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Our self-drive trip for two in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe was a dream.
Mr Meyer's perfect organisation was outstanding. Everything worked out brilliantly!

We experienced a wonderful mix of impressive nature, glorious colours, friendly people everywhere and incredibly great wildlife.

The people we met love their country and, on excursions and game drives, walks and boat trips, gave us an insight into another world that we will draw on for a long time.

It was a trip like none we have ever had before! Thank you so much!

We liked this trip very much. From Maun to Victoria Falls everything worked out perfectly. We were very well and kindly looked after by our guide.

The advice was very competent. Ms Larissa Walter made the trip sound appealing to us, rightly so!

Very good suggestions and wonderfully worked-out options.

Considering that we were able to travel as a mini-group, we felt like kings in paradise. Together with our guide we could enjoy the safaris as we pleased. No rush, we had plenty of time for impressive moments.

The price was justified and the services excellent.

Our guide, Mr Kaiser Mbwe, is simply the best!!!

He practically anticipated our every wish, very helpful and at all times very friendly and competent.

We did not have to worry about anything; everything worked to our complete satisfaction.

The route we chose unconsciously, but it was totally right. First the “dry side”, then the “wet side” was extremely impressive. Pure nature, the many animals in the respective areas, we were totally thrilled.

Every day was “just another beautiful day in paradise”. All the lodges were totally well chosen. The helpful and nice people everywhere. Animals right up to the lodges invited hours of observation. Fantastic, indescribable.

The accommodation after the safari, Courtney Lodge, is very nicely located, a little secluded. You feel as if you are in an idyllic, wonderful park and can enjoy the peace. Only the noise of the flights of the fly-in safaris over Victoria Falls was somewhat disturbing.

Overall impression: overwhelming, thrilled and very satisfied. However, we will not be making any further trips to Africa. The nice people we met in the lodges said we were “crazy people” to still be taking such trips at our age….

Our round trip through southern Africa was an unforgettable experience! The route offered a perfect mix of desert, sea, safari adventure and the majestic Victoria Falls – plus impressive landscapes and fascinating flora and fauna.

Thanks to our likeable and extremely experienced guide we felt very well looked after at all times. The accommodation was varied – partly luxurious, partly rather basic. Especially with the high temperatures, we would have liked air conditioning in some lodges.

We were especially thrilled by the diversity of the wildlife: we actually got to see all of the “Big Five” and gained deep insights into the lives and behaviour of the animals.

The encounters with the other travellers were also very pleasant – a great group with many lovely shared moments.

In Botswana we experienced beautiful landscapes, but it was very touristy there. Because of the large number of boat safaris, the animals are noticeably disturbed in their habitat in places – that gave us pause for thought.

The programme overall was very extensive, which meant the days were often long and intense. Unfortunately that left little time to enjoy the lodges, as there was a change of location almost every day. Around the middle of the trip it would have been nice to spend a second night in the same lodge, to come to rest a little and experience the surroundings more intensively.

Conclusion:
A breathtaking trip that we will never forget – full of natural wonders, exciting impressions and unforgettable encounters.

From 22 June 2025 to 20 July 2025 we travelled in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

We travelled for 18 days as self-drivers through Namibia and then for 12 days on a small-group tour through Botswana with a stay in Zimbabwe to see Victoria Falls.

It was an absolute dream trip, which Ms Petersen of Elefant-Tours put together for us. The daily routes were well planned, not too long, so that we could often still go on game drives in the afternoon; the lodges, guesthouses and tented camps were simply top-notch.

Everything worked out superbly. Our highlights were lots and lots of animals at Etosha Pan, the helicopter flight over Victoria Falls and, finally, the stay at Setari Camp in the Okavango Delta. Simply incredibly beautiful.

We can only recommend Elefant Reisen. This dream trip was absolutely outstanding.

