An African Adventure with Kris Tripp Preferred Travel of Naples

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Hi, I’m Kris Tripp. I’m a travel consultant with Preferred Travel of Naples. I’m talking about Africa, South Africa, Cape Town and Botswana today. I have wanted to go to Africa my entire life after seeing movies such as Born Free and Out of Africa. I was so enamored with the amount of wildlife, the beauty that I have wanted to go since I was a child.
As a life-long dream traveling to Africa, I was given the opportunity to go with Alexander & Roberts. They’re a small group tour operator that serves many destinations.
Our trip begins in Capetown, South Africa where I flew in and spent two to three nights. We toured the Cape of Good Hope and Boulders beach where there are penguin colonies and around the city of Capetown.
We were given the opportunity to go out to the Winelands, so we went to some of the wineland territories and it was beautiful. Stunning.
With the flights, the commercial services run from Johannesburg to Mahn and from there we were met by our private concession plane, which flew us from Mahn airport to the bordering of Jao concession, which is a private concession bordering the Chobe National Park along the Okavango Delta.
Kwetsani camp along the delta is described as tree house style accommodations. So, they’re set up over the flood plains because at certain times of the year in the winter as April is Fall, the water rise over the flood plains as it rushes south from Angola. We arrived late to Kwetsani in the afternoon and the couple that runs the reserve met us. They have been there for over 16 years and we had dinner. Then the following morning we took a six-passenger jeep through the flood plains looking at the different hooved animals, birds and wildlife.
In Kwetsani along the Okavango Delta, you can experience Impala, Red Lechwe, Coodos, all of your hooved animals, as well as many water birds, wattled crane and rusted rollers.
From Kwetsani camp, which is along the Okavango Delta, we moved over to Duma Tao. Duma Tao is part of the Chobe National Park. It’s a private concession bordering that. It is more bushland, so dryer at the source. We were able to see elephant, giraffe, warthog, wildebeest, water buffalo and cats sometimes. While we were staying at Duma Tao, we had an event that they usually put on once a week but they put on special for us while we were visiting. Essentially what happens is the entire camp prepares the food outside and you are under the stars, around the campfire while they put on their traditional dance and song of the region. It’s a buffet style dinner that’s put on for you.
So, once we left Chobe National Park, Duma Tao we went to the Livingstone National Park, which is in Zambia. That’s bordering Victoria Falls and stayed at Tuka Leya for two nights overlooking the mighty Zambezi River. Victoria falls was on our visit, it was on our list. It was pretty spectacular. The waters were rushing at that time. There were hippos and elephants swimming across the river.
Game drives were not only by little boats but were along the Zambezi River and by jeep. During a walking tour in the Livingstone National Park we were able to see the endangered White Rhino.
I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to see the beauty and the vast freedom and wildlife in Africa. I am an adventure traveler. I love wildlife, whether it be parks, animals, nature, stars and I think this is the best thing in life.
I can be reached at 239.261.1177 Preferred Travel’s office to arrange your adventure travel to Africa and many other destinations or you could also find information about us on our website, which is http://www.preferrednaples.com

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