About Hunting Africa Safaris
About Hunting Africa
Hunting Africa is a South African based hunting outfitter with Willie Vermaak who owns, runs and oversees each hunting safari a professional hunter. Hunting Africa’s main base of operations is situated in the Free State town of Welkom. Hunting Africa is also a fully licensed and fully registered hunting outfitter.
We provide a wide variety of hunting safaris and adventures from big game hunts, plains game and bird hunting as well as photographic safaris. All of our safaris are run under Willie’s expert guidance as well as to a very high standard.
Willie acquired his status as a professional hunter in 1992 from the prestigious Johan Calitz Professional Hunting School.
Today, Hunting Africa boasts with 24 years of experience in the South African hunting industry and is still a top notch own-run hunting outfitter. Our hunting safaris and adventures are designed to give hunters a hunting experience like no other through our wide array of various packages on offer. We also create tailor-made hunting safari packages that can cater to the requirements of our clients.
How We Do Things
Each hunting safari is planned, organized, conducted and guided by Willie himself. We conduct our hunting safaris all across Southern Africa including South Africa itself, Namibia, Botswana and more. Our hunting safaris also offer hunters a chance to experience the Big Five, a plethora of plains game, various bird hunting excursions, as well as some of the most beautiful locales with out varied photographic safari packages.
Our Hunting Safaris
We also offer all of the following per default in ALL of our hunting packages:
- A meet-up services at your point of arrival.
- We take care of all transport arrangements personally.
- We check you into your accommodation.
- We guide and accompany all of our hunters during their hunting trip and/or tour.
- We arrange your meals during your entire stay and, in some cases, we prepare them ourselves.
We take every aspect into careful account to ensure that our hunting safaris are an experience. We therefore take your own personal requirements into account when we plan your hunting safari.
And, once your trip is complete, we make sure that you reach your point of departure safe and sound when you’re travelling back home.
The Accommodation We Use
During your hunting trip, we make sure that the accommodation you’ll stay at is of the best quality.
The range of accommodation include:
- Luxurious 4-star lodges and hotels.
- East African styled tented camps in the bush.
- Thatched roof lodges.
- Sandstone cottages that are nestled within picturesque mountain ranges.
All meals and beverages that are served at your accommodation are of a high standard and always try to cater for each client’s personal tastes and preferences as best we can.
About Willie Vermaak
Born and raised in South Africa, Willie graduated from the University of Potchefstroom in the early 1980s. Willie joined the South African Defense Force during the conflict in Namibia and Angola. Leaving his military career behind as a captain, Willie turned to hunting to become a qualified professional hunter and hunting guide from the prestigious Johan Calitz Hunting School.
Willie became a freelance hunter for many local hunting outfitters over the years until he established and registered Hunting Africa in 2002.
Today, Willie has 24 years of experience in the hunting industry. He’s a proficient rifle, bow and shotgun hunter and is a member in good standing with KZNHA. Willie enjoys the whole experience of hunting in Africa and is equally at ease guiding hunters on a variety of plains game hunts, bird hunting safaris or stalking dangerous game.
In addition to being a professional hunting guide and a hunting outfitter, Willie is also a THETA qualified national tour guide and tour operator.
When Willie’s isn’t conducting a hunting safari, you will find him in the bush sharing his knowledge with tourists who want to experience all things African.
Willie’s Experience
Willie has conducted hunting safaris and tours across all of the countries that make up Southern Africa: South Africa itself, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe as well as Mozambique.
In addition to hunting, fishing and touring, Willie has culled thousands of plains game on a large scale for export of venison for human consumption to the European restaurant market.
Willie has travelled extensively across central Europe, across all of the Scandinavian countries, across the United States of America and also across Africa.
Willie believes that modern day conservation as well as sustainable hunting practices, will ensure that wildlife will be ecologically safe in Africa for future generations to come.
Our Worldwide Partners
BETSY SCHONBERGER, WINGSHOOTERS WORLDWIDE 601-983-6767, 601-326-2444 855-846-0626, 877-334-9477 (Fax) www.wingshootersworldwide.com/ |
PETE SWANEPOEL Tel. nr. 720-277 1920 Website: www.safaribwana.com/ E-mail: info@safaribwana.com Denver, Colorado |
GUY HOH Tel. nr. +6597953167 E-mail: guy@singaporesportshooting.com Blaze Sporting Clays Singapore Website: www.singaporesportshooting.com |
BILL O DE SHAW Tel. nr. 406-490-6075 E-mail: wyominghuntingoutfitters@gmail.com Wyoming Hunting Outfitter Website: www.wyominghuntingoutfitter.com |
MARIO CILIA Tel. nr. (00356) 99445606 E-mail: mbamba0243@gmail.com |