Owned and managed by Magda Vrijs and Edward Mollel
Flash Safaris and Photography
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2005)
- Member Of:
- TATO & TTB
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $250 to $950 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
NL
Flash (I will be) Back
My first trip to Africa I booked with Flash and was really a life time experience. Magda, Edward and their staff are very professional and make you feel real welcome. They proved nothing is to much in helping you. There quick intervention when I experienced some health problems in the bush was outstanding. Things were fixed in no time and the safari could continue.
Thanks to the experienced and very professional guide Adam I had a perfect time in the Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire Parks.
Flash selects only the best lodges. Also the tented lodges were perfect.
Sleeping in a tent surrounded by wildebeest and zebra’s and hearing a lion roaring close by is so freaking exiting!
The pictures I took are beautiful and I enjoy looking at them and Photoshopping them but new plans are made to go back to Tanzania. And my tour operator definitely will be Flash Safaris and Photography !
NL
Email Lenny Sinke | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Simply the best for your Tanzania experience!
Lucky me, I visited Tanzania for the 4th time and of course with Flash Safaris. Flash Safaris is a trustworthy and professional agent in a country that´s more than just an experience to visit.
Flash organizes everything perfectly and personally: your wishes are Flash´s comment. letting them know what I expected and they respond quickly and adequatly.The staff I met, the guide(s) I travelled with, the lodges and camps I stayed in..... everybody is qualified, very hospitable and most friendly. The equipment I travelled with are of good and safe quality. The places I visited were the best!!!
Booking a trip like that usuallly is a once in a lifetime experience, but onze the African virus gets to you... you want to visit Tanzania again!! Flash made it happen for me, so can do it for you no doubt!
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Another amazing stay in Tanzania!
After 8 years my second visit to Tanzania, what a beautiful nature and country!! Both visits perfectly organized by Magda of Flash Safaris. The guide of our trip Adam was the best. He knew the perfect spots, he had humor and had eyes of an eagle. Even from a far distance he could recognize the animals. We were lucky to see all of the big Five! We visited the Serengeti (including a balloon safari, great experience), Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangira National Park and for some relaxation a stay at Africa Amini Maasai lodge to experience and meet the Maasai. This was a really special and magnificent place, with a perfect sunrise over mount Kilamanjaro!! We also had the possibility to meet Christine Wallner and her daughter the founders of this project, they are really great!!Real woman power! Magda, Edward an Adam Thanks for another great Tanzania experience!! Till next time!!
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best safari in Tanzania
First of all, Thank you Magda, Melek and team!
We went to Tanzania for our honeymoon. First a week of safari in world greatest wildlife parks and later on to Zanzibar. We were picked up at Kilimanjaro airport in the evening and went to our first lodge. Quite relaxed and the day after we had some time to see something of Arusha and we met our guide. He was GREAT! Along the week of safari you get to know each other and he knew so much about wildlife, Masai and Tanzania. We had great and interesting conversations. We saw Tanzania's greatest and most famous parks and wildlife in the most beautiful settings. We slept in the parks and during the nights you could hear the lions and hyaena's roaring and in the morning we woke up looking into big buffalo eye's. After a week of amazing sights and experiences we went off to Zanzibar, all arranged by flash safaris for a week of diving and relaxing! Magda found us s great spot with our private beach, dining in a treehouse or at the beach. We had a wonderful time in Tanzania with so many experiences. All this Thanks to the team of flash safaris.
Thanks again!
Harmen en Willemijn
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best experience with memories of a lifetime
We went as a family on safari with Flash Safaris in June 2014. Two of us had been on safari before and for the others it was their first time. Tanzania had our preference, since this is THE land of the famous Serengeti and the Ngorogoro Crater. In our opinion a must see! We have send out requests to several safari operators, but Flash Safaris was the one that made us feel the comfortable partner to book with. They were able to answer our questions/requests in a good, adequate and efficient way. Not that we had that many ‘demands’, but since it is a not an everyday experience you want to have reassurance.
Once in Tanzania, the owner (Edward) himself awaited us at the airport. The next day Edward took us into Arusha town. This was a nice surprise and not something we had expected, but an absolute pleasant experience. Being with the comforting and always smiling Edward, we felt in good hands! He also took us to a restaurant where we ate some very tasty meat. Don't know the name anymore, but 'njiamo tjomo' or something. Try it!
The safari itself was truly an amazing experience. Rajab was our guide, we met him the day before already. He is a very knowledgeable guide and we were impressed by his driving skills and finding the way in the parks; he must have been driving the area for many years already. We did not see many other vehicles in the park, which made it even more special. Flash Safaris had selected mostly tented lodges which were all an amazing experience. Job well done Flash! One night we even had elephants next to the tent! And the food we got was delicious.