It was a wonderful trip through Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The care from Elefant-Tours was very good. The trip was perfectly organised and our guide Mathias very obliging and friendly. We felt very comfortable and travelled home a little wistful but with many lovely impressions.

In May 2025 we travelled through Namibia, Botswana and, to finish, the impressive Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe on a 24-day, individually put-together self-drive tour.

Almost a year in advance, Nicole Petersen supported us with the planning. She turned our wishes and ideas into reality promptly and worked out suitable proposals. She also implemented requests for changes straight away, was always reachable, reliable and friendly – every phone call with her made us look forward to our trip even more.

A great service – heartfelt thanks, Nicole!

We were delighted by the personal meeting in Swakopmund , which confirmed our very positive impression. The self-drive briefing with Sven Schmidt offered by Elefant-Tours was also very helpful for a relaxed car trip through Namibia.

Namibia is a fantastic country!

The endless expanses, varied landscapes, very hospitable people who always welcomed us warmly, fascinating, exciting wildlife encounters and the great lodges in special places left us with unforgettable memories.

Many thanks to Elefant-Tours, but especially to Nicole Petersen, for the perfect organisation of our trip.

An unforgettable Africa trip!

A perfectly organised 18-day trip through Namibia and Botswana to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Heartfelt thanks to Ms Kassler of Elefant Tours, especially for the excellent advice and the very good coordination of the schedule and selection of lodges.

We will always remember this fantastic trip

Marion Heidenreich and Birgit Binjung

We enjoyed 16 wonderful days through Namibia and Botswana to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, saw impressive landscapes and many animals. Every evening we looked forward to what great lodge was waiting for us. The lodges were mostly smaller and more personal, which we liked very much. We were surprised by the great menus at white-clothed tables by the fireplace or with a view of nocturnal visitors at the waterhole. At some lodges we would have loved to stay longer, e.g. Mushara Bush Camp or Malansrus Tented Camp! What a trip!

We were of course very lucky to be only 2 couples + our guide Victor, which meant he could take personal wishes into account and we had generous space in the jeep. We think this type of vehicle is very good in general, very robust, lots of space!

Thank you very much for the perfect planning, starting with Benjamin, who gave us an informative introduction! Our special thanks go to our guide Victor from Namibia-Experience, who accompanied us on this special trip and drove with great experience. Even through a sandstorm! We learned a lot about the country and its people, about plants and animals, and you can tell that he loves this country!

Conclusion: a great group with a super guide on a unique trip!

We will definitely recommend Elefant-Tours!

Best wishes

we are back safely in Austria and gained many unforgettable impressions on this trip.

Thank you very much for the planning, organisation, your patience and the service!

We have never had a travel agency with this quality of service and such extensive sources of information (app, advance planning, tips).

From the start we felt in the best hands and well advised with you – and this was confirmed on site too. The lodges and the campsites were flawless (except Okaukuejo, but we expected that).

The rain spared us – only at the airport on the flight home did the first proper thunderstorm catch us 🙂

The roads were also better than expected, and thanks to Sven's tips on the route we were able to avoid the worse tracks.

The route change via Savuti and Khwai definitely paid off – that section (despite the deep-sand track) was one of our absolute highlights!

It was a fantastic, wonderful trip from Victoria Falls to Botswana and back to Victoria Falls. Standing at the Falls, viewing them from the air, the wildlife simply superb all round.

Very special thanks to Ms Brode and the team; with questions you never had to wait long for a call back or they were answered immediately, and thanks to Ms Brode for her effort in rebooking my missed flight to the next day.

Many thanks! Keep it up.

Best wishes!

Our two-week round trip was brilliantly organised by Verena Brode. Thank you for that!

With four family members we went from Windhoek to Okonjima Nature Reserve, where we were able to watch leopards for the first time. Our journey continued via Grootfontein, the Divundu region, the Okavango River and Kwando River to Kasane. We entered Zimbabwe and visited Victoria Falls. We also enjoyed a helicopter flight there. After this highlight we continued to Gweta and early in the morning to a meerkat colony. From there, via Maun, we relaxed for the last three nights in the Khwai Community Area.

