African Safari Review: Luxury Custom African Safari (South Africa, Botswana, Zambia)

This African safari tour operator does not offer cookie-cutter tours. It created a personalized, customized itinerary just for us. We were not assigned to some assistant; we worked directly with the president of the company (a native South African who now lives in my home city), exchanging close to 50 e-mails as we perfected the ideal itinerary for our interests. She steered us to places and sites we almost certainly would not have discovered on our own, including not one but two amazing safari camps -- each with unique characteristics and phenomenal opportunities to view the animals in their natural habitats. They book lodging in boutique hotels with a five-star service ethic. Their restaurant recommendations were superb, booking us into places we would not have found in any published travel guide -- places the locals go for a really, really good meal.