Awesome trip with even more awesome guides with amazing birding skills. Many thanks to Chip for leading and organizing our activities! And Carly was a definite bonus with her deep biological + birding knowledge, as well as her keen eyes and ears. I'm very impressed with both of them for their ability to instantly recognize bird species - especially when they were flying quickly by us. I was also very impressed with Chip's deep botanical and animal knowledge, providing great insights to both the areas we visited and their relationships to birds there. His vast nature experiences were obvious with all of his background explanations of the locations, and his high energy enthusiasm was great!

The trip was everything I wanted. Great group. Great guides. Very organized. Thanks so much. Joan Cloud

We had an amazing time with all the different experiences we had in Africa. We experienced the city and food scene in Cape Town, as well as the wildlife and nature. We enjoyed the Rovos Train, but it’s a one and done. We loved visiting the archaeological digs in Johannesburg as well as the knowledgable and humorous guide. We loved the elephant camp in Zimbabwe and our first game drive. Visiting Rwanda, with its museum, varied culture, and gorillas was amazing. The gorilla trek may have been the highlight of our trip. The week of game drives with Sosy was absolutely amazing. Apparently we saw things that are fairly unusual to see. We can see ourselves going back to Tanzania. We enjoyed visiting Kenya, but we would have rather explored Nairobi for a day than to have gone to Ololo. We did not care for the place in more than one aspect., including the awful swinging bridge to enter their facility. We enjoyed Meru. The lodge, the guide, and the overall experience were lovely. We were satisfied with Amboseli, but underwhelmed. We would have preferred to have gone on to Zanzibar instead of this experience. We loved Zanzibar. The resort, the staff, the food, the overall exotic experience were beyond fabulous. It was certainly a once in a lifetime trip until our next adventure.