AMAZING ACACIA AFRICA

Hello good to hear from you Tammy. We had a wonderful trip with fullness of lifetime memories. Personally I like this itinerary because it’s a good mix of nature, animal world and cultural highlights. The two guides were professional and enthusiastic all the time. We had returned home safe and happy. Thank you again for your support throughout the process.
Best wishes.
Ke

Hi Tammy
So nice of you to think about us.
We had a fantastic time, saw so much wildlife and we loved the camping. Kwai was our favourite spot although loved Guma lagoon too and Botswana in general. I can’t imagine seeing animals in the wild would ever get old. The guides were great, and travelling was comfortable and easy. Hippos grazing outside our room in Vic falls. Crazy!
We had 5 days in Capetown in seapoint and hired a car for 2 so went down to Hermanus and the cape. Did a wine tour, table mountain, and enjoyed hanging out along the waterfront.
We both came back determined to go back to Africa and I would go with drifters on another tour
Thanks again for helping us out and if we know of anyone looking to head that way, okay if I pass on your details?
All the best
Arlene

Hi Minette
I had an amazing time!!! Our Drifters guides, Francis and Wycliffe, we're absolutely INCREDIBLE. They welcomed us like family!
My highlights were Ngorongoro and visiting the Masai village. Something I never thought I would ever experience!
I would like to return to the Mara in a few years during peak migration, as I didn't feel that I scratched the "mass migration" itch, but still saw incredibly animals, including my first ever leopards, cheetahs, marabou storks, and mongooses (mongeese?!).
I think it would be useful to update the info packet to make it really clear that plastic water bottles are not allowed in Longonot NP. Guests should be advised to bring adequate reusable bottles to last the hike up the mountain. We were woefully ill-prepared, with plastic bottles which weren't allowed, and it could have been quite dangerous as it was very hot.
Also, I have fed back to Drifters to ask Elsamere not to ask guests to sit through a 45 minute documentary after our guided tour. It made for a very long afternoon and left little to no time for afternoon high tea and exploring the grounds (I left very frustrated, as I was really looking forward to seeing Elsamere!).
One more thing - one hotel upgrade in Tanzania didn't accept my year 2013 USD notes. Might want to warn travellers about this as I know it was an earlier year listed in the info guide.
I made friends with a couple of German girls on the tour, and were all planning on visiting Namibia and Botswana in 2028. I'll let you know when the time comes to book! We're hoping we can specially request Francis and Wycliffe again!
Cheers
Bec

Good morning Bernelle
When I first contacted African Overland Tours to enquire about a guided tour of South Africa I was lucky enough to have you as my adviser Your Happy To Help Vibe was hugely appreciated in helping with the booking process and any follow up queries I had. Thank you so much.
Cullinan Guided Journeys were your partner company and they were the providers of what has turned out to be an amazing experience for Richard and me. Any concerns that I had prior to the trip concerning our physical abilities to undertake the journey (we are 80 and 77 years old respectively) were allayed from the beginning by the quality of the guides, Transport vehicles, the luxury hotels, the wardens and the highly professional management of all the component parts of the long trip
On our game drive in Kruger, arriving in the cold and pre dawn darkness, our game warden cautioned us to remember the animals are wild and do not always turn up for tourists!
Imagine our delight. - and the warden’s excitement - when within the first 90 minutes after sunrise we saw a pair of mating leopards and a group of four male cheetahs all less than 6ft from our viewing car. Add in elephants, wild dogs, giraffes, jackals, various antelopes, mongoose. Hyenas. baboons, monkeys etc etc
Word had spread among the rangers that we had seen the leopards and when we arrived at our breakfast stop at 9 am. a crowd of rangers and guides were waiting And cheering our man! He had to produce the leopard photos as proof Some of the days involved very long distances to drive and they were a bit wearisome for us both. However our guide Walter was a great companion and we learned so much from him about his beautiful but troubled country The Swaziland section was interesting but the hotel was a misfit. A huge villa for just us two on. Sprawling private estate - not too comfortable despite the size- and the only hotel we stayed at with dreadful food and very bad service. We enjoyed our group size of three for the first half of the trip but a few others would have been more interesting. When our second half (starting in Port Elizabeth) added six more travellers we felt it was better and more relaxing The President hotel in Cape Town is where journey with Cullinan ended. A big comfortable hotel with great restaurants and service. However, we would have preferred our finish hotel to have been in Cape Town Waterfront area and not several kilometres out on the coast.
Thank you for your service and support in helping me to make the most of our trip
Kind regards
Maggi

Hi Tammy,
Thanks for the welcome back note. I really do love overland travel in Africa and the contrast in the two trips was dramatic. I especially enjoyed our meeting in Cape Town where you shared your own extraordinary experiences.
Tsitsikamma on the coast with wild windy weather is probably the spot that will remain in my memory as outstanding.
I'll add some pics on the link you sent. I will recommend you and your organization to others planning trips to Africa.
All the best,
Charles Hubert