It Started in Africa
- Located In:
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- IATA, TATO & TALA
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $550 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Email Sally | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Choose this company if you want an amazing trip!
My daughter and I have just spent a week visiting 3 of Tanzania's national parks. We found the company helpful when organising the itinerary and the trip itself was well organised. The company were very accomodating - even looking after a pack that was not needed for this part of our trip and meeting us at the airport at the end of our trip to hand it back. Our driver was very well informed and good company.
LB
Great trip!
My boyfriend and I booked with "It started in Africa" after reading their reviews, but also because they were extremely responsive as we asked lots of questions and changed our mind a few times about where we wanted to go and how long we wanted to stay. Each time, they gave us very detailed information and were quite patient. Once in country, the same type of service continued. Everything was very well-organized and planned. The flamencos in Ngorongoro were stunning, and so was the whole experience! I highly recommend this company. They're also a small local company so I'm glad to have booked with them!
CH
Email Kai | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Trip
We had an excellent trip in Tanzania and everything was very smooth during our safari tour. One of the main reason is that we had Cosma as our private guide. He was irreproachable from the first day to the last. He is very polite, neat and have really good skill for driving whereas the driver that took us to the Masai Village on the last day. That one was terrible and had an unsafe driving. Anyway, we were very glad to have Cosmas during our trip, he really knows his stuff and has really good eyesight to hunt ;). He is able to speak french and even some chinese after staying with us awhile ;). Your team should very cherish him because we really think that he can bring up a high value in your company and make the different !
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Email Sam Dutton | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great attention to details
We loved our whole customer experience from itinerary design, to the awesome welcome pack we received at home which put as all excited about this trip. The safari itself was flawless and I can only say great things about this company and also about Tanzania which is the most beautiful country I've ever been to.
DE
Email Anja | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The greatest holiday in our live!
We made a 7-days-Safari to Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Lake Manyara and Lake Easy and after that we flied to Stonetown. We had there a very interesting city guide. On the next day we made a spicestour and drove to your hotel at Pongwe Beach.
Our trip was really very great. The staff from It Started in Africa is very helpful all time long and very fast in reacting to your mails. the staff went above and beyond. They arranged all greatful. We would book again at any time your Safari with It Started in Africa. Our guide Philip knew very well about animals and trees and always drove us to where what was going on. The tip for the hotel on Zanzibar was 100 % right for us.
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Email Joe and Debbie | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The Crown Jewel Of Our Anniversary and Vacation of a Lifetime!
Our safari with It Started in Africa was the trip of a lifetime! A colleague recommended It Started in Africa and guaranteed that we would be very pleased. From our first contact, through the planning and then, from our arrival in Dar es Salaam through our last day in Arusha, everything went perfectly! Our trip was totally worry-free. It Started In Africa provided our in-country flights, all ground transportation, food and lodging.
The three-day safari provided us memories that will last our lifetime. Each day was a totally different and unique experience and each day topped the next. The first day we saw more than 100 elephants in Taranglre National Park. The second day, Ngorongoro Crater was one of the most magnificent things I have ever seen and down inside the crater was like being in the middle of a zoo without any fences. Animals were everywhere!! Damien, our tour guide, stayed with us all three days and he was a fantastic. I mentioned to him that my hope was to see Africa’s Top Five, especially, the black rhino. He seemed to know exactly where to go to find the animals and we saw four of the top five (including a black rhino). Afterwards, Damien was humble enough to say that it was all luck. The third day hunting with a bush tribe was just as unforgettable. Watching a movie 30 years ago called, "The God's Must Be Crazy" was the first time I heard about nomadic bush people who speak a "tick" language. To meet, hunt, sit and eat with this nomadic tribe of hunters and gatherers who actually speak this" tick" language was like traveling back into time.
Everyone that I am in contact with on social media now knows about “It Started In Africa." We are already planning our next trip to Tanzania and we will definitely use them again when we bring our grandchildren to Africa for their first safari next summer. We really did received top-flight professional service. Choosing It Started In Africa proved to be a great decision. Thanks!
TR
Email Hale | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
great service great guidance excellent experience
Firstly the people at "It Started in Africa" Office is amazingly helpful and good at understanding your needs. The people we met in Tanzania was also terrific. Especially our guide "Anthony Sillo" was expert at what he was doing, we kind and full of knowladge about the area and the animals. If you have a chance to ask for the guide definetly I recommend him. We went for 6 days(2,5 days in Serengeti) but if you have time try to spend more time at amazing Serengeti.
PT
Email João Mateus | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Following the migration
Everything went very well during our time in Tanzania, since the organization of the whole trip runned smoothly, we enjoyed the tented camps, and we were quite lucky on our game drives.
Our guide Deogratius was not only a great guide, but also at all times a very nice company!
IN
Email Dr Saurendra nath Mitra | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
You made our vacation a dream come true
Thanks to one and all in It Started in Africa for such an excellent service to make our Kenya tour so successful and enjoyable.everything went as planned,you kept all our werid wishes, and your drivers cum guides Carlos and Alex was just fantastic because of their courtesy,knowledge of wildlife and their always hacunamatata attitude.We just want to go back when ever possible -D this may be a combined Tanzania-Kenya tour.
IT
Email Manuela D. | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An amazing experience with It Started in Africa
The safari in Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro was amazing, like the driver and also the chef.
We saw all 5 big, wonderful places and landscapes. The driver was really nice, he told us a lot information about animals, he was very friendly and made us feel at home. And also we ate very well.
So thank you! The most exciting thing was to sleep in a tent in the Serengeti and hear the animals during the night.