PH & TH Travel

20/01/2024

The 2024 University of Delaware group have been having a busy and very varied programme with us. They are such a super group and are really appreciating all that South Africa has to offer. Our safari at Milima Lodge in the Greater Kruger Park was a real highlight! Lions, elephants, leopards with a baby, and the smaller, very pretty creatures such as Impala, and the fabulous sense of being in the middle of the African Bushveld. The photo is of a very large, male elephant who was very calm and came right near our safari vehicle, just to say hullo. Wonderful animal!

04/11/2023

We have been working hard to put together a really special tour for our January 2024 group from University of Delaware. Toni will be leading this group and we are looking forward to welcoming Prof Karen Parker as the lead professor with the group and to welcoming her group of students. So much planned: Placements with charities; a variety of excursions, including to Robben Island where Neson Mandela was imprisoned; and a stay at a truly spectacular Game Lodge in the Greater Kruger Park, where the Big Five and so many more species roam totally free and wild.
Photo taken in January 2023 with the previous group. A herd of totally wild elephants at the lodge waterhole.

08/08/2023

Our 2023 tour in January was greatly appreciated by Prof Goodwin’s group. Students had a really busy program with us and we are delighted to have hosted them, and given them memories to last a life time.

We are currently planning for a new group in January 2024. Watch this space for more information.

09/07/2023

After a long break during the awful pandemic, I am pleased that in January of this year, we had our first Delaware University group since the pandemic for a tour which was greatly enjoyed by the students and faculty member Steve Goodwin. We are offering another tour in January 2024 for University of Delaware students. We welcome any enquiries and are so excited again to be working with Delaware University.
Posted by Toni Hasler, Owner and Director, PH and TH Travel.

11/05/2020

Thank you, Michael Dallas, from the 1997 University of Delaware group, for the photos.

08/05/2020

Down memory lane. For students wishing to share photos of their tour year please email Toni at:
[email protected]
Patrick and I will go through them and will be happy to share them. Thank you all for the great memories!

08/05/2020

TH posted:
Photos from the very first tour in 1996, with Prof. James Davis (seen in all photos) from University of Delaware. University budgets were far smaller and students stayed in budget hotels. For their Safari they stayed in the cheaper,but very pretty, thatched huts in the Kruger National Park instead of the luxury lodges that today’s students stay in. Our rangers in those days carried guns, as you can see in the group photo. That was in case lions were lurking near by but the guns were never used, luckily! Rangers don’t often carry guns these days. Also helping out then were my two daughters, Nadia, aged 15 years old, next to the student in the black T-shirt, and Kelly, aged 10 years old and the group mascot. Patrick is wearing the white hat and I am on the right, kneeling next to a student. Patrick and I used to drive the “Biz Bus” ourselves - again because of low budgets. These days luxury coaches are used. The tour that year was a great adventure for all students and for my family! A student from this group, Amy Pastore Rademaker, sent her son in later years to Wilmington School, in Delaware, and the school came on a tour with us in 2019 as a result of Amy’s amazing memories of the very first tour. Fabulous memories for all of us!

08/05/2020

08/05/2020

During this Corona Virus lockdown, I have been looking back at photos and videos which I have taken of the many "Study Abroad " trips which Toni and I have arranged over the last 24 years. So many faces are familiar although sadly my memory for many of the names to accompany them has become a little sketchy. However with your help, I hope that I can rectify this. So I shall be putting a series of photos and/or videos on Facebook during the next few weeks, starting with the Delaware groups of 2002 and 2003. Sadly I don't have photos of the earlier groups although some of you may. Toni ,however, has photos from 1996 when the first tour took place and she will post those also in due course. Students who came on those early tours can let us know.
So I will start with a few from 2002/3. Let me know if you recognize yourself OR anyone else.

11/01/2020

TH posted:
University of Delaware, Gaines Hanks Students learned about the horrors of poaching over a dead rhino carcass which had been shot by poachers in the Rietvlei Game Reserve just outside Pretoria. With Honorary Ranger, William Dunn, who took the group hiking in the Reserve.

06/01/2020

TH posted:
University of Delaware, Gaines Hanks group, getting friendly with Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings. Pretoria.

05/01/2020

TH posted:
Welcome to our two University of Delaware groups. Thank you Norma Gaines Hanks, Francis Kwansa and Steve Goodwin for touring with us again. We look forward to giving your groups a truly fabulous experience in South Africa. A warm welcome to all of you.