Zambezi Safari Testimonials
Like most good safari companies we have a long list of guests comments stretching back to the early 1990's when we first started to collect them. We've mounted only the comments from the past three years to the site but the list is still incredibly long to plough through.
Quite a number of our past guests are happy to be contacted by email or phone to chat about their experiences in Africa. If you're new to us and would like to chat to our past guests, drop us a line and we'll put you in contact with those who've given their permission.
We love your feedback especially the stories and photographs so please keep sending them through!
Total Solar Eclipse 2001 - by Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson
Some of the more exotic projects Trish has been involved in, include large scale arrangements for amateur astronomists to visit the lower Zambezi river in 2001 to see the total solar eclipse. Taking place just a year after the political crisis in Zimbabwe began in earnst, this was a tricky challenge!
"From Total Solar Eclipse of 2001 June 21 by Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson, NASA"
Amazing time on Tamarind Canoe Safari, July 2011 - by Tina Fountain
Hi Delene
We had an amazing time. everything was really well organised and I have to say the trip is probably one of the best organised that I have ever done and I have done lots of trips all over the world. The guides were fantastic extremely knowledgeable and made the trip all the more enjoyable. I was very impressed by the food which was balanced and tasty despite being in the bush the whole trip. I would highly recomend the Tamarind canoe safaris.
Tina
Zambezi Classic short canoe safari - April 2011 - by Paul & Debbie Sanders
Hi Mark,
Now that we're back we wanted to thank you for your advice and help in arranging our trip, and also to say how much we enjoyed it.
The guys at Natureways were superb - they were all so thoughtful, helpful - and extremely knowledgeable - which made it easy to trust their judgement in the occasional dodgy situations that arose, the most of interesting of which was when a 5 metre croc actually tried to take out one of our guides' canoes! It clamped it's jaws around the back of Cloud's canoe, in full view of us only 5 feet away, but it's teeth couldn't grip the smooth tapered back of the canoe, so there were just a set of teeth marks to record the event!
Cloud and Nyenge were a pleasure to be with, and Nyenge, despite a severely inflamed and swollen hand caused by a poisonous thorn on day 2, never complained once and insisted that we carry on for the full 8 days before seeking treatment - which eventually involved some serious lancing and draining.
It was an awesome trip and exactly what he had hoped and planned for.
At Chitake, we were blown away by the fact they had set up the entire camp for just 2 x of us! I'm sure you already know how amazing it is there, but we were spellbound by the beauty and the wildlife, and Elijah, Bono and Mark were as professional, helpful and knowledgeable as Cloud and Nyenge. The real trick that all these guys managed to achieve was to always be around - but without ever being intrusive - and nothing was ever too much trouble.
All the complicated cross-country transfers worked like clockwork, in a country where lots of things don't always work, and despite many, many hours bouncing along rutted dirt roads the journeys always seeemed good fun.
I would unreservedly recommend anyone looking for this type of holiday to do what we did and use Zambezi Safari and Travel and Natureways guides.
Thank you again Mark.
With kind regards,
Paul & Debbie
