Wild Things Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 50-100 employees (Founded in 2001)
- Member Of:
- Tanzania Association of Tour Operators
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $400 to $1,850 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Email Ian Barnaby | 50-65 years of age
Fabulous guides, porters and chefs for Kilimanjaro Northern Circuit.
Nothing was too much trouble for Alex and his team of guides, porters and chefs. A truly memorable experience whilst climbing Kilis Norther Circuit.
Great to meet Mary too, who travelled all the way from Dar Es Salaam to meet us on our last day and also came out with us for our celebratory meal in Moshi.
I would thoroughly recommend this super professional team. Thank you
Email Carina | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A wonderful experience that I would recommend to anyone if they are lucky enough to do it.
Excellent communication with organising the holiday and tour. And excellent communication with Wildthing safari's whilst in Tanzania. We received a fantastic service from Wildthing's safari and our guide Mansoor was just incredible. Mansoor was so knowledgable, patient and kind and showed us Tanzania in a wonderful way. I will never be able to thank him enough. Our trip was made even better as Mansoor enabled us to see a wild leopard, wild dogs, lions, birds and lots of other animals. Our trip to Tanzania and Zanzibar lived up and over our expectations and we feel so grateful to have been able to have had this experience and we just felt that our trip was perfect!
Email Julian Sore | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Wild Things Safaris support Hampshire Scouts
Where do we start with this? 4 years ago, some leaders from Hampshire Scouts had a mad idea to take a massive group of Scouts to Tanzania. We have worked with Wild Things on smaller groups, but scaling up to over 100 was going to be fun.
We can proudly say that Wild Things proved that they can cover everything from couples, up to groups of 110 Scouts. We had 6 different teams in Tanzania for over 4 weeks, and during this time, Wild Things deployed 19 vehicles and over 40 staff in drivers, cooks, project managers etc.
We had a complex program, with teams undertaking different activities at different times, and in different locations, hundreds of miles apart. We had challenges thrown at the scouting program, resorting in changes to the program, but Wild Things handled all of this without any fuss or issues.
All 110 us went on 5 different safaris in Mikumi National Park. Amazingly, all teams saw big cats, and had an amazing time.
A massive thank you to Roy, Zoe, Woody and all of the team at Wild Things. Hopefully, we will do it all again in 2020!!!
Jools
Julian Sore
Tanzania 2017 Expedition Leader
Hampshire County Scouts
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Email Stina nilsson | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing adventure, magical food!
We were four friends who was booked on a safari through wild things safari and we would not change a thing!
A girl from the Office met us at our first hotel i Dar se Salaam and went throug the basics. The following day we were picked up by our guide and went on an amazing adventure! He had knowledge about everything we asked about and more!
Not to forget- our chef! He cooked us the best food we had in a long time!!
We lived in tents right in the bush. Really nervwrecking but also really cool!
Right we would actually have wanted to change a thing, next time we'll stay more than Five days!
NL
Email Ben | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Truly tailor made
After booking my first safari back in 2009 I have been coming back to Wild Things ever since. From the start they have been a great help in realizing my big and/or small - off the beaten path - wishes. I have been very impressed with the high professional standard set from when I first communicated with the office in Dar-Es-Salaam all the way through to the end of a very successful southern circuit safari along some of the most beautiful sights of Tanzania. The staff are all very enthusiastic and knowledgeable and I felt they really wanted to share with me their passion for nature, wildlife and the country itself. On this specific safari I had prepared myself for rice and beans along the ride but I couldn't have been more wrong. I have enjoyed some of the best chips in quite literately the middle of nowhere and the meals served at HondoHondo on the edge of the Udzungwa Forest were, I might say, even better than the ones served in one of the more 'posh' hotels on Zanzibar.
After that first and very successful undertaking in 2009 I decided to come back to Tanzania in 2011. Again I consulted Wild Things to set me up for an hiking trip to the East Usumbara Mountains, which is regarded as one of the biodiversity hot-spots of the world. From the Amani Forest Lodge where I was set up I explored some of the most fascinating endemic species (birds, chameleons, plants) in this intriguing and ancient forest. The accommodations and food were right on par with what I experienced two years earlier.
Fueled by all this tramping around in the Eastern Arc I set my mind to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Unfortunately I was only able to realize this feat the next year. By this time it was obvious that I would choose Wild Things as my safari company. With very little effort I was able to join a group planning on climbing the Rongai Route. Pick-ups, rental-gear and briefing were all done in a timely fashion and so the next day we set out to climb kili. The guides were experienced and adept and the porters proved to be reliable. Together they took the 5 in our group up to the top and back all in one piece.
All in all I'm very pleased with the services provided by Wild Things Safaris and I am looking forward to another great trip to Tanzania in the near future.
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Friendly, totally tailored to us and what we wanted, felt like royalty, absolutely fantastic.
Wildthings were fantastic; from the moment we started planning the trip, where they were extremely helpful and spent and enormous amount of time with us helping us plan, rethink and tailor our trip to ours needs with recommendations and alternatives that made sure we got as much as we could out of our budget.
The trip was flawlessly executed, the first year we went we travelled to the southern parks, Mikumi and Ruaha and then on to their tented camp in the Udzungua mountains. We had a wonderful experience, the accommodation was excellent, the days spent on safari fantastic. Without a doubt the best thing about the trip were the guide and cook, fantastically friendly and charming people who did their very best to make our trip unforgettable.
It was so good we went back for our honeymoon the following year.
Email Frances | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
About Wild Things Safaris
We were very impressed by the smooth booking arrangements and the advice given about options, taking into account our interest in birds as well as game. On this tour (our second) we went to Mikumi and HondoHondo. The accommodation in ensuite luxury tents was superb. Delicious food was locally sourced and the service friendly. We were really pleased to see local people employed and selling their produce to Wild Things. The Guides were all expert in the flora and fauna of the region spotting amazing animals, birds, wild flowers and answering questions expertly. Very impressesd by the whole team. Hope to return.
Email Simon and Jenny | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
We have done two safaris with Wild Things in the north and south and enjoyed them both
Wild Things responds to emails very quickly with suggest itineraries and are happy to let you change and procrastinate as muh as you like to design the best trip. We found the service of their staff very good, and the same of the lodges they recommended. We first did a safari on the popular northern circuit, and saw everything we wanted - incliding a lion kill, so the 2nd trip we went to the the south where we also, somewhat surprisingly, saw almost as much, and several species we didn't see up north.