Stories

—What other travellers say

STORIES

Some participants of our Air Safaris self-fly or group tours in Southern Africa have been willing to share their experience with you on camera at the end of their trip and we started to collect them just recently in the fall of 2019. We hope that these stories will inspire you to come to Africa.

African Stories – Loes en Matthijs

Loes en Matthijs

Loes: To me landing in the middle of Tanda Tula airstrip in the middle of the wild was like WOW, this is incredible. You can’t experience this anywhere in Europe!

Climbing Big Daddy Dune

Climbing Big Daddy (Sossusvlei, Namibia) was one of the highlights for me on our trip with my wife, son and friends in a Cessna 206. At 325 meters, Big Daddy is the highest dune in the Sossusvlei area.

African Stories – Michael and Susan

Leopards and Wild Dogs

Michael and Suzanne were only with us for a bit more than a week in Africa before they had to return home to Canada. Let’s hope they get the opportunity to come back again to complete the tour they had started.

Yuri from The Netherlands

Once in a Lifetime Experience

Yuri came to Africa and was initially not sure what to expect. He joined our 1-week 4x4Drive Adventure into Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana which included flights to Botswana from Johannesburg and back, a 4x4Drive Adventure in the Okavango Delta / Moremi Game Reserve and a classic safari at Limpopo-Lipadi Private Game Reserve, Botswana. Yuri was just one week in Africa but enjoyed every minute of it. Hear his story.

African Stories - Nadia

We explored every corner of Namibia

Nadia came to Namibia with her family from Spain. She explored every little corner of Namibia and loved it all. She felt very welcomed and encouraged to take the adventure.

African Stories – Jim

Each day was Better than the Day before

Jim has been flying for over 40 years back home in Canada. Flying in Africa was a new adventure for him. The radio work was different and the airfields were sometimes challenging. Each day was better than the day before.

African Stories – Kathy

I don’t really want to go Home

Kathy came along with her husband Jim from Northern Ontario in Canada. She enjoyed the wildlife and felt at ease in Africa and did not want to go home at the end. The Coronavirus travel restrictions had started to kick in when their trip was about over and they were able to get back home safely via London back to Canada.

African Stories – Hans

Africa was Totally Different to me from what I had Imagined before

Hans visited us twice in Africa prior to joining our Air Safari Tour and had his pilot license validation already arranged during a previous visit with us. To him, Africa came as a pleasant surprise meeting up with friendly people, enjoying good food and feeling safe all over while flying around in Southern Africa.

Kim + Welmien from South Africa

Two Leopards in One Tree

Kim and Welmien are both from South Africa and joined us in October 2019 as staff on one of our tours. In this first story, they share their enthusiasm for the African bush with you. Both Kim and Welmien are involved with African Flying Adventures as Kim is married to Johan, who together with Sjoerd runs African Flying Adventures, and Welmien is in charge of our reservations desk.

African Stories – Armin

An Experience I will probably Never forget in my Life

I had been dreaming about coming to Africa for a long time and this was just a dream come true. Every day was a new adventure. Flying to Swaziland and landing on a short bush airstrip was one of the highlights to me. We were welcomed there by locals dancing around our aircraft.

African Stories – Azra

Rafting on the Zambezi River was one of my highlights

Azra came along with Armin from Bosnia and Herzegovina and could only join our Air Safari tour a bit later. She flew commercially to Victoria Falls and joined us for the last week and visited Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, the Okavango Delta and Moremi Game Reserve near Maun in Botswana.

African Stories - Henk

Overwhelming Experience

Henk signed up last minute. His normal glasses broke while he was on safari, so he was wearing his sunglasses instead. Henk had never been in Africa and recommends everyone to come and experience Africa.

Gregory from Switzerland

Father and Son flying Together through Africa

Gregory came to Africa with his father and flew around through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia. We had the privilege to support them all along.

African Stories - Carlos and Rosa

Air Safari Namibia

African Stories - Charlie

Took about 5000 photos!

Charlie came along with his parents for a first time to Namibia and really wants to come back. He enjoyed traveling with a plane through Namibia which made the trip so much easier and enjoyed taking a lot of pictures.

African Stories - Sarah

Flying in Small Planes

Sarah from Florida recommends coming to Africa with African Flying Adventures because you get to a lot of places in a relatively short time where you would otherwise not have the opportunity to visit them in one trip. She felt in love with Namibia.

African Stories – Melanie

Flying in Africa Makes you a better Pilot

Melanie joins us regularly as volunteer and support (pilot) team member. She is a joy to be around and she loves talking about aircraft and technology.

African Stories - Allen (part 1)

The waiting was worth it

Allen contacted us in 2019 with the desire to come to Africa to fly an aircraft on a safari tour through Namibia with his wife and some friend. However, first a knee injury (he could not fly the aircraft anymore) and after that the corona pandemic resulted in quite a delay before he could finally come over to do his trip. We kept on supporting Allen and rescheduling the lodges. He finally had his wish come true in October 2022.

African Stories - Allen (part 2)

Flight following done right

African Flying Adventures supported our flying trip and followed us all along on our Garmin Inreach satellite track. We were able to send them messages while in flight where they would accommodate our arrival at the next bush airstrip.