Sunny Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 100-250 employees (Founded in 1982)
- Member Of:
- TATO & TTB
- Tour Types:
- Customizable private tours and fixed group tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $240 to $1,460 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Laurent | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An incredible experience!
Sunny Safari offers outstanding service. From our very first emails, Jessica answered all of our many questions diligently, precisely and very patiently. We already had a precise itinerary we wanted to follow and they were completely open to modify their usual route.
As for our guide, Mr David Buyamba, he had it all: kind, patient, polite, hard-working, with eyes like a hawk and a sixth sense allowing him to spot all the species on your list. He was particularly good at relying on his own senses - and not on the radio - to find animals, thus giving us many one-on-one moments with our favourite animals. For instance, the first time we saw lions - two brothers in their prime - we were alone with them for at least 20 minutes, giving us all the time in the world to take pictures and observe. We also had a very special encounter with a cheetah and her two cubs eating a gazelle and once again, thanks to David’s eyes, we managed to be alone for perhaps more than an hour.
David was a true encyclopedia, even considering our pre-existing knowledge of Tanzania’s fauna, and his love for all wildlife was inspiring. He managed to be very discreet, yet always there when we needed him. He also taught us the basics of Swahili and made very interesting observations on the cultures of Tanzania.
The car itself was in very good condition and we did not have a single incident. It was very clean and David drove very carefully.
We also appreciated the fact that David picked us up when we arrived in Arusha and took us to our hotel, just like he did at the end of our trip. Sunny Safari works really hard to make your trip as comfortable as it can be. All in all, all of our high expectations were all met. Sunny Safaris did all they could to make our trip a once-in-a-lifetime experience and they deserve a perfect score on all grounds.
Email Adrian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Outstanding driver guide that made our experience amazing
Greta experience with Sunny Safaris from the booking through to the outstanding driver guide who took us on our trip. He was very knowledgable about the area and all the animals we saw. More than happy to recommend this company to anyone going on safari in Tanzania.
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Email Oscar Ibañez | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
professional , close and trusted
Hello, from the very begening, the comunication was very eficient, I was trying to organise the safari from Europe for my family, we have made many diferent proposals and we had always a quick and profesional answer. We are 4 in the family, including my 2 sons, 9 and 13 years old, my wife and me. The whole Safari starting from the negotiation of the different options, the reception in Arusha, the guide, the route, all was really fantastic. The guide was a clever and profesional guy, showing us the country, natural life, culture and much more much better and depper tan expected. My family was always safe and happy. All locations were incredible, offering different prespectives and aproaches but all of them in very high level of price-quality balance. I can not remenber nothing negative of the whole Safari, appart of the dust of the tanzanian offroad routes jajajaj!
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Email Marlene | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
An experience of a lifetime!
Our week long safari experience of Tanzania was beyond my wildest dreams! Knowing that we were going there in the dry season, we weren't sure if this was a good time to view the animals, since many were gone on their migration. We hit the jackpot! We saw everything, many times, from lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, and zebras to hyenas, ostriches, and gnus. This was due to our excellent driver/guide, Baltazary John or BJ as we liked to call him. BJ was knowledgeable of the terrain as well as the animals and birds and shared that information with us all day long. He made sure we were up and out of our lodges/tents early in the morning and kept going until late in the afternoon so that we didn't miss a thing. We were always where the action was. Our accommodations were clean and comfortable if not downright beautiful. For those of you traveling Tanzania by 4x4 and not by air, don't forget to ask about the African massage. How I miss it!
HU
Email Julianna and Joseph | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A Perfect Safari
We took part on an 8-day safari programme in Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti and Manyara National Parks. It was a well-organized programme with excellent hotels and fine meals. Our guide and driver paid great attention to our wishes, so we could see lots of animals and shoot nice photos and videos. A huge amount of information was provided about the fauna and flora, about the country and about everyday life in Tanzania. Perfect programme, fantastic guide - an unforgettable experieence.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Superb!
We have just returned from our honeymoon, which was all done privately through Sunny Safaris... We've had such an amazing time: we were thrilled by all of the wildlife that we saw, our driver-guide was brilliant, and the hotels were fantastic. The ease with which a package was created for us was perfect, and we were delighted with the results! Many, many thanks Sunny Safaris - it really was the holiday of a lifetime!
