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Hi ElleK89

I booked a trip with Overlanding Africa.com and they were awesome. I did a portion of the trip you're looking to do. As far as I know, the crew who were on the overland trip with me are still working the same route, so you can expect to meet Li - your awesome tour leader who helped us track and spot leopard! Then your truck driver is Wes - he's a total sweet pea. He travels with his guitar and strums awesome classics around the campfire while everyone chats, eats and chills. Then there is the cook - Suzanne. She is an absolute God send I tell you. Her cooking is from heaven. Hawaiian burgers, shepards pie and the most yummy french toast I've ever tasted! We never ate the same meal on our two week trip from Swakopmund to Victoria Falls (a leg of your overall Cape to Nairobi excursion).

I did the elephant ride you are keen to do - wow it was absolutely beautiful. Definitely something that was on my bucket list that I fulfilled.

I see that in your trip the Chobe National Park sleepout is included as well as the Chobe National Park boat cruise. Those were both SUCH highlights on my trip. In the two weeks my boyfriend and I were on safari we saw soooo many animals in Chobe - you'll see that in my photos!

I must recommend the excursion into the Okavango Delta - wow - wow - wow. You'll miss out if you don't get to experience riding through the lush waterways of the Okavango Delta. At night we even heard lions roaring on the island opposite us. It was stunning.

Definite thumbs up for Overlanding Africa.com

Good luck and enjoy your trip!

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Overlanding Africa seems to be just an agency that books overland trips run by different companies.

I'd recommend you find out which company runs the particular trip you're interested in and look for reviews of them. All the agency does is sell you the trip.

Edited by: stokeygirl

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Dinxster, I always get very suspicious when I see a first-time poster giving such a glowing report of a company. You have joined ThornTree to-day apparently specifically to promote Overlanding Africa, What connection do you have with them?

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Yeah, it seems somewhat suspicious to me too, especially given that Dinxster makes no mention of which company actually ran the tour and speaks like the tour was actually operated by OA.

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Thanks everyone the original travel co seems to be the African travel co. I will look for reviews for that company in the meantime does anyone recommend a different company?

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I have actually travelled with them and thought they were very good, but that was in 2000 and 2001 so you might want to look for someone with more up to date experience. Still, at least it shows they've been in the business a long time!

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Hi guys

I just created my profile today and updated all my details for everyone to see if you haven't seen them already.

Yes, Overlanding Africa is a booking agent - the website is very open about that. I did say that I booked the trip with Overlanding Africa - I didn't mean to make it sound like I travelled on an 'Overlanding Africa truck'.

I honestly went on the Swakopmund to Victoria Falls leg in June. Here is the link to my trip photos I posted in my personal account on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/9nhkqrf

All I wanted to give was an honest review traveller to traveller.

I'm really sorry if it didn't come across as sincere.

Whoever you choose to travel with - no doubt you'll have a blast.

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Thank you again! I really do like this trip and would like to go on it but I don't want to end up on a trip that does not provide the support I need as a first time individual traveler.

I am looking into acacia are there any tour groups that anyone has recently went with that they recommend.

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I traveled with Acacia Africa last year on their Nairobi to Cape Town trip and found them to be fantastic - would definitely recommend to others.

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I travelled with Africa Travel Co for my second solo visit to Africa in 2004 and had a great time. I'm still in contact with the cook, driver and a lot of the other passengers. I did two subsequent trips with them also, the most recent being in 2008. From my experience I would recommend them though, of course, my trips weren't particularly recent. Good luck!

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Thanks everyone for the advice greatly appreciated