G Adventures Tours

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