Earthlife Expeditions
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2011)
- Member Of:
- AMREF, TTGA & TLTO
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $175 to $650 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Ryan Moses | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Best tour operator in all of Tanzania
Deo & his crew are one of the most well respected tour providers in all of Africa. What makes them stand out so much from others is the quality of the guides. The guides you use for your trip greatly determine how enjoyable a time you have and they have the best. I recommend this company to any and every person considering going to Africa. Use them and you will not be disappointed!
Email Arthursmomma | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Earthlife Expeditions is an All-Around Supurb Experience
I wanted to tell people about our experience with Earthlife Expeditions out of Arusha. We are on our last day of a 15-day trip with this company. I would recommend them highly! We, too, found them here on Safari Bookings and they seemed too good to believe. When we tried to check references, there were only a few notes on Trip Advisor. We emailed a previous customer and he replied that, Yes, they were indeed legit. So we wired money and crossed our fingers. (We did, however, Video Skype with Deo and Catherine Haule, the owners of Earthlife Expeditions, and saw that they were real people.). Deo offered to be our personal guide, he only guides safaris 2 times a year; he works in the office of his company the rest of the time. He has 10 Toyota Land Cruisers, in good running order. He employs many experienced safari guide/drivers. We were in the company of another couple at a tented camp in the Serengeti that was there with another Earthlife guide; they were happy as well. Deo is an outstanding safari guide, driver, and human being. Our accommodations were excellent, with a mixture of classy resorts and tented bush camps. He was always prompt, personable, and a wealth of knowledge about African animals from his 15 years of guiding experience. After our 8 fun-filled days of wildlife viewing in Lake Manyara, Ndutu, Serengeti, & Ngorongoro Crater, we spent time at 4 tribal villages, including the Hadzbe and Maasais. Deo and Catherine booked our inter-country flight to Zanzibar, where we are spending the last 6 days.
I highly recommend this company. For the value and the experience of working with an honest, hard-working newer company. Feel free to contact me if you have further concerns or questions.
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Email Cornel Posea | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great time in Tanzania
I work in tourism in Romania and I'm use with different kind of touristic program. What i done with Deo it was more that a tour it was a real experience. He is a wonderful manager, guide and friend in the same time. He are very concern to have a good time, to be in safe and to see as much us possible from wild life. He have a lot of knowledge about all the area and also about the animals. I rely recommend him and his company for a safe and nice tour.
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Email nina wolff from germany | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
our safari guide erasto give us the best time in our life. long live leopard pilipilihoho!
the bosses Deo and his wife Cathy were really professional and we felt really welcomed. our 4 days in seregenti and ngorogoro crater are unforgettable! asante sana. camp safari was the best. our guide erasto has the best eyes in hole tansania. without binoculars! elephants at campground. hyanes laughing at night. lions in the sun. leopard chilling in an akazia tree. i love that landrover car! best pilau chakula dinner. standing in the middle of 20 giraffs. serengeti is a must! the tour was really individual and erasto did everything we 3 wanted! thank you so much for our best nature time in our life!
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Email Cindy Baker | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime, lets do it again!
From our very first communications, the initial itinerary for our safari vacation, we had a good feeling about Earthlife Expeditions. Now that we have returned from the trip, we feel even better about choosing them!
One of our reasons for choosing Earthlife was we wanted the services of a local Tanzanian company who would know the area, support the local people and economy. So like many others seem to have done, we went with our "gut feeling" and chose a small company with few reviews but seemingly good references. This paid off in spades.
Deo and Catherine are professional, warm, and very accommodating. The details of our trip were planned perfectly, applying both our requests and Deo's terrific suggestions. Each and every place we stayed I wished we could stay longer. The tented camps are the place to be!
Our guide was outstanding. I am still amazed at his ability to navigate the "roads" in the parks, have a conversation about food, and spot an animal in a far off shadow all at the same time! He was incredibly knowledgable about both the wildlife, and the area. There is nothing we didn't see, and we learned quite a lot.
It was surprising how disappointing we felt when we had to leave him as we went on to Zanzibar. Upon our return to the mainland on our last day, we were then ridiculously excited when he ended up being the one to pick us up at the airport an on to our last days events.
Everyone at Earthlife works very hard to make their clients trip the trip of a lifetime. There service is nothing short of outstanding. Now I hope to make that once in a lifetime trip, a second time! Maybe someday.
Without reservations, I highly recommend this company for anyone going on a safari adventure.
