Owners Ines & Christopher
Indigo Safaris
- Located In:
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United Kingdom
United States
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- ASTA, APTA, FGASA & DEMA
- Tour Types:
- Customizable private tours and fixed group tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $60 to $500 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Email Luke | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Easy communication and fantastic experiences
The trip was great! It was a really good experience and I really enjoyed all aspects of the trip. The guide, Tulimo, was fantastic and I couldn’t recommend him enough. There were only two other guests on the tour, but he made sure that it was always a lot of fun, and had a lot of interesting knowledge. The accommodation was also all fantastic, no complaints at all in that regard. The Hoada Campsite on Day 5 was switched for another one, but the switched camp site was probably the best of them all! All the experiences were highly enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed climbing the dunes in the desert. In Swakopmund I did both the skydiving and sand boarding, which were a lot of fun, (but cost extra, although very worth it!). Overall though, it was a fantastic trip and very good value for money too. Thank you very much for organising it! I even got home in time to avoid the hotel quarantine, which caused a lot of stress!
NL
Email Myriam | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best experience of my life
My boyfriend and I chose the 4 day Selous Safari and we couldn't have had better. The whole experience was mindblowing, we saw so many animals: lions, monkeys, impalas, elephants, giraffes and so many more! The lodge was super cute and very comfortable, the food was delicious and our hosts made us feel at home. I highly recommend Safari Bookings for unforgettable moments and unique activities
CH
Email Adam | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great bespoke itinerary that was proposed, discussed and booked by Very knowledgeable Ines, Indigo.
3 weeks in Tanzania including safari and time on the coast on Pemba and Zanzibar. Ines really worked well with us suggesting a great trip outline that we then talked through and tweaked so that it worked best for our family. She knew the area well and was able to make great suggestions about specific places to stay or trips to make that would be most relevant for us. All the logistics and coordination worked well and I have no qualms about the price paid which I thought was fair under the circumstances, especially given all the uncertainty and modifications that came from CVD.
I would highly recommend to others.
FR
Email Wendy | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
AMAZING experience driving from South to North !!!
We spent 12 amazing days in Namibia thanks to Ines that took care of everything: she rented our 4x4, did our program and booked all of our accomodation + transfer.
Ines was available at any time if we had a question/ request.
It’s now very difficult to travel with COVID, but Ines make it very easy by including in our itinerary stops for our PCR test.
It was amazing to travel trough Namibia discovering the dunes of Sossuvlei, Fish River Canyon but also doing our safari by our own in Etosha.
We were VERY VERY VERY surprised about the quality of all the lodges/ guesthouses that Ines booked for us. Every lodge was very clean, the staff very nice and the restaurant delicious.
I recommend INDIGO SAFARI if you want to discover Africa and especially Namibia.
We ended our holidays with 2 days in the Victoria Falls and it was also amazing.
Thank you Ines,
Thank INDIGO SAFARI
Wendy & Sophie form Paris
US
Email Ingrid | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing customer service in planning Namibia safari tour
We booked a 9-day tour of Namibia with Indigo Safaris and experienced top-notch communication pre-trip. The tour was operated by Chameleon Safaris, but Matt from Indigo handled all the planning and booking. He was super attentive, accommodating, and beyond helpful in ensuring that we had an itinerary that worked for me and my friends, which was a particularly hard task given the wide range of requirements we had due to the pandemic and travel restrictions. He even helped find locations for us to book covid testing appointments and gave us recommendations on what to do in South Africa where we spent a week before the Namibia tour. The trip ended up being one of my most memorable experiences to date, and I owe a lot of that to Matt and Indigo Safaris for making it happen :)
Email Bev | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
This tour operator provides a first class service
Communication with Indigo Safaris was excellent as our trip was planned at the last minute. All our accommodation was beyond our expectations and and the actual safari was just awesome. Thankyou for planning our perfect holiday.
Email David samms | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Fantastic trip to Namibia
Thank you Ines for organising a fantastic trip to Namibia. After working as a tour guide in Africa for Guerba 19 ago years for 5 years I wanted to take my family back to see what I had experienced. To organise a trip to Namibia at fairly sort notice at peak season you did wonders, your speed at replying to any requests, questions and keeping us informed was great. The trip itself was wonderful the only thing we had an issue with and could have been highlighted was when we got to the airport at Heathrow we were informed by Virgin that we needed birth certificates for our children to enter Namibia otherwise we couldn’t board the plane. A hour of frantically making phone calls and getting them scanned and sent to us got it sorted. So just a caution to any one else taking kids under 18 to Namibia. Apart from that everything ran smoothly and was a wonderful experience. The only place we were disappointed with was AfriCat due to our expectations from their website and all the signs as we entered the game park, that we would be seeing a range of African carnivores from Lions, Leopards and Cheetahs to Wild Dogs. In actual fact we were only taken to see 7 captive cheetahs, and their stated aim of the rehabilitation of these animals and was no longer happening. We were charged a lot and felt disappointed with the tour we had.
