The BEST TOUR OPERATOR AWARDS
Usambara Trails Expedition
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2008)
- Member Of:
- TTB & TANAPA
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $100 to $600 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Staff is incredibly experienced, friendly, knowledgeable, lighthearted, and creative.
Usambara provided fantastic services over the course of 3 months to our group of 25 college students. They offered travel plans and guides for a variety of day and overnight trips in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Serengeti, Bagamoyo, and Arusha. Safari drivers were incredibly experienced, friendly, knowledgeable, lighthearted, and creative regarding routes and problem solving along the way. Alex and Zacharia were particularly relatable, genuine, and caring.
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Email Georgiana | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Really nice experience in Ruaha and Selous
We had a great experience with Usambara Expeditions. We visited Ruaha National Park and Selous Game Reserve in 5 days. The car was great, safe and comfortable for our group of 5 people.
Yunus, our guide and driver has done such an amazing job with bringing us safe from place to place, being flexible with our requests, showing us a lot of animals in the little time we had. His driving skills are also really good :). There were times when we were looking at the road and it seemed impossible to pass it. However, Yunus always handled it really good.
Moreover, we have been so lucky to have a great cook with us. Alto provided a lot of food and everything was really tasty. More than that, he is really nice to talk to, very fun and outgoing.
Yunus and Alto did a great job together.
The company helped us with buying the ferry tickets from Dar to Zanzibar and they also brought them at the ferry, as we were short on time. Thank you also for that. Also, it was nice to have Zacharia around in the first days.
We had a wonderful safari with our guide Said at Mikumi
- we definitely recommend the guide Said. He made our Safari as excellent as it was.
- better book directly with Usambara instead of Moji which organize the tours with Usambara. We booked it via Moji and didn't get the support which we would have gotten by booking directly with Usambara
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Email Paula | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Beautiful trip!
We had the best safari trip with our guide Mike. He was the best guide you can imagine. We did see a lot of animals and it was a beautiful experience! We went to Mikumi National Park. The banda's were great, the food was good and we had a beautiful view from our banda's. Everything was good arranged and everybody from Usambara Expeditions is so kind and sweet to us and they wanted to make sure we had a lovely time at the park, and we absolutely did!! We really recommend Usambara to everyone!
Thanks Alex for the good and nice service, Mike, thankyou so much for everything and Zacharia thank you also for everything you did for us!
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Email yann | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent first safari in Mikumi
We made our first safari with Usambara Expedition in Mikumi Park
It was a very nice and good time with Mike!
We had everything booked by internet, we were always in touch with the agency, very responsive and very serious: no worries!
They picked us up at the hotel in Dar es Salaam, then headed for Mikumi
Mike was an excellent driver and a very good guide! And we spent 3 lovely days with him
We were staying at the Camp Bastian, a very nice establishment 20 minutes from the park
Everything went very well, we loved this beautiful experience!
I highly recommend!
Thank you Usambara Exp and thank you Mike !!
If in the future, I return to make a safari in Tanzania, I will go back without hesitation by this agency !!
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Email Bogdan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
One day Safari in Mikumi National Park
Very professional agency. Everything was booked via internet/email and the trip was fantastic. Highly recommend Usambara Expeditions.
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Email birgit and lukas | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
wonderful experience
I booked a 5 day safari(mid-range accommodation) to selous and mikumi for myself and my 18year old son. we deliberately opted for the -tiring-version of driving there and back instead of flying because we wanted to see as much of the country as possible.we had the most awesome time, especially thanks to our wonderful driver/guide michael who took such good care, was an excellent and careful driver and tried to listen to what we really wanted-see as many animals as possible but be safe.we succeeded and saw elephants, lions, buffaloes , a leopard, giraffes and zebras, antilopes and impalas, hippos , hyenas , wild dogs, warthogs, wildebeasts and various birds.I can really recommend usambara expeditions.asante sana.
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Email Antonio | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic experience
We spent 3 unforgettable days discovering the uncontaminated and wild nature of the Selous Game Reserve .. an unique experience and organized very well by the Usambara Expedition that entrusted our guardian angel Mike who has accompanied us throughout the experience! I advise you to ask him because he is a kind and trustworthy person! Even in a few days we managed to establish a very good relationship so much that we moved to the greetings! Even ended the safari helped us at Dar es Salaam for some things and solved every problem. Last thing: the day of our wedding anniversary accompanied us to the nearby village and offered us to drink to celebrate! A wonderful experience! Great job Mike!
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Email Serkan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Mikumi trip
We spent 3 unforgettable days. Everything about our trip to Mikumi was much better than I expected. First of all our guide Younus who has accompanied us was excellent. Tan swiss lodge which we stayed 2 nights was very comfartable and nice. Also Usambra expeditions helped me to buy the ferry tickets to Zanzibar, which was really a difficult thing for me .
Email Roby | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable
Cheap if I compare with other safari, but 5 stars forever. First day they came to pick us up to hotel, first night in amazing jungle lodge, second day full day safari in selous, 3rd day travel for mikumi ( amazing experience seeing the real Africa), 4 day mikumi park all day and 5 day coming back with the amazing driver Charles:). Recommended to everybody