We were guided by "Esmes", who speaks good German. He is professional and gave us a lot of information about the wildlife and landscapes. And he is a superb driver.

About our camps and lodges the following can be said: the better and more expensive ones were simply lovely and we felt very comfortable there. But the rustic ones too can be described as good; only the accommodation at Planet Baobab Lodge is very much in need of renovation.

Our trip was brilliantly organised and the execution, thanks to Esmes, who was always in contact with Namibia Experience, was very good without any problems or difficulties.

A note for older travellers (over 60, 70 or even over 80): a guided tour with fixed accommodation and good sanitary facilities is a great option, especially for older people who also don't speak the language so well, for such a magnificent round trip, which was worked out according to our wishes. Everything was organised for us, including the border crossings into Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls and the various means of transport. We could concentrate on the most beautiful landscapes and wildlife viewing.

Dear Ms Walter,

a wonderful trip is drawing to a close and we are heading back with many lovely memories and experiences.

Our guide Jonge/Jürgen and our fellow travellers were great.

Everything worked excellently and went smoothly, thanks to your preparation!

It will certainly not be the last trip to this region 😉

Warmest regards

Nicole and Marc

Private safari Botswana/Victoria Falls, 18.5.2023 – 1.6.2023, a
"once in a lifetime experience" put together and perfectly organised by Ms Franke.

We got to know 3 different camps: at first we were in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and then in 2 camps in the Okavango Delta; between camps we travelled in small aircraft and so could get to the next destination comfortably and quickly.

The guides and trackers were without exception very experienced and you could feel the joy with which they did their job; the mood during the game drives was always relaxed and we had a lot of fun together.

We accompanied cheetahs on the hunt, watched a male lion crossing a river, saw 2 leopards that had to haul their prey up a tree trunk and defend it against hyenas… and on and on… priceless moments!!! To finish we also visited the imposing Victoria Falls, a worthy end to an indescribably beautiful trip!

From Johannesburg to Victoria Falls
We had an excellent 14 days, mostly in Botswana. Thanks to the Khama Rhino Sanctuary, the Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve, the Makgadikgadi Pans and Chobe National Park, seeing the Big Five was no problem at all. It was beautiful. We highly recommend this trip. Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, as the icing on the cake of the trip, make this holiday completely unforgettable.

Thank you to Elefant-Tours for the organisation, to Sunway Safaris for running the tour, and to Patrick, our guide!!!

In November 2022 I did an overland tour from Victoria Falls via Swakopmund to Windhoek. I can warmly recommend it to anyone who can do without a little comfort.

I was warmly welcomed right at the airport in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Our guide Chris and the interpreter Evans, who joined us in Zambia, made the tour an unforgettable experience. The two of them always had everything organised under control, were always good for a pleasant surprise, such as strawberries in the Namib Desert, and had infected the travel group with their “Hakuna matata” by the second day. Beyond that, alongside the scenic beauty of Namibia, they shared a lot of interesting knowledge about its human and animal inhabitants. If you keep your eyes and ears open, you can experience new wonders here every day: herds of elephants at the waterholes of the Etosha Pan, ancient rock engravings in the Tsisab Gorge, enchanting and colourful sunrises at Spitzkoppe, seal colonies at Cape Cross, Black Forest gateau at Café Anton in Swakopmund, breathtaking views from the highest sand dunes in the world and much more.

A trip to the former German South West Africa, one of the most varied and contrast-rich countries in Africa, is definitely worthwhile and will be remembered forever.

I would like to thank the entire Elefant-Tours team most sincerely for the success of the trip. Thanks to the good care, planning and organisation ahead of my trip, it went exactly as I had expected.