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great company, excellent value
They did a great job from responding to our initial inquiries to making sure that everything went well after the safari. Deo and Catherine are friendly and informative, and we knew from the start that we were in good hands. Our guide, Aggrey, really made the difference for us while on safari, and not just because he has the sharpest eyes around (we saw a giant pangolin!) -- he's enthusiastic about animal-watching, and this flavored our whole experience. I've been on lots of safaris with other operators and bored driver/guides. Earthlife was easily the best experience I've had in over 25 years in and around Africa.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A comprehensive, thoroughly enjoyable adventure through 4 national parks of Tanzania.
Earth Life Expeditions provided a comprehensive, detailed itererary within 24 hours of request including accommodations, timing and lengths of game drives and contact information for references. Any questions/clarifications were promptly addressed. Our guide was exceptional with great knowledge about every animal, big and small and a terrific ability to spot animals at great distances. Further, he was polite with a good sense of humor and maintained a clean vehicle. Accommodations were quite satisfactory. The Owner, Deo, provided a comprehensive overview of our Safari the first morning which was very helpful and a debrief on the last day so as to improve future safaris. We highly recommend Earth Life Expeditions.
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Email Stephen K | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Absolutely amazing. Saw things that you usually only see on TV.
Our guide Aggrey, better known as "Eagle Eyes" made our trip. He showed us the big five plus many other animals. We had the opportunity to witness events that are only seen on TV. Our accommodations far exceeded what we thought we would have. I would definitely recommend Earthlife Expeditions to anyone going to Tanzania for safari. They are a local company so your money will stay and help the locals of Tanzania. Can not wait to go back and do it again.
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Email Wendy | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great adventures come with small, local safari tours!
Selecting a small, local safari company was a goal of ours but nerve racking at the same time. Effort was made to obtain references from others that had gone before us. Earthlife's itinerary from the get go was exactly what we wanted. They catered to our desires, which was important given that this was a trip of a lifetime for my family. We traveled with our 2 young daughters (13 and 10). My only recommendation would be continued dialogue up to the day of your journey. We were surprised when our guide wasn't the person that Earthlife had identified early on. That being said, the guide who led us through this adventure (Aggrey) was amazing! We couldn't have asked for a better fit for our family. He taught us so much about animal behavior and the Tanzanian culture. I would highly recommend Aggrey.
Email Tom | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great service, great organisation and above all provided a great experience.
After making our mind up to travel to Tanzania for our honeymoon, I stumbled across Earthlife on safaribookings.com as I was searching for an 8 day safari package with 6 days in Zanzibar. I was immediately grabbed by the competitive price and once I made a few enquiries it was clear that this company offered the best combination of pricing, level of communication, and day-by-day itinerary. There were no hidden costs and they were flexible to any suggestions or alteration to the itinerary (which we didn't require as it looked ideal).
We enjoyed the cultural aspects like the Masai village and the local village tour near lake Manyara. This split up the game drives nicely and gave us a chance to buy a wood carving and painting straight from a villager rather than a more expensive outlet. It was lovely seeing kids playing games, the plantations and the countless friendly faces.
We trusted Deo and Catherine's experience as they have been doing this a long time. Forming there own company in recent years has been a challenge in a competitive market with larger tour operators around but they are successful in offering a client focused experience with a personal touch and constant reassurances throughout the planning/booking stage. We got references from 5 other clients and had no problems wiring the complete payment before travelling to Tanzania. Deo came to meet us before our trip and then again afterwards for a review of our trip. I honestly can't see where they can improve the service - it's impeccable. All our lodge accommodation was great and our guide Gilbert was professional, friendly, relaxed and determined to find and describe every animal he could for us. I thought I knew a lot about the wildlife but learnt so much from Gilbert, particularly about animal behaviour and the birdlife which was spectacular. We saw the big 5 (rhino from a distance) but some great close up encounters with Leopard, Lions, Elephant, Buffalo, and numerous others including a Serval cat which was awesome. the highlight was seeing a mother lion taking her 3 cubs across a river. Jumping across with one in her mouth and then encouraging the others to swim across. The safari got better each day as promised, with more and more action. We still had time to relax by the pool before dinner at the lodges and enjoyed views in each place. I got bitten a bit by flies as expected but my partner and Gilbert were fine and it wouldn't put me off going again. Neither of us got ill and the food/service was great in all accommodation they booked us.
I will recommend Earthlife to anyone and it was obvious they took pride in their personable approach compared to the larger companies which we often saw with their vehicles rammed full with clients and seemingly a few glum faces. We had a guide to ourselves which was perfect as it was our honeymoon. He took packed lunches for us and was excellent at spotting animals. He spotted the first rhino sighting of the day at Ngorongoro in the afternoon and called it through over the radio. Within minutes we had about 20 vehicles beside us! A fabulous once-in-a-lifetime adventure but hopefully one day we can do it all again.