Hwange full day game-drive tour
Cultural Vibes Travel & Tours
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- Zimbabwe Tourism Authority
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $100 to $750 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Alvin L. Burch | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Tongesai accomodated our every need and provided outstanding info for our trips near Victoria Falls.
Our trip included a river trip and safari into Chobe in Botswana, travel to Vic Falls from Cosane, sunset cruise on the Zambezi, safari to Livingstone game preserve, helicopter trip over Vic Falls, walking tour at Vic Falls, and accommodations at a tent camp in Vic Falls. Tongesai was very professional and instrumental is setting up the entire trip, and his coordination was very well done. He also made us feel much more comfortable by providing information about stores and available services, information about the countries, their cultures, and the protocols. As amateur overseas travelers, this allowed us to embrace much more about the visited areas than just seeing and enjoying the wildlife. We felt like we had not only a trip coordinator, but a personal tour guide and a personal liaison with the people. This meant so much to us, and I believe this is an important element of your business...to provide this kind of care for an area considered very remote for most people visiting from overseas. Thank you for the experience, kindness, and personal care.
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Email Ryan Burch | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We toured Chobe, Victoria Falls and went on a Game Drive in Stanley Livingston - Amazing!
Tongesai was absolutely fantastic. Every step of the tour he built for us worked like clockwork. Seriously...he picked us up from the airport, handled every small element of the trip and was an utmost professional. I had never booked a trip from overseas, and I was skeptical of putting my trust in someone so far away. Tongesai was the right choice, and I can't tell you how much I would recommend him to any others.
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Email Jonathan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Thanks, Tongesai!
Great experience with Tongesai. He came to our hotel to explain everything and answer questions the day before, then picked us up and drove us out to Sable Sands, which was an excellent experience. Picked us up again for the return trip to Victoria Falls. Also runs a music shop at Elephant's Walk shopping center in town. Very friendly, helpful, and reliable.
Possibly the best part of our 2.5 week Zimbabwe trip.
Hi there,
Tongesai was fantastic and Sable Sands at Hwange Park was perhaps the best part of our trip. I don't usually write reviews for things unless they were awful, hehe, but Tongesai's assistance and the Sable Sands Safari were fantastic. Tongesai even introduced us to other folks in Victoria Falls that we were hoping to meet to discuss some business things we had.
He was on time, a quick communicator and so helpful.
Thank you!
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Email Jodi | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing Four Day Tour of Victoria Falls and Chobe National Park
I was in South Africa for work, and wanted to spend the weekend seeing sights beyond South Africa. So I set my sights on Zimbabwe and Botswana and used Cultural Vibes Travel & Tours to book my visit. Everything was very smooth from the pre-travel communication to the actual weekend travel. Tongesai was very professional, and my tour followed the itinerary exactly, with no hiccups. The Hotel, Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, felt a little worn, but that completely faded away as I sat overlooking elephants, giraffes and impalas drinking from the watering hole facing the hotel. The highlight of my trip was reading on my balcony with a family of elephants eating the brush directly below! Additional highlights of the weekend were the helicopter ride of Victoria Falls and the private tour Tongesai provided of the falls themselves. I also enjoyed walking through town and heading to Botswana to see the Chobe National Park, home of an amazing number of elephants. Thank you Tongesai for making my short visit one I will remember!
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Email Mark Pritchard | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Professional tour planning with a local operator
Tongesai provided professional service with excellent communications to arrange our three day Hwange safari at Sable Sands. Tongesai and his company can arrange many different personalized trip itineraries and tours, but we only had him help with the safari booking and transport to Sable Sands. He provided clean, safe transport with excellent driving (he drove us himself). Sable Sands itself is an excellent safari lodge with professional guides that we greatly enjoyed. Sitting at dinner watching the staff encourage elephants to move off the lodge grounds, and being kept awake listening to elephants splashing in the water hole and trumpeting outside our hut is a particular memory.
In all, we felt Cultural Vibes provided a good value and professional booking service. Payment was simple using a secure bank payment system (a sort of PayPal), and much cheaper than bank transfers. Tongesai also has a shop in the Elephant Walk shopping area, and we got some batik table runners there.
Email imogen | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
an amazing day of safari in Hwange with an expert tour guide
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the best thing about the tour was Simba, the incredibly knowledgable tour guide, who made it a brilliant day
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Email Mr Ole Moll | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent service, meeting the needs of the customer
Tongasai from Cultural vibes Travel & tours did pick us up personally in Budlawayo and drove us to the Nwange Lodge for over night stay.After the game the next day , he did drive us to Vic falls. On the way we discussed potential events in Vic falls. Tonagesai did suggest a lot of good events and helped us book these events even though we did arrive late . He also picked us up at the lodge in Vic falls the next day and drove us to the vic falls and back. Very good service
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Email Alexandra L. | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great Service, Highly recommended
We booked our trip with Tongesai and we were very impressed and pleased with all of the services. We were a bit apprehensive at first since there weren't many reviews and since we had to wire money beforehand, however, Tongesai was very thoughtful and communicative and provided us with an ideal itinerary. He ensured that all of our activities and travel accommodations were seamless and the tours he set up were amazing. I would highly recommend doing the Devil's pool at the Royal Livingstone Hotel. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide us with suggestions that based our interest. Thank you, Tongesai for a very memorable trip!
Email Ms Judy Johnston | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Highly professional, friendly, extremely reliable, an absolute pleasure to manage my package
My experience with Cultural Vibes, Mr Tongesai Mutematsaka, was outstanding, with efficient and speedy communications, extremely reliable and dependable service in terms of collections, timing etc. The resort recommended, Ivory Lodge, was first class and highly recommended for a quality and comfortable stay. Overall, value for money, friendliness and reliability, I cannot recommend Cultural Vibes and Tours highly enough and it was my pleasure to support him for a true Zimbabwean experience.