Yes, our trip to South Africa was successful, and our stay at Lukimbi was very enjoyable. Also, the ground transportation service was excellent.
Thank you for arranging everything promptly and accurately.The game drives at Kruger were very interesting, and the animals we saw complimented our experience in Botswana of a couple of years ago. The camps in Botswana with Orient Express Safaris were a little more “up-scale” than Lukimbi in terms of service, meals, etc and there were almost no children with whom to contend. However, we were pleased with our experience at Lukimbi.

Again, thank you.

I guess the trip was balanced when I compared with Cape Town and Johanesburg . We went up table mountain and the time was that the mountain was covered with all types of clouds. But when we were up there it was all clear. The next day we went to see the seals and we saw table mountain with the clouds in mid way like a picture from a movie. The hotel in Capetown was an excellent choice . The weather was relatively kind with the rain holding off except when we were on the way to Hermanus. Some rain but it cleared. The winds stayed the next day and that chased the whales away. The hotel there was basic but sufficient. Whales was seen the day before I presume just before it rained in Hermanus . Our guide was excellent. He was practical and sharing his knowledge with us. I like some of his local knowledge information. He was very helpful minding that we had children and arranging the itinerary accordingly . In Johanesburg we saw our animals and appreciated camouflage. Giraffe which is an odd looking animal cannot be seen clearly at 300m until the “tree trunk” moves was a great experience. It is a pity we did have more time to see more of the animals but when you pack a holiday you need to live with the consequences.

Just a note to tell you that our trip was wonderful. The Cape Town Lodge was very nice and since we left so early to fly to Livingstone, sent us off with a large box breakfast. The proximity of the Zambezi Sun to Victoria Falls made the stay memorable. The walking tour of the falls and the boat tour on the river were well done. The day trip to Chobe was spectacular - the amount of game we saw in one day was a complete surprise, and crossing the border was quite an event. At the Emperor's Palace in Johannesburg, for some reason they upgraded our room to a 4 room 21/2 bath suite larger than most houses. Our accommodations in Kruger were great, and we really enjoyed both the game drives and self driving around the park - we were able to spot the Big 5 while there along with numerous other animals, birds and flora. If you have clients looking for places to stay in the other places we visited we stayed at the Blue Waters in Durban, a high rise located right on the ocean with a spectacular breakfast and good accommodations for families, the White House Guesthouse in Grahamstown - really a nice, nice place and a very energetic, pleasant hostess, Brookes Hills Suites in Port Elizabeth, which also are set up nicely for families with condo type rooms and the Coachman Guesthouse in Swellendam - a beautiful setting in an interesting, old town.
Thanks for all your help with the trip. It is something we will will always remember.

We would like to Thank Cecil, Sepi and all his team for making our trip to their amazing Country such an unforgetable experience, everything was well organized and executed.

kind regards
Michalis and Ifi

We would like to give our biggest thanks to the wonderful driver Mr Dries de Bruyn, who drove us to Cheetahs Safaris 5 th of march and back and then showed us around in JOhannesburg a whole day. He was very nice and kind and showed us the " diamonds" of Johannesburg.

We can't say enough positive things about the wonderful Beauty by Diversity tour we just completed with Climax Tourism Services. Cecil was always extremely prompt in answering all of our questions, and he had great suggestions when we asked how to fit a few changes into our itinerary. Our guide, Nico, took care of everything for us - almost to the point where we forgot how to think on our own! In addition to having enormous insight into the culture and wildlife of South Africa, he was well-organized, knew exactly where he was going, and had a great sense of humor. Everyday was filled with laughter and fun. The food and accommodations were wonderful as well. Everything was well-planned and went without a hitch, and we truly felt like we got a tremendous value for our money. South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and our diverse itinerary gave us a great taste of what it has to offer. Table Mountain, Cape Point, Pongola, the Featherbed Experience, Kruger Park, and all of South Africa's natural beauty, mix of cultures, and amazing wildlife will stay with us forever. Thanks again, Cecil and Nico! It was a trip of a lifetime, and it certainly was above and beyond what we expected

We arrived home from Syria on Sat after an amazing trip. I wanted to let you know that we were more than pleased with all the arrangements that you made for us. All of our accomodation and meals were good and some were outstanding, especially the guesthouses in Swellemdum and Outshoorn. We would like to have spent a week in each of those. South Africa is much more beautiful than I imagined and the variety of terrrain, flora, etc kept our interest throughout the tour. We enjoyed Seppie very much and he took excellent care of us, going above and beyond anything we could have expected.
We were so impressed with your country that we may someday return for a longer visit, in self catering accomodation, but that will have to wait until the bank account is replenished.
I intend to spread the word here that South Africa is a great winter holiday detination and if I get the chance I will recommend your services to anyone who wants to go .
Should you ever have a request from a customer for a reference from someone who has used your travel service, we would be happy to provide it.

