Lunch at Neema Craft on 4 days safari to Ruaha NP
Kitonga Tours and Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 1-5 employees (Founded in 2019)
- Tour Types:
- Small & medium group tours (Budget)
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $100 to $450 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
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Reviews
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Email Jean | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Good organised and friendly people
The safari guides Paul en Alex are professionals and gave a lot of information during the safari tour.They respect also the time schedule.The drivers drove safely.
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Email Mimi | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
breathtaking
breathtaking is the word that sums up the experience that I lived! gerald and the guid were always kind, helpful, friendly and taught us many curiosities, without ever making us miss anything just like the cook. I highly recommend their agency because we have shown all the animals that the paroc hosts. if you come here rely on them.
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Email Ania | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3 Days in Ruaha National Park and two days in Iringa – with teenager girls
We (mother with twin-daughters at 16 years), had a wonderful Safari-tour with Kitonga Tours. I started the preparations 4 months before the trip, and had close mail-correspondence with Paul from the Kitonga-office for several months. It was very important for me that we got the “perfect” tour, and I had many questions regarding the tour-plan, timing, transportation, pricing etc, which Paul always answered fast and patiently. So, I felt very confident and safe to use Kitonga as our tour-agency.
Before going to Iringa/Ruaha we spend some days in the North of Tanzania, so we had arranged with Kitonga to pick us up in Kondoa. We were picked up here in a very nice and comfortable transfer car, so the 9 hour drive to Iringa was just nice and relaxing, with wonderful view of local life and nature along the road. We were served cold drinks along the whole way, could charge our phones in the car, wi-fi was available most of the time, and the driver was driving safely. We slept at “Iringa Sunset Hotel”, a very nice place with great view from the terrasse-restaurant, very nice rooms, and extremely friendly staff. The only thing to comment on was the weather: In the end of June it was quite cold here.
Early next morning we started the beautiful drive (3 hours) to Ruaha National Park, and by noon we started the game-drive in the park. The wildlife in Ruaha is fascinating. In three days we saw a LOT of animals. The park is famous for the large number of elephants, and there are also very many giraffes, impalas, water bucks, baboons, etc. We also saw several lions, jackals, buffalo’s, and even wild dogs, and some animals we never had heard about before. Paul and the driver were good at spotting the animals, and explaining about them.
The Park is very big, and therefore we were sometimes driving for a while without spotting any animals, but the landscape in the park is really amazing – not at least all the huge and old Baobab trees. There are also many beautiful palm trees, funny sausage trees, and a lot more. But the main reason to visit Ruaha is the quite atmosphere, and the less amount of other tourists. Here you do not drive in a long row of cars, there will often pass hours without seeing another Safari-car, and you therefor get a feeling of an authentic safari-experience. The bandas where we were sleeping inside the park were simple but charming, with animals grassing outside during the night.
Kitonga Tours did a great job in arranging and realizing our Safari-tour – making our dream come true.
Email Stefania | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
FANTASTIC 3 day Ruaha Safari
We had an amazing experience and saw so many animals. Gerald was great at communicating with us and was willing to help problem solve when we had issues with payment. Please be aware the expectation is a downpayment that is done online but when you arrive in person the remaining is paid in cash unless you pay all online in advance.
The team on the safari was very relaxed and made us feel comfortable in every way. The driver shared so much interesting information with us and was so patient letting us sit and enjoy a view for as long as we wanted. The chef did a great job of cooking delicious meals. Of course I recommend bringing some snacks as well because if you are only traveling in Tanzania for a few days, your stomach will not be used to all of the new ingredients. We didn't have any issues but we also have been living in Tanzania for some time now.
The 3-day and two night tour felt like the perfect amount of time. We went in August (winter for Tanzania) and I was a bit surprised at how cool it can be during the sunrise game drives especially when the car windows are down. I recommend bringing layers, or a small coat.
Again, a lovely experience. Would use the same company again in a heartbeat. And from what we experienced and what the driver told us, Ruaha is a great park because it's not as touristy as others. Very true, we sometimes went 3-4 hours without seeing any other vehicle so it makes the experience so special and private.
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Email Haobing | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
7days kilimanjaro trekking
very nice team. The guide, cook and porters are all excellent. This will be an unforgettable experience for me. Welcome to choose them and Welcome to Tanzania.
