Neil always gives you his personal attention in planning your unforgettable tailor-made eco-safari

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Berdene is the financial and brand manager for SafariWise. She ensures that all operations and affairs run smoothly when Neil is not in the office. Berdene often joins the camping tours with Neil, and together they ensure that the guests are well looked after. She is also involved with the SafariWise Charity and Environmental friendly projects. SafariWise, in conjunction with the Hellenic Society in Greece are working on numerous projects in Namibia. This is a big commitment, but worth it when you see the impact it has on the children that benefit from the time and effort.

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Liezel who is no longer a new comer to Namibia heralding from South Africa, joined the SafariWise family in January 2010. You can find her at the SafariWise office each morning, doing bookings, correspondence and the stunning itineraries that are included in enquiries.

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Sabina is new to the team, having joined us in July 2011. She has been working in tourism in Windhoek (Namibia’s capital city) since 2000, and has recently moved to Swakopmund. Sabina will assist with quotations, reservations and marketing..

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Daniel, simply known as Robbie, joined our SafariWise team in the beginning of 2010.  He is fully bilingual (English and Afrikaans).  He started in the tourism industry working casually at Dare Devil Adventures during his vacation time. Then in December 2008, he joined Dare Devil Adventures permanently where he was appointed as manager and also still lead tours. He has completed his ornithology, fauna and geology course with outstanding results at the Namibian Academy for Tourism & Hospitality.  Robbie has become very popular with all the “regular” SafariWise customers and has led several tours on his own during 2010.  He is fast becoming an exceptional leader, naturalist, birder and all round good guy!  All our customers can’t speak highly enough of him!

Mark Hays first started in the tourism industry as a city tour guide in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa in 1990, expanding his tours to the Cape Peninsula, West coast shores and the wine-land region of the Cape. In 1992 he started guiding in Namibia. He specialised in camping and lodge tours exploring the central, southern and northern parts of Namibia, as well as Botswana and Zimbabwe. A proud Namibian with a love for nature and marine life, Mark strives to provide  professional service to visitors.  He has been freelance guiding since the early 90`s and speaks, reads and writes Afrikaans, English and German fluently. Mark has committed his excellent guiding services to SafariWise since August 2011. Mark is in the process of completing his Level 3 Guiding Certificate with NATH (Namibian Academy of  Tourism and Hospitality) which include subjects Fauna & Flora, Ecology & Ecotourism to name a few. In his “Desert Guiding Course“ in 2011, he finished Top of the class and achieved a distinction mark.

Malakia is our indispensable and industrious camp assistant in Namibia. He and his back up team go in front of the safari and sets up camp in the most beautiful and remote places. His traditional cooking, easy smile and helpful nature have earned him much respect and admiration.

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Samuel reigns from Northern Namibia where he trained as a chef. He is now our own BUSH CHEF! He shares his family recipies with all and is a camp favourite around the fire.

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Simson is our driver and back-up guy. He grew up and was educated in central Namibia. Simson has been involved in tourism for over ten years. He is well-known throughout the beaten tracks of  Namibia.  He often joins the back-up team to ensure that all runs smoothly.

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Paul is a freelance guide, who committed himself to SafariWise in 2010. He is fully trilingual and has been employed as a professional tour guide at Sandy Acre Safaris and then Ultimate Safaris. In that time, he has guided a series of challenging safaris with cheerfulness and enthusiasm, and has received many good reports. He has an extensive background and started guiding in 2006. He has completed a number of courses at the Namibian Academy for Tourism & Hospitality which includes First aid, Ethnology, Fauna, Ornithology and Tourism general. Paulo is a charming and articulate person who enjoys working with visitors and sharing his knowledge of the country.

Charl was born in the North of Namibia and grew up on the family farm. Growing up on the farm he had an interest in wildlife and nature from an early age. He started guiding in 1998 in the Namib Desert, but soon moved back to the North of Namibia. There he started to do safaris to the North East of Namibia and the Caprivi where most of the big game and birds are found. In 2001 he went to work on a lodge outside of Etosha, where he did game drives in to Etosha National Park. As the lodge had a reptile park he became interested in reptiles and helped in the reptile park. This inspired a great interest for reptiles. June 2002, he moved back to Swakopmund to do Safaris to the rest of Namibia. In 2006, he started to do marine tours for one of the local marine tour operator’s as well. Charl specializes in small personalized safaris and is a keen photographer.

SafariWise pilot-guide

Andrew du Preez grew up in Etosha game reserve where his father was a resident biologist. After school and university Andrew moved to the Caprivi strip where he worked as a conservation official for a short time on Namibia’s independence and branched out into setting up a small tourism venture guiding groups by canoe down the Okavango. After working with small groups as a camping guide he became interested in flying microlights and in 1996 completed a east, west circuit of Southern Africa for a year unassisted with a rudimentary microlight ,assisting in various conservation projects in Zimbabwe and Malawi utilizing the microlight. After this the bug for flying bit and he obtained his commercial pilots licence and now conducts air safaris for SafariWise all over Southern Africa.