 on a Namibia trip

"It was an amazing trip! I would definitely use Expert Africa again and return to Selous Impala Camp." Read full review: 3 nights in Africa; 3 on a Tanzania safari