Africa: Reviews from our travellers

"It was an excellent holiday. Seeing the animals in their natural habitat was amazing. All the people that we met were extremely friendly and helpful
I hadn't appreciated that nearly all the roads would be gravel and quite how empty the country is. There are long distances where you don't see another car or anything else for that matter.

This is obviously just our opinion, but we didn't think that the dunes at Sossusvlei were worth the long drive!

We will return to Namibia but spend more time in Etosha." Read full review: 21 nights in Africa; 13 on a Namibia trip

"Our first trip to Africa and it went very smoothly and we really enjoyed it- on balance we had too much driving and too many short stays in the first week so we think we should have planned this a bit differently. Distances in the south are long and gravel roads slow and tiring. The second week at Damaraland Etosha and Okijima was absolutely superb in the timing and in what we saw." Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 11 on a Namibia trip

"Great" Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 7 on a Zambia safari

"Special thanks to Ellie, for sorting out my ridiculous mistake with the booking. You were brilliant.

Made the holiday rather more expensive than I'd anticipated(!) but was thoroughly worth it. Your initial advice about where to go was spot on too. Thank you.

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In a word - No. Whole experience was superb." Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 7 on a Zambia safari

"Malawi was absolutely wonderful, one of our best holidays ever. Would love to go back some day.

Weather in Cape Town was variable, from sun to hail, through wind and rain, so we couldn't do a couple of things that we wanted to do (go up Table Mountain and visit Robben Island). We did see whales at Hermanus, which was on our to-do list, and penguins at Betty's Bay. City bus tours were good for getting to know the city. We were very glad we hired the car for two days as this enabled us to see the coast and the wine area.

All arrangements worked like clockwork, thanks a lot, Claire., for putting it all together for us." Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 9 on a Malawi trip

"It was great to visit new places and to see old favourites once again. We loved the driving on the dirt roads - the freedom of it all and the distances that took us to some fantastic geological points of interest.

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Make sure whover replaces Gwynneth is at least as good as her!" Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 10 on a Namibia trip

"fabulous trip. interesting to see how things were different to 2009. Much drier and hotter in both parks.

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better access to information regarding special offers" Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 12 on a Zambia safari

"This was our thirteenth trip with Expert Africa since 2006 (and we have two more in the pipeline), which speaks volumes in itself.

Once again, we found ourselves well-satisfied with EA's offering and the quality of service (including rapidly finding us overnight accommodation near the airport in Windhoek after a flight delay).

We enjoyed all the camps we went to and achieved most of our objectives (the pangolin, which we had hoped to see as there is research ongoing at one place we stayed, remaining unsurprisingly elusive).

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Keep up the good work!" Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 12 on a Namibia trip

"We had a wonderful holiday. The whole trip ran very smoothly and had been exceptionally well organised." Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 8 on a Tanzania safari

"Great varied holiday.

For a month long holiday there was only one minor one hiccup so that's pretty good. The Wild Horizons road transport from Zambezi Sun to Livingstone Airport didn't turn up. They then didn't answer any of the contact numbers incl their emergency mobile so that is probably more of a concern. No problem we just got the hotel to order us a taxi. A Wild Horizons rep finally called the hotel & said their vehichle wouldn't start that morning & they had another vehicle on the way. We said that given the time we were now taking whatever turned up first (which was the taxi). To their credit Wild Horizans must have contacted the taxi driver and told him to return the fare to us.

Proably the only thing we would have changed on the holiday was to sway Tafika camp in Sth Luangwa NP for one that was on a perennial river with watersports such as canoeing (eg Lower Zambezi NP)

Maruska was extremely helpful with planning our trip and very responsive to our questions .. thanks Maruska

PS: We don't normally have our trips organised by a travel agent and only initially contacted Expert Afrika for the Busanga & Tafika bookings .. but then Maruska offered to book most of the other accn & transfers & that's what happened. Very unusual for us to have transfer cars waiting at an airport etc with our name on a card & we don't see much of an advantage over just getting a bus/taxi .. but i can see that some folks would love the certainty of transport waiting for them

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No" Read full review: 21 nights in Africa; 12 on a Zambia safari