Destination Jungle Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2009)
- Member Of:
- ATTA, APTA, AUTO & UTB
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $400 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Gina | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Paradise in Uganda
I visited Uganda in November of 2015. I was extremely happy with the professionalism , the English knowledge and the cultural knowledge of my guide Charles Wagaana . The trip was a dream come true. Charles made sure that I'd have a first rate cultural experience, interacting with local population, stopping to eat local food and experiencing local music and local dances form the variety of tribes that make up Uganda. Extremely pleased with the services of Destination Jungle. I will definitely use them again and I highly recommend the company.
Email Steve and Judith | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A superb experience giving us a wide view of western Uganda, it's scenery, animals and way of life!
The pre holiday communication was excellent, with emails and phone calls from Christina. We mostly followed a company tour of Western Uganda. After the first night in Kampala, with amazing views of lake Victoria, we travelled to Murchison Falls in the north west, then south through game parks and wonderful scenery.
Ismail, our guide really put himself out to make sure that we had a fantastic experience, and he succeeded. He was determined to find the leopard living in the ruins of the burnt out lodge. Success! The game drives were varied and the boat trips too gave us splendid animal and bird viewings as well as a visit to a fishing village and a local school. The chimpanzee trek, relatively easy walking through the forest, was well rewarded with the chimpanzees in the trees and then on the ground, so close to us. The gorilla trek over challenging terrain was a real highlight. It was worth every penny, a real MUST DO! Ismail looked after us so well, making sure that we were in the group for the nearest gorilla family because of our age etc. But the guides were all determined that we would all succeed and enjoy the experience. They had even carried one lady all the way back. I was determined that wouldn't be me!!!!!! The gorilla family of 10 or 11, with two babies, was so close. They moved around and entertained us for about an hour, then began to melt into the forest. They knew our time was up!!! What an experience. We were so pleased we made it.
The roads /tracks were an experience in themselves and we were so grateful for the land cruiser with its good suspension. Even so it was a rough old ride in places. A mini bus would not have been so good.
The lodges were all very comfortable, all with mosquito nets, and beautiful locations. The menus were limited because there were so few other guests. But the choice was adequate and the food very acceptable. The service was amazing throughout. All staff were so anxious to please, they insisted on cleaning our boots after the trek, and also ironed a couple of shirts I had washed. I even had an impromptu late birthday cake at the first lodge!
We were just thrilled with the whole trip. Many thanks to Ismail for his care and commitment in making it such a memorable adventure.
Should anyone be interested, you can see our photo book on Blurb.co .uk. East Africa Safari 2016
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Email Manuela | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
beautiful country , excellent organization
at the beginning of the trip our flight was delayed by a day but the guide was there waiting too . our program was very intense and everything was done in the best way , covering great distances . excellent ability to make us discover the fauna also poultry uganda and the good relationship between the guide and my 11 year old son .
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Email Christinah | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Gorilla safari to visit gorillas was memorable
At the end of last year, i visited in Uganda and then in Kenya and Rwanda. I like so much to visit East Africa for many years. My trip was organised by Christina a lady who was very positive and friendly. My self and my husband begun our trip on 5th November and booked a flight to Kigali in Rwanda where a nice man received us from the airport and took us to the lodge.
From this moment, we received a good communication about all the expectation of our safari and then we had our dinner and went to sleep. not much for a first day, we were tired from the flight.
The following day begins our safari and we visit many local shops in kigali and also the memorial of the genocide. Then we drive with the guide to Volcanoes park and we loved it here so much. We remained two nights at Villa Gorilla lodge, it is a small owner managed guest house just near to the gorillas. Then in the following days, we went into the forest to visit the gorillas two times. Very nice to keep this momory with us. The together with the guide crossed the border up to Uganda side to visit the community of the pygmies and they made good entertainment for us.
Then we travelled up to Queen Elizabeth park and discovered the tree climbing lions in the trees. It was wonderful. We stayed at a nice eco lodge, in Ishasha, at Ishasha Jungle Lodge. Also in our visit we visited Kibale forest to visit the chimpansee and also the nice birds in this forest. Then we went to Murshicon falls and it was aa good moment on the nile in a nice boat up to see the water fall.
