Oct 29, 2024
Great tour......Do it!! - We had a great tour led by the friendly, very knowledgeable ranger, Sinkhale. There were only two of us so essentially a private tour! Immediately after entering the park we spotted a Hyena and later bush babies, iguanas, hippos, zebras and as icing on the cake a beautiful leopard. Sinkhale managed to get these with sounds up to about 10 meters from our car which resulted in great photos / videos. After returning to the lodge, Sinkhale also demonstrated what his native language sounds like (part of the Zulu language). All in all enjoyed it very much and we can recommend this beautiful tour to everyone!
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Oct 18, 2024
What an amazing experience. - What a fantastic night drive.
3 hours of pure bliss under the African night sky. Elephants, hippos, jackals, genets, bush babies, chameleons, Buffalo, zebra, Reed buck, duikers, Waterbuck and my favorite.... hyenas. A "laugh": 3 hyena seen in the distant, feeding on a very smelly kill, and my highlight: a "cackle" of 8 who came right up to the game viewing vehicle. Sakhile was an outstanding guide and even through in a quick Zulu lesson. What a brilliant outing.#hyenas
Highly recommend
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Sep 3, 2024
Thank you Heritage Tours & Safaris. - Our night drive safari in iSimangaliso Wetland Park was outstanding and well worth it. We were collected promptly at 7pm from our accommodation in St Lucia. Sakhile, our guide, was first-rate - he covered local culture, biodiversity, even astronomy during the coffee/tea/rusk/muffin break, all with a sprinkle of humour. Sakhile was very knowledgeable and went out of his way to find wildlife for us, from chameleons to spotted hyena (buffalo, hippo, zebra and more). The night drive exceeded our expectations, great experience! We enjoyed it so much we didn't even mind not seeing a leopard (although we did try). Thank you Heritage Tours & Safaris.
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Aug 18, 2024
Super night safari - We had the best experience, the guide who was quite new at Heritage did an amazing job. We saw a lot of animals with as absulute highlight a leopard sighting, this leopard liked to be in the spotlight. Would do it again when we are in Santa Lucia. Highly recommend.
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Aug 15, 2024
Shakule is the Best Guide - SPECTACULAR. Shakule Dube is the Best Guide You Can Have. After picking us up he offered us a small talk about the Zulu culture and the different clicks that have incorporated into the language tribes like the Xhosa, so the beginning is very interesting on an anthropological level, remarking that this time is not subtracted from the safari itself, since once you enter the national park Shakule dedicated to delight us discovering all kinds of animals, we saw even potamoquero and several chameleons that (WE DO NOT KNOW HOW) could see several dozens of meters. A beastly experience that culminated with sightings of leopards and hippo already in the same city of St Lucia.
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Aug 6, 2024
Amazing adventure! - We had more or less one goal: spotting the elusive leopard. We had gone through several national parks and had managed to spot every animal in the big five other than the leopard, and certainly not for a lack of trying. Once we stepped into the vehicle, it soon became clear to us everyone else was also very enthusiastically hoping for a leopard.
It was a very eventful ride that ended up being quite the adventure. And at the end of that adventure, we saw something lying beside the road. It was a leopard and as we approached it, it got up and walked besides our vehicle for eight solid minutes.
The vehicle was filled with kind and enthoustic people, including our terrific guide Siyabonga, who was very kind, helpful and informative.
We would definitely recommend Heritage’s Night Drive to anyone interested. We certainly got an amazing adventure to talk about back home.
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Jul 20, 2024
Siyabonga, Siya! Leopard king! - We were very blessed with our experience. Heritage tours was so kind to move our drive to Saturday night drom Friday night as we had some delayed travel time and did not make it in time for our night drive.
We finally did it and went on our night drive with SIYABONGA Gumede! What a lovely guide! All the requests on the vehicle was for a LEOPARD and Siya did not disappoint .
We are 100% coming back for a night drive safari!!!
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Jul 18, 2024
The best so far - The best tour organizers , I have ever come across so far
Absolute professional and above and all i had my tour delayed for an hour for some reason and they went all the way ahead and refunded the entire amount and arranged a different vehicle and a guide.
Thats highly impressive.
Coming to their guide we had guide named Shakile Dube and that man is just Amazing the voice, the knowledge and the wisdom he carries and shares with the tourists is absolutely commandable and he should be a ambassador for all the guides around the world going above and beyond in sharing knowledge about cukture, language, wildlife and anaimal behavior.
Just ask anyone in Ismangaliso for him and they have something to say about him.
And absolute delightful Experience with Heritage tours and safari.
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Sep 21, 2024
Dedicated tour with vermouth drops - The guide was very dedicated and drove with us even longer than originally planned because he wanted to show us many animals.
However, we didn’t like one point, which was that the elephant family was so disturbed by the suddenly approaching car with bright light that they anxiously fled into the bushes to the right and left of the path in an attempt to protect their babies.
That disturbed us a bit - we had booked the nightdrive mainly to see animals that are only on the road at night... However, this should be done more carefully and with more consideration for the animals.
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Jul 18, 2024
The chance of experiencing the bush, the lake and the bush within the same package was marvelous.. - We had an amazing experience, the accommodation was good, the breakfast excellent. The safari tours were well planned, and we saw a pack of wild dogs and lions in one day, that was above my expectations. Nele Jiyane was very helpful during the bookings, and she shared all the requirement information, and she made our stay as easy as possible.
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