Email Nick and Andrea | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Perfect safari to start off our honeymoon
Sunny Safaris did an absolutely fantastic job of arranging, personalising, and running our 5 day safari from start to finish. From initial email contact Masha arranged a great itinerary for us to fit perfectly with what we had asked for. He was always quick to reply and happy to answer any questions. Upon arrival we were picked up and transferred to a hotel in Arusha for the night despite not getting through passport control etc until 3am (minus one suitcase which hadn't arrived). The next morning we were picked up by Shaban, our safari guide for the next 5 days. He quickly sorted out getting some forms to the office to arrange getting our lost suitcase back and then we set off for 5 days of amazing safari through Tarangire national park, the Serengeti, and Ngorongoro crater. Masha arranged getting our lost suitcase back to us within a day and Shaban was brilliant as our guide for the whole 5 days. He found all of the animals we really wanted to see many times over, including a truly spectacular moment of being able to watch a successful cheetah hunt. As well as being an excellent safari guide, Shaban was really great fun to have around in the evening and eat dinner with-even helping me to learn little bits and pieces of Swahili. All of the accommodations picked for us were great as well! So a big thank you to everyone at sunny safaris for helping make such an amazing trip for our honeymoon.
Email Amy B | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Once in a Lifetime
We had a fabulous, once in a lifetime experience with Sunny Safaris.
Firstly, I found this company by doing extensive research on a few websites, including the Tripadvisor forum, and saw that it came highly recommended. I then emailed them, and Jessica, who I was in contact with throughout the process, was very prompt and helpful with her email replies.
We went for a 5 night/6 day budget safari. This was $1205 per person (pretty standard for a budget Tanzania safari), and this included camping and pretty much everything else (although only 1 litre of water each per day, so worth taking your own). We half paid via credit card as a deposit and the rest in the office before we set off. This was quick and easy, and it was nice to meet Jessica in person.
We were picked up from our hotel in Arusha by our driver (Peter) and our chef (Damien). I cannot express how excellent both Peter and Damien were in making our safari so memorable.
Peter and Damien made what was already a fantastic trip an amazing and incredible experience. We will not only remember the great things we saw on safari, but also have great memories of Peter and Damien. We could not have had two better people with us!
Peter's knowledge of the national parks (Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara), animals, as well as his ability to spot the animals, was brilliant, and if it wasn't for him we would have missed out on so much. Alongside this, he is one of the kindest, friendliest and most good humoured people we have ever met.
Damien's food was brilliant. We do not know how he managed to cook such tasty and varied food at the camp sites! He was also so very friendly and always there to help if we needed anything.
So, like I said before, both Peter and Damien made our safari even better and Sunny Safaris are lucky to have such wonderful people working for them.
So overall, I would not hesitate to use Sunny Safaris again and would recommend them to anyone.
Email Matthias | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great Experience!
We are staying in Malawi and decided to do a safari-trip to northern Tanzania end of June. After consulting some friends in Arusha, doing some internet-research and reading through plenty of reviews, we came up with a short-list of some 5 safari-operators. After some Q&A sessions via email and fine-tuning our itinerary, we chose Sunny Safaris, because of the generally positive tune of reviews (trip-advisor & safaribookings.com), and the best offer (in terms of value for money). And what can I say: we did not regret anything and had a wonderful safari experience. We are a family with 2 adults and two kids (7 & 10 years of age), with quite some safari experience in the region, including Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and of course Malawi. For this trip we went out for six-days/five-nights, with three nights at Serengeti (Katikati Tented Camp) and two around Ngorongoro. We focused on Serengeti, with a one-day descent to Ngorongoro, and Lake Manyara on the way. We left out Tarangire and other parks. That worked perfectly well. Particularly the tented camp in Serengeti was a great experience. But also the wildlife: We saw plenty of animals, with the intended focus on predators, including cheetahs, which we do not have in Malawi. Every box has been ticked. We saw lions, leopards, and of course cheetahs - also on the hunt, and even making a kill. Great experience. Our guide cum driver Abdul did a great job and the whole management of the trip by Jessica from Sunny Safaris was perfect, highly professional and absolutely recommendable. The whole safari was mind-blowing and will remain a great memory to the whole family; it exceeded our expectations.
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Email Stephanie | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable 4-day Safari-experience with the best guide Paul
We are a group of 6 young people that booked a 4-day Safari-trip with Sunny Safaris mid-July, and we have been more than pleased by what was offered by Sunny Safaris. This is perhaps not in the least attributable to having had an amazingly enthusiastic Maasai-guide named Paul. Accomodation was perfect, on calm and unique places, and so was the food, made by our cook Chaz. We visited Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater and especially enjoyed our early-day gamedrives thanks to the dense schedule and all the efforts of Paul and Chaz :-)
Our safari was made up of an ideal mix of adventure, fun and enthusiasm and we would recommend this trip to everyone!