Remeber us!!
How are you doing - I hope you are keeping busy (on a pink tractor if I recall some random conversations correctly!!)
I was talking about our trip with some friends at the weekend and I thought I'd look up the website. I 'm glad to see the 13 day one is still going so others get to have such a great time as we did - how I would love to do it all again sometime!
I noticed that Jennifer and I's comments are not on the guest feedback - and I thought our experience with the alcholic grandmother would be such a recommendation! I am sure we gave you a glowing reference... although I think you needed a holiday after our trip just to get over the whole experience.
Anyway Jennifer and I are meeting up in Ireland in September so I'm sure we will recount every detail of our trip - I know we had an absolutely fantastic time.
I hope you are keeping well and the tours are fully booked!

A mighty thank you for the experience your team at ClimaxTourism Services offered us, both Julia and myself had a totally wonderful timewith Andre at Pilanesberg National Park from 22nd to the 25th January this year.
We did enjoy the opportunity that you offered us to seesomething that is indeed uniquely South African and our guide Andre was fantastic to say the least. We found Andre to be exceptionally easygoing about the schedule and flexible so that we were able to squeeze about allwe could out of our 4 days on Safari.
His knowledge of the animals, their habitat and generalecosystem in and around Pilanesberg gave us an excellent opportunity to see allthat we could in the time we had, we didn't see any Buffalo, Leopard or Lion,but we did see a Cheetah and some Black Rhino which was the highlight for me.
Another point worthy of comment is Andre's obvious passionfor the birdlife, I am sure that we saw much much more than other tourists duein fact that Andre would be just as happy to stop for a Blue Waxbill as hewould for an Elephant.
Thank you for making our final activity on South Africa soilso memorable and we will certainly be in touch in the future for a return visitto go into Kruger National Park.

Apologies for the delay with feedback from the holiday. Demands of work!
We had a wonderful holiday, made all the more enjoyable because of the intelligence and vast knowledge of our amazing guide Mart. What a source of information and stories she possesses.
We had some wonderful experiences along the way, culminating with the high point of Kruger.
Definitely want to go there again one day.

Hi, Mr. Harley - I am finally sending this note which is long overdue. I went on the mini safari to Kruger Nat Park with Kathy Adams- House back in Sept & Johan Noppe was our guide.
I wanted you to know that I had such a wonderful time & the time there was magical. The arrangements & facilities were nice & little things like the basket with goodies to begin our morning was greatly appreciated.
Johan was such a wonderful guide - so nice, attentive & knowledgeable. The only possible way the trip could have been any better was for it to have been longer but not even sure that would have made a huge difference given our incredible experience for the 3 days we were there.
Thank you so much for making this experience so memorable. Hopefully, I can return some day & have told several friends about it in hopes they can visit some day.

Overall we had an excellent experience. The guide, Andre, was outstanding. The food and the vehicle were great. Our only complaint is that the lodging at Skukuza was not as nice as we had expected. It was generally clean and secure, but not luxurious by any means.
We would also, in retrospect, have preferred to receive a choice of airlines and flights to Mpumalanga, as the flights that were arranged for us turned out to be much less convenient than if we had been able to fly on SAA (since the rest of our tickets were on SAA).
I would happily recommend this tour to friends or family, particularly if Andre is available as the guide.
Thanks for helping provide this experience for us.

My wife, Nicky and I arranged much of the trip over the internet and took a 3 day safari at Madikwe.
Cecil was most helpful in advising on the 'independent' part of our holiday. We wanted a safari in a non malaria area, and Cecil suggested Madikwe, which was excellent.
The accommodation was supurb and organisation faultless, we saw lion, elephant, zebra, rhino, giraffe, hyena, sable, eland, wildebeest, buffalo and the scarce wild dogs. Tremendous viewing for us on our first safari.
From our initial contact,organising the safari (and tour of Pretoria at the end of the holiday), being collected and dropped off at the airport all was handled efficiently by friendly and knowledgable tour guides.

We are now back to work after an excellent holidays in SA.
This email is to say tank you to you for the excellent tour you to the operator who organized our group. Really everything was very well prepared and the choices were all very good. Marta was excellent and made us felling her like a friend and not a guide what was wonderful.
We hope you can return one day to SA and than we will contact you again.

My buddy and I just got back from the safari at Kruger and Moholoholo.
We expected to have a good experience of course, but we never would have imagined just how great a trip it would turn out to be. We saw all of the "Big Five" as well as countless other animals, and found the accomodations to be just what we were looking for.
I must tell you that one of the most positive and enjoyable aspects of our trip was our excellent guide, Mart Van der Felt. Her knowledge and professionalism was top notch, and her enthusiasm and joyful personality was positively contagious. This added a dimension to our trip that was far beyond what we ever would have expected. If we asked her a question about something, and she did'nt know the answer (a rare occurrence), she would show up later after researching the subject with even more information than we had asked for.
During the long drive to Kruger and back, she dazzled us with her knowledge of the geography, history, and culture of the people that inhabited the various landscapes we travelled through.
It seemed like Mart couldn't do enough for us, even bringing Charlie lunch when he wasn't feeling well one day, or offering to do our laundry (I thought this was way above and beyond so I did it myself).
In closing I would like to thank the operator and his staff for the speedy answers to all my inquiries, your service, and for making my first safari something I will remember for the rest of my life. I would gladly recommend this operator to any friend who is interested in going to Africa.
Hopefully I will get the chance to return some day.

