I have been to Zimbabwe on two hunts and am planning on going back in May of 2008 with Chifuti Safaries which I have heard only good things about. Having said that...

Someone I would NOT GO WITH is a guy by the name of Lloyd Yateman--he has a bad reputation among those in his profession--his brother Kent is another blow hole I would run away from..Together they run a horrible operation. totally mismanaged--poor equipment --and all around untruthful about almost everything.

Their equipment was in very, very poor shape--when I hunted with them in 2004 I was with 2 other hunters--one of the hunters had to sit in his hut the first 3 days--because the clutch was out of one of the vehicles--

Every day we had to push to vehicles to get them started..the trackers complained to me about not being paid since the last hunt--told me that they would only work GOOD if I paid them some money on the side--It was my FIRST African experience and it was a horrible experience at that---

Ripp