Africa: Reviews from our travellers

"We thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of our holiday. A wonderful experience! (except for tsetse)

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Carry on with the good work!" Read full review: 15 nights in Africa; 9 on a Zambia safari

"We used Expert Africa on a recommendation and found the staff to be extremely helpful and knowledgeable. We absolutely loved our trip and it fully exceeded all our expectations.

Thank you to the whole team for always answering our queries so patiently!!

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Not really. We were very happy with all the recommendations, received literature and general assistance." Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 7 on a Zanzibar holiday

"A trip of a lifetime! It was even more than we hoped for, romantic, adventurous, many new experiences with wonderful game viewing. We enjoyed the people in Botswana, dignified, skilled in their professions and enjoyable companions.

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Expert Africa's service was personal, customized and very informative." Read full review: 10 nights in Africa; 9 on a Botswana safari

"We had never been to Tanzania or done a Safari holiday before. We absolutely loved it and will definitely want to do another safari holiday in the future to Africa.

Both Selous and Ruaha were amazing places to get really close to the animals and the scenery was breathtaking. We would also like to thank Liz Wollen and Eleanor Dunkels at Expert Africa who spent a lot of time talking us through the different camps and locations. Their help was immeasurable and their advice was spot on. Our trip ran like clockwork and their recommendations were superb. Overall we had a fantastic time and would highly recommend it.

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The service provided by Expert Africa is fantatastic and we can't think of anything that they could do better." Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 9 on a Tanzania safari

"Everything on this trip was great. We've both travelled quite a lot and we rank this trip as one of the best. We saw everything we wanted to in the time we had and it really couldn't have been improved.

Our concern before we left was that we might have chosen too many places with too much driving inbetween. As it turned out, the journeys between places were some of our best experiences. We drove 2,300 miles in total and it was a pleasure. We would love to have stayed in places longer, but the itinerary really worked well.

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Just to try and ensure that the vegetarian information gets through to the chef! Easier said than done, I know.

I'm sure they must find it frustrating to find out they have to make something else when the guest is actually sitting at the table.
We did actually make sure we told each of the lodges when we checked in." Read full review: 18 nights in Africa; 11 on a Namibia trip

"Very pleased with our trip. Anna selected Shentons for us and it really suited us.

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no you seem to have thought of everything" Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 14 on a Zambia safari

"Management, guides, general staff superb.

Transfers worked like clockwork and there was always someone to guide us to the next destination.

Apart from Busanga game was excellent as were the three camps.
Shiwa was an wonderful experience as already mentioned.

Only downside was the tsetses in Kafue, would actually prevent us returning there.

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As previous users of Wilderness camps in other African countries it would be helpful to see in your brochure which ones belong to them." Read full review: 15 nights in Africa; 11 on a Zambia safari

"Wonderful to be back in the valley and Kapani and Tafika were fabulous.

The trip was spoiled somewhat by Mwaleshi which was disappointing as this was my first trip to North Park and I'd been looking forward to it.

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Not really because the problems we encoutered were beyond EA's control." Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 11 on a Zambia safari

"We put this into our top three holidays - but we're not sure what the other two might be! We were delighted with our choice of camps which we alighted upon after full answers to our detailed questions: which suggests to us that you made a good effort at trying to understand what we were looking for (and made us think about what we really wanted).

Beho Beho managed to create a really welcoming safari house party atmosphere (probably helped by the fact that the owner's mother "Mrs B" was staying). Seasoned safari folk might find it a little too sanitised and soft but we enjoyed it all the same.

Kwihala really does deserve a higher profile. it's not the poshest but it's for real, in a genuine piece of wilderness. Pietro was really enthusiastic. He really has a passion for lions which, perhaps almost got in the way of the wider safari experience such as simply stopping and looking at the "normal" wildlife. Also chasing the lions meant that breakfast and lunch almost went forgotten. Now, we know that nothing is predictable in the field but it did mean that on a couple days the gap between lunch and dinner was almost indigestably short.

Pole Pole was a complete downshift in pace, and a totally welcome one too. All services were delivered faultlessly and effortlessly. The atmosphere in the village was good too." Read full review: 15 nights in Africa; 14 on a Tanzania safari

"Everything was organised perfectly and went like clockwork.The amount of US dollars I was advised to take was insufficient.

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I have nothing to add about this wonderful safari." Read full review: 12 nights in Africa; 9 on a Tanzania safari