Africa: Reviews from our travellers

"This was such a great holiday.We were so pleased we tried three camps in different areas and we loved them all. Kwando Safaris who ran the camps should be complemented on their camps, staff, service, food and general all round attention to guests comfort and safari experience.The animal sightings were marvellous and probably better than we had anticipated and the Okavango Delta is just beautiful. The whole trip was a huge success.

Note for Megan.........bet you wish you were at the Durban Trade Fair.....we met several people who worked in the travel industry and were vising different camps and some of them were in Africa for 3 weeks!!

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We were completely happy with all aspects of your service. Thank you Megan for your suggestions , for putting together our itinerary ,introducing us to Kwando Safaris and organizing our travel arrangements." Read full review: 10 nights in Africa; 9 on a Botswana safari

"Botswana was our 5th trip to Africa on safari holiday. We had very high expectations on the basis of outstanding previous experiences. But we returned very disappointed. There were few exciting moments and our memories, quite honestly, are of relative dullness. Our photos convey this; we have relatively few and those which we have are not as good as others taken on previous trips. The meerkats and vic falls were the exception but this was an extremely expensive way to see them!!

There was just no excitement. We were expecting the delta to be lush and teeming with wildlife but in reality it is just a series of islands interspersed with wet bits. We went all the way to Botswana and didn't even see a hippo! And we saw just one elephant in the water. You see more in Kenya! The country is also very flat and visually dull. Even the short flights are boring.

The guides are all very pleasant but come across as bored. Where is the enthusiasm?

It's hard to put it onto words without coming across as overly moany. We regret going, to be honest, as it is an expensive country (why???) and we could have had 4 good other holidays in place of this one. We won't be recommending Botswana to anyone.

This appears to be a country which is cleverly marketed but fails to deliver in reality." Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 10 on a Botswana safari

"Thank you. We greatly enjoyed our trip. Everything was well organized and Footsteps and Camp Kalahari were great.

I did however really disliked everything about Sandibe. And my feeling is that other camps / people share this feeling (already knew so). But it didn't spoil my trip as we worked our way around it as much as possible.

All together great memories and glad I chose Expert Africa to help with organizing my trip.

Diederik" Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 8 on a Botswana safari

"Our seventh trip to the Okavango and ninth to Africa with Expert Africa. Another epic holiday and another singular example of the result of excellent planning by a team who care and know what they are doing. Our 2013 trip is well into planning. This time we met a number of other guests who had travelled without the benefit of such expert guidance. Many were unprepared, ill equipped and even without essential mandatory inoculations. We gave out a number of your cards!

Thank you again for another fantastic holiday and we only regret that the onset of age may eventually remove us from your mailing list. Meanwhile we will keep spending the kids inheritance!!

For prospective travellers, listen to Expert Africa.

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Not this time!" Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 10 on a Botswana safari

"Overall an excellent trip with some nice added extras from the camps as they knew it was our honeymoon.

Nick at expert africa did a great job organising everything, especially considering the changes caused by Air Seychelles dropping their long haul flights." Read full review: 20 nights in Africa; 10 on a Botswana safari

"Namibia is a fantastic country, and a self-drive trip is the best way of seeing everything it has to offer.

Although Etosha was the high point, Sossusvlei, the Namib-Naukluft mountains and Erongo were not far behind. The smaller lodges were uniformally welcoming and the rooms & food exceeded our expectations.

Expert Africa provided lots of input which allowed us to choose our itinerary and ensured that everything ran smoothly once we'd arrived. We can't wait to return!" Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 13 on a Namibia trip

"Very satisfactory really does do justice to the experience. The scenery, the lodges, the people, the wildlife, the tours, the food; it was all wonderful!

Sabina was very patient, efficient and helpful throughout the booking process. Everything was well explained and ran like clockwork. Well done Expert Africa and thank you." Read full review: 22 nights in Africa; 7 on a Namibia trip

"Wonderful holiday with the hotel/resorts way above expectation.

Would highly recommend both locations.

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No as thr service was first class." Read full review: 15 nights in Africa; 7 on a Seychelles holiday

"Our trip was more than good. I cannot say more. We have just arrived back home this very early morning. But we can say that if we're going on another trip to lovely Namibia, or to some other country in Africa, we would like to let you arrange the details for it. We are used to handle our own arrangements, but we do realize that it's worth it all letting you do it, making it much more pleasant for us to take care about our on-spot-experiences.

We also went to Cape Town, but that was our own arrangement, although we were so lucky to have a free apartment in Vredehoek for two weeks. Things have changed there since I was there 40 years back as a very young sailor!

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No." Read full review: 5 nights in Africa; 5 on a Namibia trip

"We had a very good trip mostly spent bird watching and walking. We were very lucky with the weather having only one cloudy day and sunshine for the rest of the time (although the wind on the west coast can be pretty strong). The birdwatching was still good in April, although many of the migrating birds had headed north for the European summer, and many of the fresh water ponds had dried up.

Both the Vineyard and Farmhouse Hotels were well situated, with sufficient parking. Views of both table mountain and teh Langebaan lagoon from the hotels created lots of photo opportunities

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None" Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 8 on a South Africa trip