Grassroots Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2013)
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $160 to $400 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
4 days in Selous with Grassroots
Super organized, super precise, super flexible and super professional. Absolutely advisable.
Fikiri, you’re the best!
Email Tristan | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic
Really lovely guide who knew exactly where to go in order to see the best things, as well as answer any questions we had. Accommodation and travel were also fantastic, couldn't have asked for more.
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Email Neil | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible experience with the most attentive guides!
Everything about our safari with Grassroots was amazing. Being our first time in Africa and having 2 young girls there was a certain amount of trepidation but also excitement in what we would see and where we would go. Our guide Ally and cook Mr Scouty were so friendly and knowledgeable, and really looked after us. Scouty’s food was the best!!! We saw a huge array of animals and travelled long distances over 5 days. Perhaps the only suggestion would be to shorten the driving distance on the first day from Dar es Salaam... other than that it was perfect. Highly recommend Grassroots, Ally and Scouty. We’ll always remember the experience and our new friends.
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Email Claudia | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
Incredible and amazing experience. Accomodation, organization, the reserve and the safaris were fantastic. Fikiri was a great profesional guide and safari driver. His passion for wild animals is contagious and we learned a lot of things about animal´´s' life. Asante sana!! We will come back!
UA
Email Tatyana | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It was our first experience with safari and it was incredible. Thank you a lot our Gide Fikiri!
We were glad about cooperation with Grassroots. Service was good, we have seen a lot beautiful views with hippos, antilops, giraffes, lions, zebras and etc. we had nice picnics under baobab trees. Gide Fikiri told us a lot interesting things about animals and tied showed a lot animals. He is professional Gide, driver and friendly boy.
Accomodation in Mloka Safari Lodge was unforgettable with warm welcome, hospitable owners, kind and friendly staff. Cozy luxury lodge in the typical African style, tasty kitchen and wonderful service.
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Email Constanze | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect 3-day Safari in Selous
We had a lovely time in Selous with Grassroots Safaris. We booked a 3-day Safari, which was awesome. The Wilderness Camp is a lovely place to stay, it's more of a hotel than a camp! Service was more than perfect and we could see hippos from the breaktfast table. The combination of boat safari, game drive and walking safari was very nice as we were able to see very different animals in a short period of time. Communication with Grassroots Safaris was easy and everything worked out as we wished. We would highly recommend to book a Safari with Grassroots.
The perfect trip
We took a three day safari into Selous game reserve with Grassroots. We are a family traveling with two preteens. We were absolutely in the clouds with our trip, the communication before was great, the organization of the pick up and activities was spot on. Our guide and driver was Fikiri and the guy is the perfect guide, a wildlife specialist that knows the ins and outs of this amazing land. We stayed in the Selous wilderness camp and they go highly recommended for our part. The camp is in an amazing location on a riverside with monkeys whipping about in the trees,hippos and crocs in the river below. The tents can hardly be called tents, they are luxurious, clean with full facilities and privacy. Staff as friendly and helpful as can be imagined.
All in all an amazing experience and with that price ticket we feel it was great value for what we paid.
Jon and Birta
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Email Patty | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
African authentic Safari Tour
Hallo, we haved booked a 9 days Tour in the southern of Tanzania, Ruaha, MIkumi, Udzungwa and Selous. The Organation was nearly perfect. We was 2 Persons , we had one Guide und for some days one cook. The overnite standings was easely but near the african poeple, the breakfast, lunch and dinner was already perfect. We didn't know what was coming , so it was always, every day a surprise to came in contact with the very friendly poeple. You must know, for us it was very intresting, when you want a luxery tour, you must pay much more and you see only the half of the living Africa. The tour was also strenght, because every day on the road and in the parks, when we had known this, so we had booked 3 days more, for example in the future: 2 overnite in the Udzungwa Mountains (go relexed trekking or overnite also in the mountain in tent with an ranger) 3 overnites in Ruaha ( walking safari, Night safari and hole day safari) in the Mikumi 2 overnite (it will be enough for hole day safari) and in the selous 3 overnites (river safari, also night safari , walking safari and relexing in the wilderness camp, its perfect--- big tent like nomads in the nature and wonderful manager and staff) -------Everytime ever very friendly Guide ( Fikirih)and cook all perfect and it was the 5 th Tour that we stayed in Africa ( two times now in Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe).Best regards to the Team of Grassroots Safari( the right name for this Organisation !!!!! P.S.: You have wishes, no Problem, ask Micky the Manager it will be organized.
German: Wir haben 9 Tage gebucht, anstrengende, wegen langen Fahrten, die Distanzen sind schon groß und die Strassenverhältnisse afrikanisch, zum Teil Schotterpisten. Wir hatten noch keine so authentische und nahe an / bei der Bevölkerung organisierte Safari. Alles hat genau gepasst, jeden Tag eine Überraschung. Unser Fahrer und ein extra Koch haben alles organisiert . Wer eine Luxus Safari ohne Nähe möchte oder sucht der muß wesentlich mehr bezahlen und bekommt nicht die Nähe die zum pulsierenden Leben Afrikas dazugehört. Bei Fragen und Wünschen seht Micky immer zur Verfügung und managt alles sehr gerne. Ein Tip: für solch eine Tour sind 3 Tage etwas erhohlsamer, da die Entfernungen und die Fahrten zu den unterschiedlichen Parks doch sehr groß sind. Liebe Grüße an das ganze Grassroots Team, welches für seine angebotenen Touren auch den richtigen Namen trägt. Jederzeit wieder !!!
BE
Email Sonya | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Trip
We had an amazing trip with Grassroots Safari. We booked a 6 days trip Mikumi, Ruaha, Udzungwa. Fikiri was our guide. He is an expert in Wildlife and we learnt a lof from him. He could reply to all of our questions regarding the wildlife, trees, flowers,... He is very respectful of the animals and nature. We had the opportunity to see lions, elephants, hippo, croco, leopard,... We felt very well with him and had a lot of fun. The cooker Mashaka was very cool and we had a great meal every day. Bennett was our guide in Udzungwa area. He is very knowledgeable about the forest and villages in the region. All of the organization of the trip was perfect. I strongly recommend Grassroots Safari. Thank you for everything guys. We will never forget our first safari in Africa.
FI
Email Matti | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic experience with Grassroots Safaris!
We took a 3 day safari adventure in Mikumi national park and Udzungwa mountains trek. Everything regarding our safari with Grassroots Safaris was excellent!
Communication:
Micky answered all of our (many) questions before the safari very fast and accurately.
Driver/guide:
Our driver and guide, Fikiri, was a great guy! He spoke very good English and told us many interesting facts about the animals and the nature in Mikumi park. Fikiri's driving was very safe and fast, he managed to find us all the great animals in the park including giraffes, zebras, hippos, impalas, elephants and even lions with their cubs! Fikiri is a real professional with many years of experience. He made our safari truly unforgettable!
Accommodation:
We spent the nights in Camp Bastian next to Mikumi park, and the place is amazing! Staff was extremely welcoming and made us feel like home.
Overall pure 10 out of 10 points, 5 stars, mark of excellence experience that we will never forget. Worth every penny! We made the right choice to go with Grassroots Safaris. No points to complain about, I highly recommend Grassroots Safaris!