I can recommend Elefant-Tours as a competent partner to anyone who wants to travel southern and eastern Africa for the first time or again.

Best wishes from Saarland

Markus Leser

After postponing our Africa trip twice because of Covid, it worked out this year: 16 days in Namibia from Windhoek to Victoria Falls (27 August – 12 September 2022) as a mini-group tour, and it was worth it. The trip was wonderful.

Our guide Moppi Tietz from Namibia-Experience looked after us superbly and through him we learned a great deal about the uniquely beautiful country of Namibia. The accommodation was very well chosen, with good food, and at one place that only offered breakfast, our guide prepared an excellent dinner on the grill for us.

Many thanks to the team at Elefant-Tours and Namibia-Experience.

Christine and Michael Gaus

From 24 September to 18 October 2022 we travelled through Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe as self-drivers. We remember the trip very fondly, as everything went perfectly.

Car rental, directions, lodges, camps and transfers were all excellent.

The route suited us well. On the safaris we always had very friendly and helpful companions.

Thank you for the great organisation

Dear Elefant-Tours team,
thank you very much for your support in planning our self-drive tour.

Our time in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe was simply dreamlike. The wildlife sightings, the friendly people, the nature and the sunsets. We were also very impressed by the food.

Every one of the accommodations was a highlight in itself. The briefing from Sven in Windhoek was also worth its weight in gold.

See you again soon!

After taking a most impressive self-drive tour through southern Namibia in 2018 (thanks to Ms Borchardt), we also wanted to get to know northern Namibia. We gave Ms Wehrle a few wishes and ideas. With her excellent knowledge of the country and her quick answers to our many questions, we were able to find the optimal itinerary quickly. It included 3,000 km of driving in the rental car, nights in 13 places to stay and a return flight from Victoria Falls to Windhoek.

The tour proved to be very well planned and varied. In the first part, from Windhoek to Grootberg, the impressive landscape and the very interesting geology predominated. We were able to get to know the surroundings of the various lodges on our own hikes and on game drives.

In the second part of the tour – from Hobatere to Mushara – the variety and number of wildlife sightings increased from day to day. Because of the drought that has already lasted for years in this part of Namibia, all the animals depended on the established waterholes, and with a little patience you could watch all the animals that occur (fairly commonly) in Etosha National Park. Only there did we meet other vehicles; on the routes to the next lodge there was very little traffic. We stayed outside the national park for two days each in outstanding places (Etosha Safari Lodge and Mushara Bush Camp) whose characters complemented each other ideally.

The third part of our tour – from River Dance to Batonka – took us to the great rivers in the Caprivi Strip and as far as Victoria Falls. Because of the incomparable wildlife (Figs. 2 and 3), here too we stayed two days each at the various lodges. In retrospect, in some places, such as River Dance, it could have been more than two days, so as to process the many unique impressions and the extensive photo material more thoroughly. Because of the time of year (September) and the drought in Angola as well, Victoria Falls were half dried up. But the rest was still more than worth the trip.

The fourth part of the trip consisted only of the return flight to Windhoek and one night near the airport. This had become necessary because Air Namibia changed the flight times after our booking and the direct connecting flight to Frankfurt was no longer possible.

We would like to thank Ms Wehrle once again most warmly for the very good organisation of this round trip. All the accommodation was outstanding, the people there extremely friendly, the daily stages were not too long and the double nights gave enough time for the sights on the spot (game drives). The rental car crossing into Botswana and all the transfers by Elefant-Tours’ partners worked impeccably. This was probably not our last trip with Elefant-Tours.

From 30.12.19 to 18.1.20 I was on the overland tour from Victoria Falls to Cape Town. Afterwards I spent 3 days in Cape Town and then another week on Zanzibar.

Overall I can say that this tour impressed me incredibly and I will draw on the experiences for a long time. It was already my second overland tour and I had been looking forward to this tour through the south-western part of Africa for a long time.

