An unforgettable experience! I was immensely impressed with the variety and good quality of food you served during the fifteen days on safari.
Sarah – United States - Dec 06
For those under a daily pressure, planning and plotting tomorrows plans – go to the bush, the deserts, and the swamps of Botswana with Penduka Safaris. Become one with nature, listen and look. Watch an orange sun sink beyond a pink and blue horizon, and then be followed by a million stars . . . does it matter if tomorrow ever comes?
Edward – United States - June 07
My compliments on the excellence of this journey. I was most impressed by the efficiency and excellent organisation and in particular, by our guide, Willem, who with his amazing knowledge and ability were undoubtedly the key to the success and enjoyment of this trip.
Gottlieb - Switzerland - Feb 07
When planning my trip to Africa, I decided to spend my 40th birthday away from it all. However, not in my wildest dreams did I expect a real birthday cake in the Kalahari, baked in the fire and even decorated with icing sugar! Thank you!
Brigitte – Germany - Sept 07
Being on a safari with Penduka to the Central Kalahari was exactly what I desired: wild, unexplored and beautiful.
Jan – Netherlands - Aug 06
We still talk, and will continue to talk, about our trip to Botswana with you, for without a doubt, despite all our travels elsewhere this must be the most impressive and memorable journey we have been on. I hope that we will be able to travel again with you.
Barbara & Woodrow – South Africa - March 07
My recent safari to the Okavango will always stand out in my memory. Excellent meals and attention to details that ensured our comfort and enjoyment all made it an exceptionally wonderful safari.
Brian – England - Oct 06
The only trouble is that after our wonderful safari, I am plagued by memories, find myself continually saying: “This time five weeks ago we were camping with zebra round us and lion spoor in the sand . . . “
Sue – South Africa - Sept 07
We would like to thank the whole Penduka team for this wonderful experience in the bush. Our guide provided us with such valuable information on the wildlife and most important of all, his amazing animal spotting skills.
The highlight of the trip was the afternoon spent on a vast plain watching three lions hunt a herd of zebra.
We must also mention the specially adapted vehicle with roof hatches from which we enjoyed panoramic views of the savanna.
Compliments to the bush chef, who cooked the best spaghetti Bolognese
we've ever tasted !
Sebastien & Irina - France - Aug 07
Now to our trip to Botswana, what an experience!
We loved everything!
Penduka staff greeted us at the airport and put us on a small plane to fly
us to the camp. The pilot flew nice and low and we saw animals from the air,
lot of fun. Our guide picked us up at Xakanaxa and drove us to our camp. We were greeted by 2 more staff members, a cook and a helper and our camp was all set up for us. The safari vehicle was an old International Harvester Jeep, very roomy with roof top seating. Johann took us for an evening drive and we quickly realised that the safari was going to be everything we dreamed of … and it was, thank you.
Rikus – USA - Sept 07
We would like to thank Penduka Safaris for the most enjoyable safari. Our friends are leaving South Africa this evening and are taking home very special memories. It was their second time in Botswana and I truly believe it will not be their last.
Cor – South Africa - Aug 06
We would like to express our deepest satisfaction to all the staff on our safari, they made us welcome and comfortable throughout the trip.
Cowboy is a very professional guide and absolutely the best in finding the animals.
We will recommend Penduka to everyone in Germany, who is interested in going to Botswana.
Wolfgang, Gisela and Stephan - Germany. - Aug 06
Wow, what a fantastic safari my wife and I have just had.
How did it all start?
In 1975 I was teaching Biology in a South African High School and I had decided that I must complete an African Safari before my year was up. I joined a Penduka Safari – fifteen days from Johannesburg. Africa got into my blood on that trip and I have been waiting for the opportunity to experience the thrill again of seeing large African mammals in the wild, the sunsets, the smells and the sounds, particularly at night.
In 2003 my wife and I decided to do a world tour. I suddenly realized this might be the chance to visit Africa again, so I checked the web and found that Penduka Safaris was still in operation. Emails started flying across the world and before long, my wife and I had booked a safari for December 2004.
The wildlife, the experienced guide plus team of helpers, accommodation, food and drink made this safari that my wife and I will never forgot.
Some people would say that it sounds like a trip of a lifetime. However I would say that trips of this quality are for one to enjoy many times in a lifetime if possible.
Thank you Penduka Safaris for staying there in Africa and producing very professional safaris that enable people like us to come and enjoy the whole experience of Africa. The smells, sounds and experiences are all brought back to us when we view the hundreds of photographs that we took on this Penduka Safari.
Ian - New Zealand. - 2007
Yet another fantastic safari. It was so special for us to watch our kids and theirs really getting into the swing of the routine of "camping" in the bush, and of being completely blown away by the many kinds, large numbers, and amazing nearness of all the animals we saw.
Please pass our thanks to all your staff, for their always cheerful willingness to drop everything to satisfy our every need.
Nothing will ever equal Penduka's pre-dawn "Good morning: warm water!" wakeup call, and touring all those long distances in its enclosed buses with their flip up hatches.
Finally, thank you again for all your hard work, patient sense of humor,
and the once-in-a-life-time experience you provided us and our kids.
Will and Judith - USA - July 06
How to ever thank you? You put together the most wonderful trip in all the world and with so many personal touches. From the food, to the bathrooms, game drives, warm water in the mornings etc etc, all was noticed and so appreciated. It was more than we could ever have dreamed of and so much more than a holiday. It really was a time of deep unity and in places of such awesome beauty that so often, I felt it defied description. The meeting of the bushmen was a profound experience and so wonderful for all of us but especially our children.
It is my prayer that when the time is right, we will again journey with you.... Penduka has so much to offer...we have been deeply blessed.
Paul and Alison - Cape Town, South Africa June 2010
We are a Russian ethnographic documentary studio and of all the companies that have provided location management services for us, Penduka is undeniably and incontestably the best. Not only are they in charge of finding and securing locations to be used and coordinating the logistics for film production, but they also establish contacts with the local tribes to be filmed, hold negotiations prior to and during the production; to say nothing of the fact that their assistance on-site cannot be praised enough.
Over the last couple of years, Penduka has taken us to the most enchanting and unexplored corners of Southern Africa and we look forward to discovering and filming many more.
Sergey - Russia May 2010
