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Karel and Dorene   –  
Belgium BE
Visited: November 2024 Reviewed: Feb 17, 2025

Email Karel and Dorene  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Unforgettable Safari experience with Earthwings – Our Guide Was Basically a Superhero!
5/5

If you're looking for a top-notch, hassle-free safari experience, stop searching and book with Earthwings Tours and Safaris. Seriously. This small-scale, locally run company in Nairobi, led by the ever-reliable Martin, delivers big on service, transparency, and flexibility. From the moment we requested a quote for our 7-day trip to the second we touched down in Kenya, Martin was always available, answering every question (and there were MANY) with speed, accuracy, and patience.

Customization? No problem. We tweaked the itinerary, upgraded a few lodges, and adjusted transport—all for very reasonable extra costs. Martin even gave us insider tips on train travel and lodge options, making sure our trip from Nairobi to Mombasa was perfectly tailored.

Then came the real adventure.

Meet Ruben - our driver, guide, wildlife whisperer, and certified legend. Right on time, he picked us up, and off we went on our 8-day private safari through Maasai Mara, Nakuru, Naivasha,... Read more Amboseli, and Tsavo East in a rugged Toyota Land Cruiser (fully equipped with charging ports for our camera gear and kept immaculately clean).

Ruben wasn’t just a guide—he was a human binocular with built-in radar for spotting big cats. Seriously, I don’t know how he did it, but within two days, we had seen the Big Five AND the Ugly Five. He wouldn’t rest until we’d ticked off at least four different cats a day, and we drove from sunrise to sunset without ever feeling rushed. His local connections? Also a huge plus—especially when we needed a little extra time at the park gates.

And the lodges? Even the mid-range ones felt luxurious to us! Everything was well-organized, the service was fantastic, and we couldn’t have asked for a smoother ride.

We had such a blast that, after our safari, beach time in the south, and some final days in Nairobi, we booked an extra day in Nairobi National Park—just to go on one more game drive with Ruben!

Bottom line: Earthwings Tours & Safari delivers an unforgettable experience. Great communication, fantastic guides, and fair pricing. If you want an authentic Kenyan safari with people who genuinely care about your experience, book with these guys!

To all future travelers: Enjoy your safari, soak up the beauty of Kenya, and embrace the warmth of its people. You’re in for an adventure of a lifetime!

Annabelle   –  
China CN
Visited: February 2025 Reviewed: Feb 6, 2025

Email Annabelle  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Great Safari team
5/5

The driver and guide Joe was excellent. During the six-day journey, we saw many wonderful moments, including cheetahs hunting, servals and hyenas. Joe was a great driver and guide, and I recommend him with five stars.

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Nicci   –  
United Kingdom UK
Visited: February 2025 Reviewed: Feb 6, 2025

Email Nicci  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Brilliant!
5/5

Fabulous service from start to finish. Ephraim, our guide was such a nice guy who oozed experience and knowledge, we felt very safe both with him, his driving and the locations he took us to.
The first stay at Zebra Plains (little Zebra) was an oasis in the bush. The welcome from Joseph, Moses, Douglas and Martha blue us away, and the friendly nature of everyone there made us feel instantly at home. The food was excellent and the lodge we were allocated was lovely, quirky, cooled perfectly with the fans in the ceiling (over the bed and therefore inside the mosquito nets) and very clean.
Sarova Lion Hill reserve was the next stop and although very different, busier and bigger than the first, it was equally as enjoyable, offering excellent facilities with a big smile.

Jon   –  
United Kingdom UK
Visited: February 2025 Reviewed: Feb 5, 2025

Email Jon  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Efficient, professional and friendly service leading to an unforgettable experience.
5/5

As a first time safari goer, the whole experience with Earthwings made our holiday unforgettable. I will certainly recommend their service to anyone who wants a recommended holiday provider who is professional and delivers a first class service from the time of booking to the return trip back to a designated starting point. First class!

Yu chen   –  
China CN
Visited: January 2025 Reviewed: Jan 31, 2025

Email Yu chen  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Great 7day safari
5/5

Thanks to Martin and John, the schedule is well arranged, and the daily hunting and rest time are very balanced. We will try our best to meet our needs. On the last day of the return, because our flight was very late, the driver John specially asked us to rest at the hotel and leave a little later. The schedule was reasonable and everything was fine! In addition, we have seen almost all the wild animals, including the rare rhinos, and the process of cheetah prey. It's really lucky!

