Exploring South Africa, Victoria Falls & Botswana

Accommodations were excellent as was our tour guide and our drivers for the game drives. I love that Collette includes a meal with a local family as it gives you a real feeling for the country. During your free time the tour director gives you excellent ideas as to what you might want to do. I highly recommend Collette!

The tour itself was great. Our traveling companions, less so. Meals were hijacked by half the participants, insisting on a denominational prayer before meals and the tour manager did not stop this practice despite suggestions that the prayers be made silently or at least non-denominationally. Most memorable experiences were nature made: double rainbow over Victoria Falls, and sunsets over the Chobe River.

The land and water safaris were no doubt the best experience that I had. The food was average. The lodging was interesting and very different. I did not care for the big cities.

Going on the safaris and seeing the animals in their own habitat and how they react to vehicles going through the area they live in. Learning about the culture of the people living in Africa.

They were the Safaris and seeing the animals in their natural habitat, and learning the cultures.

Safari's in Botswana and Victoria Falls

Safari in Botswana and Victoria Falls

Everything was an adventure and experience!!

David Smith was awesome! I would have preferred less time in Capetown and more time in Botswana.

The tour was an outstanding experience.

Great trip, top 5 so far.

I just loved the different experiences. First I must say our tour guide Mr Dube was outstanding. He was very personable and made everyone feel inclusive, and he was very knowledgeable about all the places we went to… what tour guide would start clearing tables at one of the hotels that was not ready for us for our scheduled dinner..Dube jumped right in to help set up for us… I know he provided feedback to hotel manager.. all ended up great!!! The Safari game drives were my favorite all 7 of them in Chobe and Pilanisburg. Dube had a great relationship with the game drivers and was so knowledgeable himself. Again he made sure we were all comfortable. Also loved Victoria Falls, a spectacular place and so beautiful. Somerset West wine country was also awesome… too bad TSA confiscated my Simple Sugars I purchased but my fault for putting in my carry on, lesson learned. Again Dube knew all the staff and made our day special and made sure we enjoyed… Lunch at a second winery was also wonderful… CapeTown was so beautiful, just as friends who have gone said. Table Mountain Inclinator was spectacular, what a view… Boulder Cliff was also beautiful and entertaining, again Dube knew all about the penguins!!!! On our free day we went to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and glad we did as it was a beautiful place and we had a wonderful delicious lunch at Moyo and Fynkos Tea Room. The Farewell Dinner at Gold Restaurant was so much fun, playing the drums in unison with folks from all over the world and the authentic dinner we had was wonderful. I so enjoyed this trip and the memories will never leave. Re hotels each one was different in its own way and beautiful. Dube was also outstanding about getting us from country to country, though Customs, on buses , on planes, boats etc. my only complaint if I may was with British Air. They do not make it easy to get seats unless you want to pay extra and we already had upgraded to economy plus. The night before leaving I stayed up till midnight trying to select seats, only to have to place a call to find out site was down and we had no choice but to get seats at the airport and me and my husband could not sit together on any of the 4 flights…. Bummer. All in All we had a wonderful adventure, made new friends. Loved our group, we had a lot of laughs and fun. Looking forward to to our next adventure looking at Alaska cruise with Ford. We are attending a presentation by Fords at The Grand this coming week..