With 14 other participants and 2 tour guides we set off on 31.12.19. After a few days of getting to know each other we got on very well as a group and had an incredible amount of fun together. Our tour guides Alington and Laurine were very friendly and dedicated, and after a short time we already felt as if we had known each other forever.

Eating the meals prepared by Laurine together, then sitting together over a cold drink and chatting, laughing and marvelling together, feeling safe and secure at all times – all of that and much more made up this tour.

It led us from Victoria Falls to Chobe National Park, then to the Okavango Delta, from there to Namibia (Etosha National Park, Swakopmund, south to the big dunes and Fish River Canyon, Orange River) and then via the Cederberg to Cape Town.
What we were able to see and experience was simply magnificent.

The stay in Cape Town afterwards was lovely, but the week of relaxing on Zanzibar was dreamy. All in all a holiday I will never forget and that makes me want more of Africa!

In November 2019 we experienced the 11-day “Fish Eagle” camping safari in Botswana!

..and we are absolutely thrilled! Our expectations were exceeded by far. We were truly “in the middle of it and right up close”, with wonderful campsites where we were able to experience ourselves as guests of the wilderness. Countless goosebump moments, at night when lions roared in the immediate vicinity of the tent or by day when elephants approached the bush toilet out of curiosity; and countless other breathtaking and touching encounters…

We were very lucky to be accompanied through this time by two very special people: our guide Eddie, full of love for his country and the animals, clever and humorous, with whom we felt absolutely safe, and our cook and camp assistant OT, who managed to amaze us every day with his varied, excellent and healthy meals. The meat dishes were fantastic, and it was especially lovely that there was also a lovingly prepared vegetarian alternative (for Petra)… and great desserts! And all of it prepared over the campfire!

The highlight at the end was Victoria Falls and the great lodge there; the two of us tacked on one more day and did white-water rafting on the Zambezi! Wow! Pure adrenaline!

Here too: a great team, with a lot of emphasis on safety, which was also necessary 🙂 now and then someone does go overboard..

Many thanks to Elephant Tours, especially to Ms Berger for the competent advice, the very professional and personal service overall, and the quick support when there were problems with the return flight because of a strike at SAA!

This was the second trip we have booked with Elefant-Tours. Once again we had our trip put together individually, defining the destinations and wishes ourselves, and Elefant-Tours created a great package from that. We left Elefant-Tours a free hand with both the stages and the choice of lodges and campsites. It paid off, because all the accommodation was absolutely brilliant. All we had to do was drive ourselves, the rest was superbly organised, and so we experienced a dreamlike trip through Botswana and Namibia.

• In the Okavango Delta, the Big Five within 2 days,
• in Deception Valley, fighting giraffes and Kalahari lions,
• at Nata, hundreds of thousands of flamingos on the Makgadikgadi salt pans,
• in Chobe there was wildlife overload,
• at Vic Falls we almost walked in the footsteps of Dr Livingstone,
• in the Caprivi Strip birds, hippos and crocodiles
• and at the Waterberg scenery and rhinos

In September/October 2018 we did a self-drive tour through Namibia and Botswana to Victoria Falls. It was our second trip organised by Elefant Tours (the first went to South Africa in 2017). And once again the organisation and booking were perfect. All our wishes were taken into account when booking. We were rightly advised against the half-hour helicopter flight over Victoria Falls – the quarter-hour one is quite enough.
The tour itself was overwhelming. We thought long and hard about whether we could say where it was truly most beautiful – it is simply not possible. The wonderful Sossusvlei dunes (with a night in the dreamy Le Mirage Lodge), the Vreugde Farm at Etosha, the MBola Lodge in the beautiful Caprivi. The Chobe Bakwena Lodge is unbeatable, and the Okavango Delta is a place you simply have to have been.
We will definitely not be travelling with Elefant Tours for the last time. The same goes for friends of ours, who have already completed their first tour!