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Email K.Nagarajan | 50-65 years of age
Guide Mudy was a great guide .Take care me lot and experience guy and friendly too
Is the best company with reasonable pricing .good hotel provide for me.
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Email Inessa | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
I can’t describe because our son was in touch with the tour operator
I can only write about our two amazing guides- Paul and Issa. All the communication was done by our son. But the tour itself was very well planned. Paul and Issa became our dear friends who succeeded to make our trip - the best experience ever ! We really hope we’ll come back one day and will FOR SURE choose only Paul an Issa again. We highly appreciate their wonderful job! Thank you!
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Email Per Ola Fenre | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Meet dik-dik, playing lions, hippo and grieving mother elephant - meet Ruaha
Many companies offer safari tours, companies with skills and
lots of experience.
Kitonga Tours & Safaris in Ruaha National Park offers both, but first of all a warm and friendly attitude, and deep respect and love for all animals and the nature around them.
Ruaha is a lovely place, a huge, beautiful, wildlife-rich national park.
We drove in on Christmas Eve, met immediately four playing and proud lions, a grieving mother elephant - just lost her baby - and the tallest and sweetest giraffe
‘ever’.
Our guides Given and Alex were outstanding. Steady, calm, informing and dedicated, with lots of humor.
Our four days and three nights in wild Ruaha will remain a solid milestone in our lives. The tripping hippos. Sleeping crocodile. And hungry leopard. And the sweet ranger following us to the bandas at night with a kalashnikov in her fist. We could meet an eating hippo around, dining after dark. Or just a lion.
Warm and kind regards to Given, Alex, Paul and Salom at Kitongas.
Best,
Katinka, Truls, Jeanette and Per Ola
from Norway
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Email Chris Mercieca | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Day Trip!
I had a fantastic safari in Ruaha National Park with Kitonga Tours! I saw so much in my one day trip leaving from Iringa – elephants, giraffes, zebras, crocodiles, ostriches and even several lions up close. Our guide and driver did a fantastic job in leading the trip and showing us the best spots, and Paul from the office was also very helpful in finding a group that I could join as a solo traveller. Highly recommended!
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Email Maria | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Thank you Kitonga Tours for a fantastic safari trip delivered without flaws!
I am writing a review as we found that organizing a safari in Tanzania without going through an agent has been very complex.
Costs are very high and how to know if the company you are hiring is any good for the price?
We are a French/Danish family with two children (11 and 15 years) that went to game drive in the beautiful, large and less crowded Ruaha national park with a total of 5 nights of which 3 nights were spent inside the park in August 2022 (we stayed the 2 other nights in transit in Iringa).
We chose to travel by jeep from Dar Es Salaam to the Ruaha park and even though it is a long journey of approx. 12 hours to Iringa, we were very happy to have done it as it gave us a great possibility to see and enjoy The Tanzanian countryside.
All the details of the 6 days (5 nights) trip package were coordinated via email/sms with Paul (our guide) and everything was delivered without flaw. We met Gerald the owner of the company in Iringa, a very simpatic and smiley man before driving further via a long and bumpy dirt road to the Ruaha park entrance.
Paul (guide) and Isa (our driver and guide) were both with us the entire trip and did everything they could to accommodate our wishes and always arrived on time when we were to be picked up in the morning.
Isa was an excellent driver on road (feeling very safe including when we drove from Dar Es Salaam to Ruaha) and off road before and in the park (agile and comfortable)
Their safari jeep was in excellent condition and very comfortable to sit in and with a small refrigerator to keep the water bottles cool. We felt safe at all times.
Isa and Paul were very helpful in spotting animals - we saw all the big five (among others) except the Rhino that does not live in the park.
We ended the tour having a great and relaxed relationship with them. Both are really nice and sympathetic people.
The Ruaha park is a gem offering a large variety of colourful landscape and vegetation ( rivers, flat and dry terrain, hills , rocky area, with many plant species including many Baobab trees in certain areas, and combining dry and green areas in August ). We really appreciated there were extremely few jeeps inside the Ruaha park, so we could get an authentic feeling of being on a safari, and it was possible to drive for long distances and many hours without meeting another jeep. Be aware however that in this park you will not see dense packs of animals like buffalos, zebras, antelopes like you can see in the Serengeti park. You will find more sparced and smaller groups of animals within a larger park.
We can highly recommend a tour organised with Kitonga Tours. Kitonga Tours will also be highly capable to organise safari tours to all other national parks in Tanzania.