I would recommend Indigo to all my friends and colleagues so thank you again Ines for all your hard work in organising our trip, you gave us a truly wonderful and fantastic trip our family will never forget. We will be booking again with you THANK YOU
Reply from Indigo Safaris
Posted on Aug 20, 2019Hi David, thank you for your feedback, we love making people's travel dreams come true, and Ines and Corinne are specialists in the art.
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy Okonjima and the Africat Foundation. Okonjima is a lion-free reserve, it is never promoted as a lion area, neither by the reserve or us. The Africat Foundation's lion project is in northern Namibia, and this is explained on their website and in situ.
Okonjima has different optional activities. One is a visit to the foundation, where they explain the conservation challenges facing African felines and other carnivores, and show the facilities they have for hosting injured and orphaned animals. The number and type of animals in house changes constantly and there is no guarantee that their will be any Wild Dogs in for care.
The orphaned cheetah that the clients are guaranteed to see are habituated to humans due to the necessity of being hand-reared and thus cannot be returned to the wild. In fact, the foundation stopped releasing rehabilitated cheetah onto the reserve at the beginning of 2019 due to increased post-release mortality from inter-species competition with the healthy leopard and brown hyena populatons. A link to a report explaining why in more detail can be found here.
https://africat.org/cheetah-research/
Given the conservation challenges facing the declining cheetah population, particularly in Namibia, I'm glad they do what they do, and seeing seven cheetah at once could be considered an excellent opportunity to observe and photograph these beautiful felines, of which there are barely 7000 left, up close.
The 550 Namibian dollar (approximately 37 USD) fee charged per adult (half-price for kids) goes to the running costs of the foundation and the excellent work they do at Okonjima and their northern reserve.
To see leopard, one needs to sign up for the optional leopard tracking game drive. They take place twice daily and involve a 3-hour game drive in an open-sided 4x4, looking for some of the wild leopards that have been collared for research purposes. For some, this is one of the highlights of their Namibian experience, and rounds off a trip nicely as leopard are notoriously hard to see normally, and this activity presents the best chance of seeing them in the wild in the country.
There are also guided and unguided Bush walks in the predator-free area close to the lodge, the unguided walks are free. I believe it's a good place to stop off between Etosha and Windhoek. I will make sure we point out that it is understood that there are no lions there, that Wild Dogs are not always being treated.
Best regards,
Christopher Bartlett
Managing Director
Email Debbie and Derek Payne | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Dream come True - 19 day Namibian/Victoria Falls/Botswana Adventure
We would happily recommend indigo safaris to organise your holiday. We had a few ideas on what we would like to do, the accommodation type and travelling we were happy with, but were struggling to put it all together. Ines responded quickly to our request, and sent us ideas on how to collate our trip to Namibia, Victoria falls and Botswanna. We exchanged a few e mails, and, everything fell into place very easily. Payment was simple through a gb account.
Our trip turned out to be be far better than we imagined. Everything went smoothly apart from a delayed flight with Namibian Airways. Our guide Rudi was a star throughout our tour of Namibia. He had a passion for his country and its peoples and wild life which he shared with us throughout our trip. We always felt safe in his care, and he went out of his way to help us enjoy our first visit to Africa. His knowledge of his country was extensive and we were sad to see our trip come to an end. Expect very bumpy roads and long days, with early starts but it was worth every bump to experience such diversity. The landscape is stunning.
After leaving Namibia, we flew to Victoria Falls, which is needless to say a must see. The sunset cruise on the Zambezi is lovely, but our early morning experience of a lion encounter was incredible. It's a must do.
We flew into the Okovango delta in a light aircraft and stayed two nights at Odd balls camp. If you want to have time out this is the place to go! The delta was very low on water but we enjoyed the trekking walks with our guide who again was a fountain of knowledge. We were lucky enough to come across lions on our very last morning.
Thank you Ines, it's been an amazing Trip. Your help and guidance made it happen.
Debbie and Derek Payne
Email Kaylene | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
100% Perfect!
Right from the first email Ines from Indigo Safaris was amazing. I left things a bit late to organise so availability was the main issue. Ines found lots of options for our trip and worked within our requests. Everything went smoothly,not a single hitch. We did a fly in lodge safari in Botswana before spending a few days in Victoria Falls. All our accommodation was perfectly suited to our small family.
So happy I stumbled across Indigo Safaris and would 100% recommend them
Thank you Ines :-)
PL
Email Lucy | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Perfect Botswana tour:)
Everything was really perfectly arranged, all transfers were on time and we were welcomed at the reception desks.
We liked chosen accommodation very much and order of our route was also well thought out.
We appreciate all efforts and the result:)!
Contact was easy, fast, nice and productive:)