Craig Leonard   –  
United States US
Visited: November 2024 Reviewed: Jan 26, 2025

Email Craig Leonard  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Martin made our stay a lot of fun and very interesting!
5/5

We had more fun with Martin on out tour. He was on time and has a great focus on making sure your tour will be memorable. He is very knowlegeable and engaging, and shares this with you as you are enjoying the landscape and the vast number of animals you willl encounter. He goes out of his way to make sure you see sites you can't even imagine. We were able to see the birth of a baby impala, hippos playing in the river, cheetahs strolling and many more.
If you want a trip where you are where the action is, we highly recommend that you book with Earthwing tours.

Julia   –  
Netherlands NL
Visited: December 2024 Reviewed: Jan 17, 2025

Email Julia  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Excellent
5/5

Everything was very well arranged. Hotels, drivers and knowledgeable guides. We saw everything we wanted and even more.

We were with the kid of 3 y.o., and the special seat for him was also arrange (I think it was brand new or very close to be new).

Among all the companies I talked to I found communication with Martin the most efficient and tailored to the request. The replies were swift and clear.

Thanks Martin and team, would recommend the company to everyone!

Giulia   –  
Italy IT
Visited: January 2025 Reviewed: Jan 13, 2025

Email Giulia  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Exceeded all expectations!
5/5

I'm writing this review one week after our return to Italy, because I wanted all the strongest emotions to soak in, in order to write a review as impartial and useful as possible.
I need to admit that this is quite impossible: yesterday I rewatched the first "The Lion King" and cried as a baby, and this time not only for Mufasa's death, but for each landscape and animal that I've recognised inside the cartoon, and that our perfect guides, Martin and Samuel, were able to spot in the wilderness and show to us.

It's difficult to express how wonderful our first safari was, and how it exceeded all our expectations, thanks to Earthwings.
During the planning phase, I spoke with lots of local agencies in order to ask quotations and assemble itineraries for my 7 days adventure: Martin made the best impression, always so kind and punctual with his answers, always flexible to find together the most suitable solution. I'm also quite paranoid and perfectionist when it comes to planning... Read more a trip, especially when it's a quite expensive one like a safari, so kudos to Martin for dealing with me always gracefully and courteously. :)
I need to admit that I was afraid to wire a lot of money for our down payment (usually our trips are way cheaper and with no need to anticipate such amount of money to anyone :)), but Martin proved absolutely trustworthy.

Coming to the safari itself, we were absolutely lucky to have not only Martin, but also Samuel to be our drivers and guides along all the parks we visited. I honestly did not expect to have two people with us... but when I realised how big (and slow) distances are in Kenya, it was clear that it would have been impossible for just one person to manage all that!
They were both very safe and careful drivers on "normal" roads, but also on parks trails... and most of all they were both formidable animal-spotters. Furthermore, they didn't just point at animals, but they also supplied lots of information about them and about nature in general. They really provided an incredible added value to our experience.
We were also able to see all the Big Five, and the precise moment when we spotted our last one, the leopard, is already the best moment of my 2025... and even if there are still more than 11 months to go, I think it will stay firmly at least in my personal top three. ;)

...Finally, most of all, Martin and Samuel really are the nicest human beings. We were happy to see them in the morning, happy to spend the day with them, happy to share meals. I know that it was work for them, and I'm not sure they were so happy to wake up often at sunrise for us :D ...but they were really able to make our experience wonderful also from a "human" point of view.

I could tell one thousand things more, but I'm afraid I would just bore you. ;)
I hope I was able to let you feel at least one ounce of the joy I was able to experience in my week aroung Tsavos, Amboseli, Nakuru, Masai Mara and Naivasha parks.
Go with Earthwings... you will not regret it.

Jing   –  
United States US
Visited: December 2024 Reviewed: Jan 8, 2025

Email Jing  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Very professional
5/5

We had a 14 days Kenya and Tanzania trip with Earthwings, we are very happy with the way they managed the logistics as the cross country trip can be tricky. We had very smooth transitions between boarders.

Also the tour guilds are amazing. We had John and Rubeun. John has unbelievable naked eye vision that he can spot rare animals from miles away. Rubeun knows all the spots that make great pictures. All the guilds are very knowledgeable about the parks and animals. Overall we had a very memorable family trip.

Nuri   –  
United States US
Visited: December 2024 Reviewed: Dec 27, 2024

Email Nuri  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Best tour operator in all of Kenya
5/5

Earthwings was absolutely incredible. They are highly professional, great communicators, and took us on the best safari. My partner and I booked a private jeep tour of Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru, and we had an amazing time. Our guide, John, is very experienced and taught us so much about the nature, animals, and region. He was the reason our experience was so fantastic. The camps booked for us through Earthwings were great and we felt very taken care of. We loved our time on Safari through Earthwings, and highly recommend them. We will book with them again if we have the chance.

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