My husband and I and our 6 year old son have just returned from our trip of a lifetime and it could not have been possible without the fantastic services of the operator.
From our very first contact, Cecil dealt with our queries with the utmost professionalism and dedication. He is a truly passionate South African with a wealth of knowledge and information about one of the worlds most beautiful countries.
After many wonderful suggestions and ideas from Cecil, we decided to spend our safari experience at the Serondella Game Lodge in the Thornybush Game Reserve.
From the moment we arrived we were treated with care and gracious hospitality. Our accommodations in a private thatched chalet was simply luxurious. Delicious meals were served on a beautiful deck overlooking the magnificent bush and waterholes, the sounds of the area were magical. Our hosts, tracker, and the entire staff were warm and welcoming - their knowledge of the bush, wildlife and surrounding areas made our visit that much more special.
The game viewing far exceeded our expectations thanks to our fabulous tracker Themba and Ranger John - we saw the Big 5 within the first 24 hours of our stay, not too mention the other countless spectacular species of mammals, birds, snakes and insects - we even had a constellation lesson of the stars on our game drive back one evening! Well done Jess and John of the Serondella Game Lodge for making it a truly magical place - we will treasure our beautiful memories for years to come, a trip we will never forget!
And a great big thank you to Cecil for guiding us through what has been a journey of a lifetime.

Our trip to Africa was wonderful....we were lucky to see a fair proportion of the country in a short time. We were particularly impresed with the service provided by the operator based in J'berg.
The courtesy, professionalism and service we received from Cecil, the proprietor, made our trip.His knowledge and service was second to none...we really felt we arrived as strangers but left as friends.
All this from a simple booking over the internet.....we will certainly recomend them to our friends and rebook ourselves in the future.

We highly recommend our recent safari trip to booked through this operator.
From start to finish everything was first class.
We met people from many different countries, thus making it interesting and good fun. We hope to be able to look forward to another safari in the future.

Just got back to Taipei after 30 hours... whew! at one point, I wasn't if we were going to make it because the flight was just so long.
I wanted to give you a big thank you for a super fantastic trip at pilansberg - the group, including myself, were very satisfied with the experience, particularly because you had the local knolwedge to show us local scenes such as markets, black homelands, point out the different types of wild animals and answering our gazillion, incessant questions.. perhaps the most tiring of it all =) We were also very thankful for your professionalism and care, such as customizing the trip to our needs (sun sity, lion farm), acting with a sense of urgency when Gillian dislocated her jaw, etc.
I am personally looking forward to visit SA again.. and perhaps other parts of the African continent next time around. If you ever find yourself in my neck of the woods, don't hesitate to give me a shout!
Take care,

Thank you for a lovely time. With Dhruv, we could not have enjoyed it in a large group.... we felt save throughout our tour and had a relaxing time...the memories will stay with us! We will definately recommend you to our friends....

Where do we begin?
Travelling with you these past five days have been some of the most memorable times in our lives.
Janine and I were so excited about this journey to South Africa… but experiencing it with your deep love for culture, wildlife and conservation deepened our respect and understanding for this unique country in Africa.
Every morning felt completely different than the one before. We could never have imagined such thrilling sights, sounds, tastes, touches and fragrances as we have enjoyed throughout this trip.
Thanks so much for sharing your country’s riches with us.
You & Cecil represent the very best ambassadors for South Africa’s diverse wildlife and wonderful people.
I hope some day you, Adele, Lydia, Leo & Lulu can visit the US. You are most welcome to call us if you need help or would like to spend time in Colorado.
Stay healthy. Best of luck in all of your endeavours. Always take good care of this gorgeous country of yours.

...our trip was really great. We truly appreciate all you help in organizing our lodging before and after our safari trip.... this was the most amazing trip I have taken. I learned so much about the general history of South Africa... I absolutely loved staying on the river at Lower Sabie... the variety of animals and birds was fantastic...even when the elephant pushed us back on the road... Thank you for your patience and answering all our questions with expertise.

I wanted to thank you again for the day trip to Pilanesberg. I had a incredible time and will definitely have many memories for a lifetime. I told Johanna you would be in touch with her for future business opportunities.
Thanks Again and Best of Luck

I just want to let you know, that we had a wonderful day last Friday! I placed a note on KLM's information site as I promised you. Hope to join you again soon for a tour.
Best regards,

...nog bedankt voor die mooie, onvergetelijke reis, jullie hebben dat fantastisch gedaan , tot weer ziens