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Below is just some of the incredible feedback we’ve had from clients returning from their journeys with us to some of our destinations. If you have travelled with us and would like to share your experience, we would love to hear from you!
Nancy J.
Travel Destination - Tanzania
Beth S.
Travel Destination - Tanzania
Connie N.
Travel Destinations - Austria, Slovenia, Germany, and Italy
I am blessed beyond words to be just back from a 14-day European adventure with Periquito Adventures and Travel, and OMG it was an absolute blast!
You’d never know it, but apparently this was the test run for a new concept of travel that Susie is thinking of creating… Healing Travel… and she is thinking of calling the brand either Good Grief or THRIVE Souljourns. I guess we’ll find out soon because the concept and the trip were both out of this world.
Susie was able to lead our small group through Austria, Slovenia, Germany, and Italy without a hitch. Well, there was ONE small hitch… IT SNOWED IN GERMANY IN MAY! It was the first time it has snowed that late in the year in Germany in more than 40 years, so we let Susie off the hook for that!
I have too many wonderful memories to list them all here, but think that the concept of small group travel to amazing places in order to heal, recharge, and find balance again in one’s life is a concept that I can get behind 100%. I came on this trip having just lost my mother and dog to cancer, and a good friend to an accident just 2 months earlier. I was down in the dumps and not much fun to be around. My life had devolved into sadness and I found myself just sort of going through the motions every day, but without any gusto or purpose. So, this trip and this concept of travel could not have come along at a better time for me!
Thank you Periquito Adventures! I wish you every success as you launch this new restorative type of travel! The world needs it mightily!
Eliot and Sue W.
Travel Destination - Tanzania
This is a trip for almost anyone! At 76, with a few challenges of my own, I could participate in everything without any worries. The staff at the camps were so helpful, and Susie and Felix were ever-vigilant, so I was unconcerned. I never expected to have the trip of a lifetime at my age! I’m in love with Tanzania, and would recommend Wanderful Tanzania to anyone wanting an amazing, worry-free journey into God’s wonderland!
Felix was the utmost talented professional. Managing to combine incredible knowledge of animals, plants, cultural history, and geography, effortlessly. He was personable, warm, and kind. He never tired of our questions, even though he must get the same questions from guests on every safari he leads.
Grant V.
Travel Destination - Europe
How do I begin to put into words what I experienced on this trip to Europe?
I guess the first thing I think to myself is “Why did I wait so long to do this?” And the second thing I think is “Thank God I trusted my gut and just said YES when my friend asked me to join her on what she described as an “experimental” trip to Europe.
We saw 4 countries over 14 days, and I laid eyes on things I thought only existed in fairytales. I will never forget how I felt when we arrived into Bled, Slovenia! We had just come from 3 days of unexpected snow in Germany which was beautiful and all, but Slovenia was simply spectacular!
The sun was out, the sky was so blue, and the air was fresh and clean! The little town of Bled is built on the shore of a tiny alpine lake surrounded by the snow-capped Julian Alps. There a tiny island in the middle of the lake (the only island in Slovenia, as I understand it). There is a church on the island, and an old clock tower from the 1400’s, I believe.
There is a bell in the church called “the wishing bell”, and the story says that if you can make the bell ring three times from one pull of the chain, your wish will come true. You can’t imagine how many times that bell rang during the 4 days we were in Bled… but each time it brought a huge smile to my face.
Up above the town on a huge rocky outcropping is the Bled Castle. Susie surprised us with a beautiful dinner in the castle one evening, and a trip to visit the wine-making monks as well. A couple of people in our group were able to bottle their own wine, and one person learned to open a champagne bottle with a sword! It was so much fun!
I cannot recommend Periquito Adventures highly enough… it was just outstanding from start to finish! I wish Susie every success with her new brand of health and wellness travel… she simply understands people, and gets that travel heals… well, almost everything!
