Kalahari Skies
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 1994)
- Member Of:
- Hopitality & Tourism Association of Botswana
- Tour Types:
- Mid-range tours with set start dates and a fixed itinerary
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $220 to $1,000 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Best guide, support, animal sightings, overall experience!
I have been on 5 safari trips throughout Africa. Newman is by far the best guide I have ever worked with. The support team was on top of every detail of our trip. We had the best time!
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Email Philip and Mary Beth Cohen | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We had the Kalahari and Okavango all to ourselves with Kalahari Skies.
I searched the reviews for safaris on Safaribookings and followed their advice. Eddy Everaerdt of Kalahari Skies got back to us quickly. His advice was spot on. He suggested that if our time was flexible we should consider late May rather than busy July. He said that it sounded like we would like a mobile safari rather than being in the lodges. It turned out that the airfare was much cheaper in May. It was late Fall in Botswana. He asked me to tell him what I hoped to see, so I sent him my wish list. He designed a 15 day mobile safari for my wife and me. It turned out far better than any of our expectations!
Kalahari Skies took care of all of the arrangements, except airfare. I told Eddy that I would like to meet some Bushmen, see animals, learn about the natural environment, see the central Kalahari as well as the Okavango delta, and see Victoria Falls. It all happened for us!!! The tents with en-suite shower and toilet were the most comfortable camping experience of our lives! Eddy has the best camping spots scoped out. We had two nights in lodges and one in a hotel the rest was camping. We stayed 3 nights in Central Kalahari Game preserve, and two nights each in Moremi, Khwai, Savuti, and Chobe.
We started at a Thakadu Lodge in Ghanzi for our Bushman experience. It was beyond excellent! Bushmen took us on a walk, showed us various plants, explained some tracking and made a fire in a few minutes with sticks. That evening they put on an intimate dance and song performance. We had a surprise visit to the vulture restaurant which is not to be missed!
Although the Okavango is extraordinarily rich with wildlife, my favorite was the perfect remoteness of the Central Kalahari.
Eddy knows his animals and birds and was able to answer our many questions with great expertise. Even if you are not a birder, the birds of Botswana will make you want to be one.
During the trip every meal was prepared for us. Everyone showed great concern that we have what we wanted. Eddy noticed that we were drinking something we hadn't mentioned and immediately stocked up. He noticed that I liked hot sauce and made sure that there were several for me to choose from. Each home cooked dinner had a starter, soup or salad, main course and a dessert. All were very, very good, some were downright amazing.
Eddy is from Belgium and speaks French, German, and very good English. He also has native Botswana guides, Nueman, Gideon, and Mott who are fluent in English. Mott also speaks German. They all lead safaris.
Eddy's wife, Manu, was along, in charge of the kitchen for most of our trip. She is an inspired cook. We also had two wonderful Botswana, Mateo and Ez, preparing meals and camp. All four work as a team and were a joy to travel with making each camping site a relaxing and comfortable experience.
Our guide was an expert at knowing where to locate the animals and the wealth of wildlife we were able to see from lions, leopards and cheetah to honey badgers, bat-eared foxes, mongoose, and eagle owls was amazing!!! When you are in the vehicle you are safe yet able to get very close.
Kalahari Skies made all of our arrangements for Victoria Falls as well. They have local guides in Zimbabwe and, I am sure, Zambia. They also do safaris in Namibia.
We highly, highly recommend Kalahari Skies and their mobile safari experience!!!
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Email Lovisa | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic service and friendly
Our visit with Kalahari Skies was phenomenal. Our guide, Rex, gave us the best experience in the Moremi reserve. He went above and beyond to catch sight of as many animals as possible. We stayed in tents for two night, with wild animals walking freely outside our tents during the night. An incredible experience. The crew had a well prepared dinner ready for us when we came back from a game drive. They even met up with us in the reserve once, and set up a table with a cooked meal. Exceptional service and a great treatment by the employees. Many interesting conversations and always nice. Thank you so much!
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Email Nicole | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best in Botswana
Thank you Eddy , Mano and the crew , you give me during 12 days the best vacation ever. !
