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Soul of East Africa Safaris (Uhuru Travel)
- Located In:
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2007)
- Member Of:
- TATO, ZATO & ZATI
- Tour Types:
- Small & medium group tours (Mid-range & luxury)
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $400 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Blake Diers | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3 years in the making! Worth the wait!
My girlfriend and I visited South Africa 4 years ago and immediately fell in love with the animals on Safari. We started planning another Safari for Tanzania but we couldn't find a Safari that met our budget and expectations. Over the course of three years, I searched and searched and finally found UHURU Travel & Tours. Their travel agents got creative and were able to put together the exact tour we wanted, that was within our budget. Communication was professional and timely and I really felt that they were working with me to make this vacation happen. On Safari we had an incredible guide - Mack. He was friendly, knowledgeable, funny, engaging and an overall delight to spend the week with. Our hotels/tents were clean. The staff at each accommodation was amazing and the food exceeded all expectations. UHURU provided the best vacation possible and I can't thank their staff enough for making a bucket list trip come together flawlessly.
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Email Louisa&David | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Easy communication and perfectly organized safari trip.
We booked a three day/two nights fly-in safari trip for two persons to Ruaha National Park through Uhuru Travel & Tours and can absolutely recommend their services.
From the day of the booking until our departure from Tanzania the communication was very easy and perfect. We requested a proposal, which we then received via email. Thereafter all further communication was via WhatsApp with Margaret of Uhuru Travel & Tours. She was extremely responsive and replied to all questions within hours (including weekend days). Payments were made by credit card in advance - all easy and uncomplicated.
A driver picked us up at our accommodation in Stone Town and dropped us at the airport in Zanzibar. Flights with Coastal (all organized by Uhuru Travel & Tours) via Dar es Salaam to Ruaha were on time and luggage was taken care of at all airports. Upon arrival at the national park we were picked up by a driver and guide from Mdonya Old River Camp and directly taken on a game drive in the national park. Accommodation in the camp was an amazing experience, guide and driver as well as staff in the camp were extremely knowledgeable and very friendly. Food was great. Drop off at the air strip after one last morning game drive and return flight to Dar es Salaam were again well organized and on time.
Mixed feelings about Safari in the rain season (of course our own decision). On the one hand it was amazing to see Ruaha very green; on the other hand very difficult to spot animals, because of bushes and trees and had some rain showers every now and then. Driver and guide still made amazing effort to show us as many animals as possible and we enjoyed every bit of it.
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Email Yuri Awanohara | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Best safari experience!
Everything was perfect on our 9 day trip. We spent 3 nights in Selous, 3 nights in Ruaha, and 2 nights in zanzibar. The transfers were perfect, easy communication, excellent understanding of what we wanted from our trip, great accommodation and food and most importantly, our driver guide who works for Uhuru who took us from Dar to Selous (Nestor) was one of the best guides I have ever met in my extensive worldwide travels. I firmly believe that you will not find a better deal elsewhere for what Uhuru offers. Memorable trip with so many mind blowing moments. Thank you so much!
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Email Ana | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A wonderful experience in the nature - Selous Safari Game
Before going on a family vacation, we contacted Uhuru Travel and other companies to help us with our trip.
As we had never been in Tanzania and we were a group of 13, with 6 children’s, we needed someone to help us with our travels, visits and suggestions.
Having chosen Uhuru was the best decision we could have made, since in addition to everything going as planned, Margaret, the person directly involved with the organization, handled everything with extra sympathy, politeness and good will, realizing our intentions at every moment.
They integrated all my preferences and needs to the itinerary while using their own experience in the field to design a trip of my dreams.
A 5 Star company and specially a 6 star to Margaret that was unstoppable, always trying to give us the best options to our trip!
We would recommend Uhuru Travel to anyone wanting to have a wonderful safari experience in Tanzania!
Also could not forget our guides during the Safari, Yoda and were fantastic!! Great attitude, and very knowledgeable about the animals and behaviour and finding the good spots to see them.
They were unwearying and we could almost with the 'game'!!! ;-)
We just had an amazing time. A trip not to forget!
Ana from Portugal
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Email Andreas swiss | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great safari adventure
Perfect Organisation, very nice and helpful staff. Safari was very good guided and experienced!
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Email Daniel | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing holiday in Mikumi National Park by Uhuru Travel
We spent 3 wonderful day in Mikumi National Park by Uhuru Travel. The driver was very good, friendly and he was always on time. The accommodations which was booked by Uhuru travel were great.
The Mikumi NP was a great experience, we saw many animals elephants, lions, gnus, giraffes, impalas etc. Thank you for it.
Email Nitin | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
a very good safari experience at a reasonable price
It was very good safari. We managed to see all big 5 and all big cats in Serengeti (lions, leopards, Cheetah and serval). Benson was very knowledgeable and experienced and knew where to find animals and big cats. Also, on the first night we stayed in a lodge which was supposed to be tent. Overall it was a very good value for money.
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Email Ants | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
We had with Uhuru Travel on safari in Serengeti and Ngorongo.
We were in safari in Serengeti and Ngorongoro managed by Uhuru Travel. Tour operator has personal touch, replies fast and hired really special people for that business. Especially we are thankful our super guide-driver Meshalu and Lloyd who took care us in Arusha. For multiday safari is very important have durable vehicle, cool head of driver and his knowledge about wildlife. Six star service! Thanks a lot!
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Email Céline | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful experience!
Difficult to describe in a few words this incredible safari. Excellent organisation ...thak you Uhuru Travel agency. We've seen impalas, hippos, zebras, elephants, crocodile, buffalos, king lion and many other animals in the middle of a beautiful nature. Fantastic the location at Bastian Camp.
We asked to modify our tour with final destination Kiberashi instead of Dar...this gave us the opportunity to discover more about this wonderful country (Tanzania) out from touristic circuits.
Really special thanks to our guide, Mr. HENDRICK N MINJALE ...great guide, fantastic driver (cannot imagine how long and in which difficult road conditions he drove), ALWAYS helpful and open to our request. Hendrick, thank you for your fantastic human appoach, we are very grateful.
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Email The Boulton Family | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Outstanding People | Once-in-a-Lifetime Safari Experience
We are a family of four (2 adults, 2 teenagers) with a fair amount of international travel experience. We typically do all of the research, preparation, and leg work ourselves but for this trip chose to entrust everything to Uhuru; they did not disappoint. The professionalism and prompt / regular communication provided by the Uhuru staff was excellent throughout; from our initial exploratory emails to our return home.
We enjoyed a phenomenal, 14-day safari through several game parks in Kenya and Tanzania. At our guide's suggestion we opted for boxed lunches (and sometimes breakfast) to maximize our time in the parks on game drives. Not only did we see the 'Big 5' up close and personal, but we had the rare privilege of seeing a total of 66 different big cats (a family favorite)!
We simply cannot say enough about the quality of our guides / drivers. Their knowledge and local experience was second to none and by day two each felt like an extended member of the family; Asante Sana John and Mechalu!
We would highly recommend Uhuru for a family safari adventure...!
