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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 Chris | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfectly organized safari
Booked our fly-in safari from Zanzibar into Serengeti with Uhuru Travel. They provided a fast and very nice service, answering to all requests within minutes. Everything was organized and worked perfectly-from pick up at our Zanzibar hotel until final drop off there. And everybody was very determined to provide an unforgettable experience. Excellent service, thank you and see you next time !
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Email Merike | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Experience of a lifetime!
We booked a 3-day luxury Serengeti experience with Uhuru, and it could have not been more perfect! Everything was not only as agreed, but way better! Special thanks goes to Abdallah, who had the patience to sort everything out after I had lost my phone for a day, to Pandu the taxi driver who was so punctual and nice, and of course to Joseph who drove us around in Serengeti for 3 days, telling countless stories about animals and their behavior, and who is definitely one of the best drivers in the world! :o)
We had a magical experience of a lifetime!
P.S. Our accommodation in Serengeti Melia was amazing, the views from our balcony breathtaking!
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Email Zaida and Carlos | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best experience of our trip!
Margaret helped us find and organize all the details of our two-day safari to Selous in September 2019. The plane travel, the hotels and even our guide for the safari were perfect, they took care of the details to the maximum.
The best experience of our trip, thank you very much to Margaret for helping us to have everything on time, even with the last minute contingencies!
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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.
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 Magnus Midander | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
5 day safari became 4 days...
We pre-booked a 5 day safari in November 2019 with Uhuru and Mr Abdallah. Good reviews on Tripadvisar and SafariBookings.com together with a fair pricing made us choose this company.
This review is only for the company of Uhuru Travel & Tours Ltd and the owner Mr Abdallah and not for the safari and our guide Zabron which were both great!
We prepaid 60% of $4400 in November and the rest was supposed to be paid 10 days prior safari start. When trying to pay the rest (40% of $4400) the link sent by Mr Abdallah didn't work. I quickly responded and two days later I got a new link which worked and now 100% of the safari was paid. We had a conversation on WhatsApp and Mr Abdallah responded fairly quick that everything was fine and that we should enjoy our safari. When we asked for a pickup time the day before departure he responded "Pick up can be 0730am or 0800am or 0900am."
We waited. At 0747am we sent a message that we were ready for take off and Mr Abdallah responded: "My Opertion manager will arrive there in time." He did not.
5 minutes later he replied: "We have a small problem with credit card payments... please pay $1300 for park fees". " We have cash flow problems".
We responded that we already paid $4400 and did not trust him on paying an extra $1300.
3 hrs later a van came and picked us up and drove us to Mr Abdallahs hotel McEllys in Arusha were we had lunch on his account. That's when we realized that there won't be a 5 day safari. Several hours in the hotel restaurant and no response from Mr Abdallah on WhatsApp made us choose to stay one night at the hotel on his account. He now promised through his local manager Mr Roy to arrange a 4 day safari starting at 10am tomorrow.
Even after we started our now 4 day long safari Mr Abdallah did not communicate with us and we demanded to have some sort of compensation after missing an entire day of safari. It ended up with an upgrade to Acacia Luxury tent worth about $500 but this was not near our expectations of a compensation.
Please be aware of Uhuru Travels & Tours Ltd since their owner Mr Abdallah is not trustworthy nor reliable.
Since Mr Abdallah is replying on many reviews on both Tripadvisor and SafariBookings.com I hope yo understand that we had a horrible experience with him and his company regardless of what he replies.
Our safari ended well with a good view of the big 5 and many many more animals. Our driver and guide Mr Zabron was super!
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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 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 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 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.