Wilderness Safaris

... with my Aunt Ingrid and her husband Steve to East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania). We'll be gone for 19 days on the safari of our dreams! We're heading out into the wilderness with the most trusted safari guides in the world~ thank you Micato Safaris.

... - we understood why! Agent and camp references - Agent: http://www.atoasafaris.com (Our contact is Mrs. Shy Perez-Sala) - Camps in Botswana: The Vumbura Plains and The Mombo are both establishments of Wilderness Safaris, ...

... have visions of being a byline in the newspaper... “TOURISTS KILLED IN BOTSWANA. Today a safari jeep from Duma Tau wilderness camp with 6 aboard, including a guide, a husband and wife from California and a mother, daughter and daughter in law from ...

... to get to Purnululu National Park, a world heritage listed park and then to find this wonderful oasis called Bungle Bungle Wilderness Lodge. Thank goodness we have the Britz Xtreme 4WD vehicle to drive across the perilous and often challenging 52 km of ...

... (again!), right on the edge of a river in which swam pirhanas galore and freshwater dolphins.  The highlights of the trip were safaris:  we did a river safari and a jeep safari.  Our guide Tony was a maniac, he was crazy about the ...

Richard and I had no idea what to expect from this trip.  We were novices to safaris as it were so a cessna plane ride to the heart of the Okavango delta was beyond our dreams.  We were met by our wonderful guide, Johnny and when we arrived we ...

... boat ride, most of the jungle has been destroyed....but our little camp was in a little bit of remaining jungle. Day, night and river "safaris" to go looking for wildlife, and this is what I saw. Wow, was it ever hot and sweaty! Unless Uncle Tan ...

... from the plane.  A short while later we landed at Drakenya airstrip and were greeted by Champion. Our next stop is: Wilderness Safaris' Mana Canoe Trails - Ruckomechi Camp  Champion was a great sport & kindly supplied us with water. I ...

... , belt buckles, female napkins and newborn babies Our Ugandan Sophie’s Choice Moment to this point – a guide with Wilderness Safaris tour company posed the following questions: “It is good tour? You like Wilderness Safaris?” ...

... lots more "yikes!"-ing from Kirsten as the little plane bounced around. On arrival, we were met by the local operator, Wilderness Safaris, and transferred to our hotel, the Zambezi Sun. The Wilderness Safaris folks were nice, but a little disorganized. ...

... a dose of reality after a week of real beds, while my folks were in a chalet.  Mvuu is owned and operated by Wilderness Safaris, and it’s a great spot.   We were allocated the same guide/driver for all our 'safaris’ while we ...

... so had lots of space and met interesting people including a US / Canadian who was working in the north of the country for Wilderness Safaris.  The drive was 5 hours and we arrived in the busy city of Windhoek for lunchtime.  Feeling rested and ...

... narrow shed, irrigation, greenhouses, lots of crop circles. This is very different than the view above Zimbabwe.  James from Wilderness Safaris escorted us to the security screening area & once we passed through & sat down we were greeted by ...

... the National Park is beautiful, with amazing stretches of river serving as gathering points for large variety of game. Unfortunately, however, Wilderness Safaris have the monopoly here, and unless you forking out a couple of grand in greenbacks you ain't ...

... after dinner . he was eating the night away. Sat Sep 18  Palmwag After breakfast we went for a 2 hour walk with a local Wilderness Safaris guide….Lloyd, MM and I.  It was nice to be out and walking around, learning about rocks, and plants ...

... the track there is the main attraction of the park, a giant Hippo pool. We are of course not alone in this mini wilderness. There are about ten or twelve other vehicles parked around the Hippo pool fence, and everyone is trying to shoot the famous gaping ...

... . And we head to the Animal Kingdom, newest of the 4 parks, which is exceptionally empty this morning. We make a run for Kilimanjaro Safaris to avoid the line, but we waited no more than 5 minutes! And, sadly, I would have enjoyed a little more of a wait ...

... ; The herbivores and the carnivores were not really interested in each other! As I tried to make the most of our last evening in the wilderness of Kenya, my mind drifted back to the last night safaris we had been to.  Many years back, in 1991.  ...