When we arrived in Arusha we were welcomed by Magda, the other owner of Flash Safaris. She is from the Netherlands, but lives in Tanzania already for many years and also has an extensive knowledge of organizing safaris. The whole team of Flash Safaris gave us the feeling that they really cared about us and truly organized a safari of a lifetime (beyond expectation I must say). They really know what they are doing and we appreciated their honest feedback on our queries. All in all a wonderful experience and would definitely recommend Flash Safaris to others!
We hope to return to Tanzania one day. Edward and Magda are the best!
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Warm and personal; perfect match with with Tanzania
Whow, this was good! Not only in terms of the things you get to see, the atmosphere really was the best. Because of the personal and also "small" way Flash operates, you get the feeling you are their queen for the time you are visiting. Not by fancy accommodation parse, but mostly because of the way you are able to communicate and merge into their own way of living and friendships. Magda opens her network (both business and personal) for you to provide the best of the best. When planning must be adjusted, due to whatever circumstance, alternatives are presented and discussed; transparent and honest.
We will most definitely come back and really recommend Flash to anyone who wants to see and feel the real stuff!
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
awesome roadtrip northern Tanzania
We have great memories of our roadtrip with Flash Safaris. Our guide, Roger, was very profesional and made us feel very welcome and comfortable. Tanzania is impressive! The landscapes, the animals, nothing like I'd ever seen before. I must be honoust I was nervous traveling to Africa for the first time and I didn't know what to expect. It is kind of a culture shock when you travel from Europe to Africa for the first time. But Flash Safaris thought about everything so we got to know the country and the culture 'step by step'. I loved it and I can recommend anyone in good health and flexibility in mind and spirit to go there!
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful Safari-Trip!
After more than 20 years back in Africa on a Safari-trip! My wife, our two teenaged sons and I could spend 12 days in Tanzania and Zanzibar. We had a six days Safari in four different parks (Tarangire, Manyara, Ndutu/Serengeti and Ngorongoro) Everything was very well organised by Magda and Richard from Flash Safaris for a really fair prize! The lodges were all excellent and located at wonderful spots! Melek, our driver/guide, was a friendly and experienced man, who looked carefully after us. He was a good driver, who didn't speed or rush, just that we would see the Big Five! To every question he knew an interesting answer and his knowledge about the country Tanzania and its wildlife was astonishing! After this adventure (we will never forget!), we relaxed in an exquisite place called Ocean Paradise in Zanzibar.
For the whole family it was a great journey and we thank the Flash-Safaris-Team for the perfect organisation!
This agency really gets 5 stars!!!
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great service, excellent organisation and once in a lifetime experience!
We really enjoyed our safari trip with Flash Safaris to Serengeti, Ngorogoro, Tarengire and Arusha National Park. We spoke with Magda about our wishes and she gave us great advice about what parks to see. We even did a balloon safari over the Serengeti. Our guide was a former wildlife preservator from Serengeti and knew all the right spots to see animals (i.e. leopards; lions etc.) We had an amazing time and can recommend Flash Safaris to everyone!
NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
"Out of Africa" revisited
We have had from an impressive visit to the beautiful nature of Tanzania with Flash Safaris .We had a busy program of 5 gamereserves (Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Arusha, Tarangire and Lake Manyara) and we enjoyed every minute of it ! Especially our guide Adam , who has 'eagle' eyes for spotting animals and can tell a lot more about animals and nature then you can imagine, now we know the diffrence between male and female girafshit ;-). And Adam doesnot go crazy like other, driving like madmen after the big 5. We saw them all too without racing !Ending in Zanzibar is fine but also a cultureshock, coming from nature into this touristic area, but nice to relax for a few days after a gametour. You must be a beachlover to stay longer on Zanzibar.
We took the ferry to Dar es Salaam and stayed there for a night in Tanzenite towers (good hotel in the city centre with a 24 hrs. airporttaxiservice) and flew back next day to the Netherlands. |Dar is interesting for a day and to see how fastgrowing this city is. But not a city to visit for more then one day.
More important: we were very satisfied about how Magda and Edward from Flash Safaris organised it al. Came with a good proposal , listened to our personal interests and translated that in our tripproposal and even arranged a desired visit to an hospital.
Tented lodging is a very good way to stay in the reserves and the food is ok and the people very nice.
For dutch travellers: take care that distance doesnot count in Tanzania and you sit quite some time in the jeep, but with water and food on board it is really good (Picknicking with monkeys on your side). We loved our trip to Tanzania and will certainly book our next goal (Climbing \Kilimanjaro) with Flas Safaris.