We loved so much our holiday in these countries and later we flew to Kenya to visit many other parks of animals. We love East Africa and these nice people. This company organise our trip very well.
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Email Meridith | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The Nile adventure safari with Destination Jungle Safaris
We begin our trip plans to visit Uganda in July last year and having made contact with various companies to provide us with itineraries and quotes, we found this company Destination Jungle more desirable for our travels.
The lady who was in contact with us, Christina was very informative, very friendly and also very professional with all our questions about our concerns. The trip was well organised and the guide we were assigned was perfect. Patrick was always very concerned with our comfort and he is a careful driver. So many animals he showed to us and also surprised us with interesting stories about the culture in Uganda. We loved our trip and have no complaints. We don't hesitate to recommend it
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Email Christian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Cleverness and smartness inclouded
organized by Christina, realized by Abdul ...
was a realy nice trip and sure it is a good teamplay of Christina and Abdul.
Only the locations of the lodges could have been better situated, so that driving time
could be reduced. That is the one and only point that keeps me from rating "excellent".
Abdul organized and managed, even with this little mistake, our group in a perfect way,
so that we could see all the expected animals and would have been at every place in time
to get the best connection or boot. Cleverness and smartness is at Destination Jungle inclouded.
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Email Sjoerd | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great time in the Ruwenzori's with Destination Jungle
Together with two friends I did a 9 day trekking and the ascend of Mt Margaritha and Mt Speke organised by Destination Jungle. We had a great time. On the airport there was a pick up, we had a good hotel in Entebbe, a perfect drive to the Ruwenzori, the trekking was good organised (only the food could have been al little bit better) and after the trekking Destination Jungle had a big suprise for us. We stayed our last night in a very nice resort near the crater lakes. A big treat after spending nine days in the mountains. I checked other touristorganisations for trekking in the Ruwenzori's and Destination Jungle gives us the best price and the quality was high.
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Email Eileen S. | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Don't Worry, Be Happy.
Destination Jungle could easily adopt the title of the song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" as their slogan. I originally contacted Destination Jungle because they offered the best rates for the trip I wanted. All through the planning process, my agent, Christina, happily answered all my questions (and there were quite a few) and made suggestions for the optimal experience in my travel to Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. When I arrived at my first destination, Christina was there to introduce herself and brief me on the itinerary. She and my guides were accommodating, knowledgeable, friendly, and made me feel welcome and at ease in my travel as a single woman in unfamiliar territory. I couldn't ask for more. Traveling with Destination Jungle was a wonderful experience, and I was absolutely "happy", with "no worry". Thanks, Destination Travel!
Eileen S.
West Deptford, NJ - USA
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Fantastic experience sitting with the gorillas!
Two friends and I traveled to Volcanoes National Park with Destination Jungle. Our guide Kirenga was so knowledgeable about Rwandan history that he gave us insightful context throughout our visit. The agency organized our visas for golden monkey and gorilla visitations. We stayed at the beautiful and comfortable Mountain Gorilla view Lodge. What a nice place to come home to after spending the morning in the wet and muddy jungle!
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Email Natasha Ivashkina | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
New year in Uganda
From the beginning of the preparing of this trip I had not problems with this agency and its tour consultant Christina. Christina is very communicated, clever, flexible and very easy women. We were 7 Russian tourists. We traveled from 29th of December to 9th of January 2014. Christina met us at airport. We had safari in Elizabeth National Park, Murchison NP. We saw different African animals so like hippopotamus, different monkeys, birds, elephants, giraffes, antelopes, wart hogs, lions, crocodiles and so on. We celebrated New Years day in the lake Nkuruba. But only one thing was not ok: our driver did not celebrate it with us. We were very sad. We didn't invite him. But we didn't know he waited for our invite. So, note: please, if you want to invite your driver to celebrate something, say it to him). In Elgon NP we made tracking to Wagagai pick (4321 m). Then we had rafting on the White Nile. Everywhere we were with our professional driver. They kindly showed us their country: their life and people. They kindly explained us every thing we did not understand. Our trip was very bright and memorable. Thank you so much Christina and Destination Jungle for making this trip wonderful for us