Kimberley Safari Tours: a business that really gives its vehicles a thorough testing!
Among the many businesses that we in particular would like to see do well this year is Matthew and Carmel Bambach’s tourism business, Kimberley Safari Tours.
Last year, thanks to Covid 19, the business was put on hold and it’s hoped that this year, the seventh season that the business has operated, better things will happen.
While it’s early days in 2021, it does look promising.
Though there are no international tourists, the business this year is heavily reliant on Australians participating… and fortunately, Australians love these trips as the tours cover places and aboriginal sites with detailed explanations that could never be obtained by other means.
The reviews on the company website well and truly prove it.
Kimberley Safari Tours is a family operated business, run by Matt and Carmel with Matt’s brother Andrew taking a major role along with son, Joel. On occasions their other children, Elise and Tom act as helpers.
The tour leaders are Matt and Andrew, an extraordinary pair who have an immense amount of travelling behind them.
Matt has worked in a considerable number of third world countries while Andy has led tours in Africa in such places as the Serengeti in Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana.
The business also employ a mechanic, a camp cook and an expert on indigenous culture.
The operation is equipped with four 4x4 Isuzu buses – two FTs 750s and two FTs 800s that encounter the most rugged of corrugated roads that any bus could possibly endure.
Needless to say they have upgraded suspension.
Further to that, the buses are remarkably well fitted out – even to the point of having charger plugs for mobile phones/ cameras for all of the passengers.
Most of their tours take in the famed Gibb River Road, and some of the most rugged and remote parts of the Kimberley including the Mitchell Plateau, The Bungle Bungles and Wolfe Creek Crater. Other tours include Karijini National Park, WA's Coral Coast and the isolated Mt Augustus.
For those interested, there are a range of amazing tours and itineraries outlined on the website www.gibbriverroadtours.com.au
In addition to their standard tours, Kimberley Safari Tours is available for a range of charter tours – through the Kimberley and even to other states in the country.
These vehicles travel a mix of highways and backroads some of which are really rugged and remote.
Needless to say, they need to be particularly well maintained otherwise they could have passengers stranded in some of the most remote spots of northern WA.
Basic maintenance is handled by a full-time on-site mechanic but when the buses return to Perth at the end of the season a thorough going over is undertaken at Major Motors.
‘We have been really pleased with the level of service we have received from Majors and by the reliability of our buses, Matt said.
‘Obviously our business is totally reliant upon them, so reliability along with availability of parts and thorough servicing is crucial to the very survival of the business’.
If you would like a really laid back adventure holiday seeing some of the most interesting parts of Western Australia take a look at their website.
