Client Testimonials

As our team of travel consultants bustled into Monday morning with their trademark hustle, and my PC flickered to life, I wondered how my client, Jim and his wife, had settled back into ‘civilization’ after the Botswana safari we designed for them, incorporating a very special request: a return to Kwando Lagoon… Dear Lise, As I mentioned in an earlier Read More

Seeing Mountain Gorillas in their natural habitat is right up there on my bucket list. For now I’ll have to be content with living vicariously through our lucky clients who go Gorilla Trekking in either Rwanda or Uganda and then send us their trip reports. Liesl (who has been gorilla trekking) recently put an intensive Read More

The team at African Safari Consultants recently received this amazingly positive feedback from the McClays, for whom we’d organised their dream African safari. Donna McClay was kind enough to provide us with some excerpts of her travel diary, which we’ve included below. Enjoy!

Tom and I are now at almost the end of our time at our Londolozi stay and it has been absolutely incredible. I never dreamed of seeing all the things that we have seen:  a lion pride eating a giraffe that they killed a couple of days before, a small herd of about 20 elephants just walking Read More

Jeff and Lise, We are sorry to report that we are home. We are thrilled to report that every aspect of the trip was amazing.  I am in the process of downloading photos as we write this and can’t wait to go through them and relive every minute.  We can’t thank you enough for the superb Read More

Hi Liesl and Jeff: We really enjoyed our trip to Grootbos and Ulusaba.  Even my 14 year old son loved it– you know how cynical teenagers can be.  He even used the word “awesome.” We’d like to send a special shout-out to Annie at Ulusaba.  She was the perfect combination of guide and family friend. Thanks Read More

Hi Liesl and Jeff: We really enjoyed our trip to Grootbos and Ulusaba.  Even my 14 year old son loved it– you know how cynical teenagers can be.  He even used the word “awesome.” We’d like to send a special shout-out to Annie at Ulusaba.  She was the perfect combination of guide and family friend. Thanks Read More

Hi Liesl, Thanks for the email.  We had an amazing time in South Africa.  everything worked out smoothly with our car rental, and the two lodges Gomo Gomo and Elephant Plains were awesome.  We would definitely recommend both lodges to anyone.  The wildlife was terrific, the food and accommodation top-notch, and the staff (particularly at Gomo Gomo) Read More

Hi Liesl, Thanks for the email.  We had an amazing time in South Africa.  everything worked out smoothly with our car rental, and the two lodges Gomo Gomo and Elephant Plains were awesome.  We would definitely recommend both lodges to anyone.  The wildlife was terrific, the food and accommodation top-notch, and the staff (particularly at Gomo Gomo) Read More

Brian Kalchbrenner recently returned from the African Safari of his dreams, including Sir Richard Branson’s beautiful Ulusaba lodge in South Africa. Brian had the following to say to his African Safari Consultant guru…