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Email Celine | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
amazing, unique experience
the best safari ever!!! with my family we did 10 day safari in tended camp with Eddy and his team. difficult to express in words the amazing, unique feelings we have experienced. everything was perfectly organized and managed, with professionality and much passion. Eddy is an excellent guide, makes yo live the savanna as nobody else can do. he knows everything about wildlife and share his knowledge as well as interesting anecdotes while driving during the day and chatting around the fire in the evening. His wife Manu and their assistants prepared for us amazingly delicious food every day, always attentive to our taste and needs. the experience of the tended camp allow to really feel the beauty of the nature....makes you feeling part of it. just need to be conscious and respectful of its rules. next safari? certainly with Eddy and in tended camp!
Email Mariangel | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome
This trip was a caress for my soul and will remain etched in my memory forever.
Love from Graciela & Mariangel
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Email Emiel | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Extraordinary experience, thanks to Kalahari Skies
Our first safari ever was a complete success. Everything was perfectly organized and managed: the exciting game drives, the excellent cooking, the careless staying in the tented camps.
Eddy showed us a wonderful piece of Botswana nature of which he seems to know every animal and every tree. His knowledge about fauna and flora is incredible. Together with Mano, Leonard and Tumelo he made this trip an extraordinary experience that we will never forget.
Emiel & Lydia
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Email Stefan | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Best Safari operator we ever had
After travelling on Safaries - especially in Botswana, Namibia and Souh Africa - we travelled with Kalaharie Skies in April from Maun to Victoria Falls.
The crew is astonishing how they work in this enviroment. One had nothing to do but sit relax and enjoy the sorrounding. The meals cooked have been amazing when you realise the conditions in the bush they have to work with. The tents and the camp are wonderful, nearly as you have your own home along. As you are in the wilderness, you can not expect that you will see all the animals, but Eddy tried and found everything for us, from large elephant herds to the leopard babie.
And the arrangement had been 100% (scinic Okavango flight, Chobe river cruise, transport to Vic falls).
We will come back
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Email Jannie | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A great journey to different landscapes of Botswana
We ( 2 couples, we were 15 times on safari's) were 12 days with Eddy and it was a great time. He has been in Botswana for 21 years and his knowledge is exceptionel, where everybody goes right he goes left, for he "knows" what te animals are doing. For example: we saw a leopard ( one of the three this journey) other cars go into the bush in Savuti, we turn around and go to an open spot and after a while she walks towards us and we where right in front. His wife Monu is a great cook and Easy and Tumello, who helped, are fine guys. Tumello will be a great cook too.
Some things we did. A nice walk with the Meerkat. You walk for an hour or so with them and you can see perfect how they dig for food and give the first things to the little ones.
Had also a walk with the San people. They told us how they used the bush for food and medicines. Very interesting.
In Deception Valley we saw big herds of oryx and springbok. And a lot of bat-eared foxes. Great. Our last night we heard the lions rore and footprints around the camp. After 5 minutes on the road there were 5 lions with full bellies, when they walked further a lionkill of an oryx was there with an other 5 lions.
In Nxai Pan stood we walked between the famous Baines Baobabs. Not so many animals.
Then a long day to Khwai River. In those 3 days we took almost 1000 pictures. It was a super spot. The first evening 2 leopards. The next day wild dogs, mating lions and all kinds of birds.
The last place was Savuti. Here was the high light the herd of 150 elefants coming to drink and play in the pools.
To do a mobile safari has the adventige that you camp where the animals are, you are part of nature. The tents are very comfortable.
For us was the fact that Eddy speaks Dutch a great extra.
Groet,
Julia, Jannie, Jan en Willem
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Email Martin & Ina | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Out of Africa with dreamlike meals
We (my wife and me) stayed 5 nights with three kalahari skies guys. Spokes realized very soon our ideas of a relaxed safari and was a perfect guide. T.C. and Dumelo were the guys in the background, responible for a lot of fun and the best meals we ever had in the bush.
Thank you, we had a great time.