In January 2004 I travelled to South Africa on Business for almost a month. As a group of work colleagues, we ended up taking one of the weekends I was there and spending it with Dries. A group of my colleagues and I hired him, after several of us had the great misfortune of being robbed by what we were told most likely were Somali thugs while walking to our Hotel several nights earlier. Dries gave us a solid rundown of what parts of town were good and bad, and advised us on several other travel issues conerning our safety in South Africa. He then led us on a 1 day guided tour of Pilanesburg and Sun City. I've never had a more relaxing time, where I was able to set the worries and stress of the previous week aside and just simply be with where I was at. Dries made that possible by his easy laid back demeanor, friendly open attitude, and vast wealth of knowledge on nature, pointing out almost every local bird speciec there was and several other animal sightings we had thanks to his knowledge of the area and keen eye. He also took us afterward for some adult fun at Sun City where we played a few card games, mostly slots though, and guided us around to the various attractions and fun things to do. Dries made what would have been a boring business trip into an epic adventure, one I will remember the rest of my life.

Last summer, we went on a trip in South-Africa, from Cape Town all the way to Johannesburg. Due to our guide Dries, this holiday has been my best holiday so far. You could ask him everything and he knew the answer. From all kind of birds to buildings in different cities, it seemed as if there was nothing that Dries didn't know. All his knowledge and enthusiasm made it a beautiful experience and through this review, I would like to thank Dries once again for the amazing trip! One thing is sure, once I will come back to this beautiful country, and this is mainly due to Dries! Dries, thank you for the amazing experience! Hubrecht

Dries was extremely knowledgable and tailored the tour to things that I wanted to see. He also added things that he fought might be interesting and I have spent very interesting couple of hours touring around Pretoria with him. Very friendly and open-minded person.