Chris_ExpertAfrica

Well done @BNADave!

Thanks for your update. Great to hear that you have found someone you’re happy to work with and got a trip in the diary that you’re really pleased with.

I’m sure you’ll have a fantastic time!

Chris_ExpertAfrica

Meanwhile, @LAX_esq – you made a damaging allegation with no evidence.

I’ve messaging you several times, here and privately, trying to understand – but got no response. We’ve no record of such a quote: it seems like you don’t have either.

At best you have mixed up your tour operators’ names; at worst you are deliberately misleading – maligning Expert’s our name when forced by Safari_Craig’s insistence. Either way, it’s a shabby way to pretend to “help” people readers who deserve better.

There may be ‘western operators’ who charge double the going rate, but Expert isn't one.

Truth is that both ‘western’ and ‘local’ tour operators exhibit a massive range of quality and value – I’ve come across them all in 35 years of writing guidebooks to Africa. Generalising that one whole group is uniformly good, bad, costly … or uniformly anything is ignorant.

This forum is about helping travellers make good choices. Fake assertions with no truth behind them contribute nothing to the debate – they just illustrate the writer’s prejudices.

PhotoSafariCompany

I would recommend you look more into how the safaris are operated. Many of the safaris, if not most, in Kenya are very over crowded in terms of safari vehicles and tourists. This means you do not get ample time to observe the animals before getting rushed off to the next sighting. The vast majority of the operators are connected via VHF radio and this means that once there is a sighting of a certain animal such a lions, all the vehicles rush to the location to get prime viewing position.

I would certainly recommend you look at some of the Southern African countries for you safari. These include Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe definitely has the Big 5 and is such a beautiful country, which also has Victoria Falls if that is of interest.