David Timmins, Belgium  (May 2011)

Hi,

Sorry for the late response.
But you wanted some feedback on my time at the project.

First off all I had a great time and saw and done things i thought i never would be able to do.

It met and exceeded my expectations. Its a great locations and you are able to see the in and outs of how a nature reserve works.
Its an very nice and unique alternative way of spending time in the bush.
Paradise camp is great and the team was good.

Once more i had a great time partly because there where always unexpected things that where happening and you where living in the bush, witch is what i wanted. However live at the project is basic, something plans change very quickly, etc. So i can understand that some people will be a bit shocked when they arrive at the project, specially people with limited travel experience, etc. So I think you might need to inform people a bit more about that.

I really had a great time and hope I will be able to visit the project again

With kind regards

David

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Sharee for Erin Bezuidenhout, South Africa (Feb / March 2011)

Dear Craig,
Trust you are well. Just a quick note to say how great it was to meet the guys of Paradise Camp and to thank you so much for taking care of Erin and for all you did to make her stay a memorable one.
She cleaned up pretty well once she’d had a couple “soaking” baths and looks like her old self again.
She learned so much from you during her time at the camp and did her fair share of educating me about “grass, plants and animals” during our few days in the Kruger. She honestly had the most amazing time and is extremely happy to have had the opportunity.
Thanks again and all the best for your continued hard work at Paradise Camp and I trust the project will be very successful.
Kind regards,
Sharee Bezuidenhout
 

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Frédérique, France (March 2011)

Hello Craig,
Good morning to you from France!
I am back in my country and MY BUSH EXPERIENCE keep running in my mind, my heart my soul...
Without further delay I wanted to thanks you Craig, for giving such a great experience in sharing and doing the opportunity, for a while the bush's life with you and your team...
You are a "bushman's wizard" a true witness of wild life, big five and all about ecology system...The wittily way you offer your knowledge gave to the volunteer I was, the feeling to form a part of Paradise Camp and to be connected with bush spirit…
The only loath to do is about the difficulty I had to said with English words all the happiness I felt with all of you…
Your team with all its disparity participated to make a full experiment … like in a concert… each instrument agree with its own harmony to the others… and coming to an understanding company…
Thanks to you Craig and also Tim, François, Stephan, Irin, and of course Goosie… without forgot the ravaging noisy honey badger…
I will never forget the lions around the water point with the white Rhino and the teenager trying to take place…
Your talk with the young trumpet elephant…
The cheetah mother with her 2 calves…
The graceful giraffes, the zebra-marking's draws on the curved and full zebra's shape and you running after Goosie when she has bitten you on the veldt...
So many memories to listed it all…
Paradise Camps could not exist without your energies to go ahead, your passion and all about the good cause in which you believe…
So so different… and I have been very lucky to learn from you… !
I really want to return one day with my grand son to enjoy again and share with him this amazing and wealth bush experience… and with Alan too…
I wish you the best with all your conservation project, elephants and others attractive saving aspects…
Thanks again for all and keep holding it and enjoyed it too !!!
Kinds Regards,
Frédérique.

and again...

Thank you Craig, and also all of you to have given the best of your place to us, to have shared the wild nature and transmit your knowledge to understand elephants, lions, rhinoceros, buffalo and the Big 5 as well as the birds, the insects, the weather, the sounds of the wild life, everything that I will keep for ever in my hart...........
I am sure that I will be back for me and my grand-children, and I hope also to make on film a documentary on the way you are working to preserve and give the best of your soul to this reserve and all the beautiful animal in harmony with you.
Thank you also for your humour and your fluent talking which I had to try to understand and make me getting better with this beautiful English. I would like so much to spoke better.
Thank you, friendly
Frédérique
 

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Alan Veasey, South Africa (March 2011)

Hi there Adrian,
Well, what an experience, really 10 out of 10 !! I've never had such an amazing bush experience before or hope to again unless i return which is on the cards one day as soon as poss!!
Craig is a wealth of knowledge not only on " the bush " but also on many other interesting subjects and his sense of humour is out of this world.....I've never laughed so much in my life!!!
He has an extremely difficult task on his hands and those who he is tutoring are very lucky to have him to learn from. The very "rustic' camp was a great experience and we were really well looked after by him and his team.
Thanks for putting me onto his camp and for all your help!
All the very best and thanks again.
Alan

Jet, USA  (June 2010)

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"hey there...wanted to let you know I made it home alive.....it was the best ten days of my life....I wanted to know if you had either john or Craig's phone number(s)....I forgot to get it before I left....what a wonderful time and I think I want to go back at Christmas.....I will be sending them some stuff...elli photos, etc...and wanted to sms them to make sure they check their post box...thanks again...jet!!!!"

Vivianne Burns, UK  (March/April 2009)

Hi Adrian 

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to you for my recent trip that you arranged. Considering I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do when I first contacted you, you took the time to talk to me to find out what I was interested in and the suggestions that you made were absolutely perfect! The Transfrontier Africa Conservation Project in Balule was fantastic! I really felt that I was involved in something worthwhile, learnt loads about the animals and bush in general and had great fun and made great friends at the same time. The fact that the camp is unfenced, rustic and you can hear lions roaring and leopards calling their territory whilst you are sitting round the campfire at night made it an even more amazing experience.  Your knowledge of and the love you have for Africa is obvious as is the fact that you will do everything you can to ensure that your customers have a fantastic trip that is right for them.

Thanks again 

Vivianne

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