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4.8412 / 5 4.8062 / 5 4.6137 / 5 4.5216 / 5

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Female avatar icon Alyssa United States flag US       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 19, 2023

Email Alyssa  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Diverse animals and landscape with welcoming people

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South Africa has some of the most diverse landscapes and terrain I've ever seen and surprised me with how much was familiar compared with how much I did not expect to see. Lots of animals to see with lots of opportunities to see them up close, far away, and in their natural environment.

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Female avatar icon Héloïse Canada flag CA       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 15, 2023

Email Héloïse  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

diversed, stunning scenery, amazing

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south africa was an amazing beautiful and fun destination.

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Female avatar icon Janet Pellizze United States flag US       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 12, 2023

Email Janet Pellizze  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

The review below is the personal opinion of Janet Pellizze and not that of SafariBookings.

Very diverse and varied experience!

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The reserves and botanical gardens are breathtaking! I recommend seeking tours that offer transport to and from the destinations.
We found people friendly, food and activities affordable and readily accessible.

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Male avatar icon Scott Smith United States flag US       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 12, 2023

Email Scott Smith  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Saw all kinds of animals on private safari in Kruger

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We saw most of the "Big 5" animals and so many more just on our drive into Kruger National Park to Skukuza Camp. Our guide, Eric, was great a spotting animals while safely driving us. We are not true birders, but we saw many beautiful birds. Our guide was excited to point out some that were somewhat rare to see. We stayed in a "rondavel" or round, thatch roofed private building at camp. Clean, comfortable, a little spartan with a private bath, refrigerator, and some kitchen items. Our tour included meals cooked at the camp by our guide which were wonderful. Skukuza Camp is on the Sabie river with a bar & restaurant overlooking it. Large gift shop with snack foods, beer, and wine. Morning and evening safari rides in an open vehicle were cool, but with blankets from our room we were fine. We felt we saw more wildlife in Kruger with much less driving around a previous safari in Kenya. Safari vehicles are restricted to driving on the roads in Kruger which we preferred
Read more verses Kenya. Guides seemed to be friendly with each other offering siting information to each other. It was about 5 hours by van from Johannesburg Airport to Kruger NP entrance
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Male avatar icon Gopala Canada flag CA       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 10, 2023

Email Gopala  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Wonderful Trip

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Hi, We were in South Africa and arranged a Kruger Park Safari through MoAfrica Tours. Everything was just as expected and somethings were beyond our expectations. The transport to Kruger Adventure Lodge which is just 15 mins away from the Phabeni Gate was on time, pleasant (we had a good driver who even told us what to expect along the way), the staff at Kruger Adventure Lodge were absolutely awesome, great customer service and went out of their way to please us. The food was excellent, full of flavour, fresh and in good quantity. The rooms were adequate. The only thing I would like to see improved is the availability of wi-fi in the rooms. The wi-fi in the dining hall and the receptions was excellent.

We experienced an evening Safari the first day and an early morning to 4 pm safari the next day. We saw all the big 5 animals and more. Very exciting.

I want to thank MoAfrica Tours for excellent arrangements, the Kruger Adventure lodge for their excellent
Read more Hospitality and the Safari guides for their knowledge and skill. I cannot end without saying that I am super thankful to our Safari guide who went out of his way to find my cellphone which dropped off my pocket on the 119 by calling his friends and locating it resulting in me getting back my cellphone. Losing that would have ruined my holiday as all my trip information was in it.
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Female avatar icon Ilka Rivera G. Mexico flag MX       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 9, 2023

Email Ilka Rivera G.  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Like being on the red carpet of the documentary Oscars

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It is a place with a lot of cultural richness and very warm people. The safari tour was an extraordinary experience. The guides, the administration people, the ranger, I thank each and every one of the people who made it possible for us to have such an incredible experience.

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Male avatar icon Joe L United States flag US       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 8, 2023

Email Joe L  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Amazing experience between both the guides and wildlife

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My wife and I did the safari package with 2 night at umkumbe safari lodge and 2 nights in Kruger National park at skukuza. It was an incredible experience at both sites. With umkumbe being on the Sabi sands game reserve the guides are able to go off-roading and drive right up to animals if they are deeper in the bush whereas in Kruger you do have to stay to the road, however we did see some great sighting in Kruger with lions, elephants, rhino, etc all being very close to or even on the roads. We saw all of the big 5 in umkumbe and and all but leopard in Kruger. The staff was very accommodating and the food was incredible. We utilized the included shuttle service from OR Tambo airport to get to and from the safaris (about 5.5 hour drive) which went smoothly. If we were to do it again I would probably fly directly to skukuza instead but the drive was not too bad. We were on planes for about 19 hours the day before so just a lot of sitting.

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Male avatar icon Gideon Tan Singapore flag SG       Visited: May 2023 Reviewed: Jul 5, 2023

Email Gideon Tan  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Enjoyed it

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Great place for Safari viewings! This is my second trip to Kruger and I can recommend Satara Camp over Pretriouskiop which was much more touristy and crowded. Overall I would recommend Kruger NP as a great place to start on safari

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Female avatar icon Graciela Gama Mexico flag MX       Visited: May 2023 Reviewed: Jul 3, 2023

Email Graciela Gama  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Kruger Park & Johannesburg

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I’m Mexican so my review will be written with a latin point of view I hope is helpful . Johannesburg for me was a interesting city because of the shocking economical segregation, coming from a 3rd world country I thought it wouldn’t be as shocking from me but it was… you just can’t use your mobile on the streets because you could get robbed even on the best areas… I was lucky I had a host who told me all these details and gave me a tour around the real Johannesburg and saw all the actual culture which is beautiful.
Kruger park was my first safari ever and I had a great accommodation in Kriger Gate Hotel, right next to the entrance which is very convenient since you’ll start very early in the morning , food is amazing I just had the impression that the staff is a bit tired of tourists for example I did ask to the lobby manager if there was no danger of animals coming into the hotel (I saw a impala right next to my door) and she was quite dry on her explanation about how
Read more safe the place was, I just thought it was a normal care since I don’t live in Africa , examples like this were repetitive with the safari staff and the hotel staff without been really rude but just kinda tired of tourists.
Animals are all over the park you can see all of them , take 3 days to see the whole area. My experience in Mozambique was completely different, all the people was so good to me and you could feel absolutely safe everywhere but didn’t see as much animals , just by the sea.
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Female avatar icon Danielle Giardini United States flag US       Visited: March 2023 Reviewed: Jun 28, 2023

Email Danielle Giardini  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

My best trip to date

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This has been a bucket list item for so long. The Accomidations and price were great. Well organized. We were extremely lucky to see all of the big 5 the guides were great. This is a MUST DO trip.

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