JOCKY TOURS TEAM
Jocky Tours and Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2002)
- Member Of:
- AMREF & KWS
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $50 to $200 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
Your request will be sent directly to the operator
If preferred, you can contact the operator directly
Reviews
Email Reka | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very well organized trip
My trip with Jockey Tours and Safaris was very well organized. Our tourguide, Kikitu was an absolute legend and knew all the places where to take us on the safari so we could see all the animals at a very close distance. He was very friendly, fun and informative.
The hosts at our camp were extremly welcoming, the food was delicious and there was plant-based option for me as well. The accomodation at our camp was clean, though, very basic, but you don't really need anything else beside a bed and a bathroom.
I chose the '2 day 1 night' trip, but I highly recommend everyone to go with the '3 day 2 night' option if possible to get the full experience.
I highly recommend Jockey Tours and Safaris to everyone!
BR
Email Vinicius | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Five incredible days
We booked 5 days safari euth Jocky tours and it was incredible. The first day at Masai Mara we’ve seen the big five! We went to Nakuru and Naivasha two amazing places as well. The best is Joshua, our guide, so smart, knows about all the animals and explained everything for us!!
DE
Email Elif & Dominik | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Edwin was a great operator. He was open, friendly and positive. He had big knowledge and experience
The booking through Jocky tours was very easy and spontaneous. Everything worked smoothly. We are very happy and can only recommend Jocky tours and Safaris!
RU
Email Ivan | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great service, super guide, unforgettable time
It was unforgettable trip. We were in Masai-Mara, Amboseli, Naivasha. With our professional super guide Kikitu we found everything. We saw the big five, hundreds of elephants, crocodiles, buffalos, hypos and leopard! Kikitu made our tour very interesting, help us in everything we ask him, and he like the encyclopaedia about wildlife. Now we knew a lot about it.
The hotels we great and only one sad we have, that we have not enough time. We will be back certainly.
FR
Email Lukeo's family | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Cheap, best service and flexibility!
Our experience with Jocky tours was great !
From the start, Minneh was available for our questions, she really adapted the trip to our requests and did as much price simulations as we needed. She was super flexible even when we had to move the trip to other dates due to a family issue. Thank you so much Minneh for your professionalism and flexibility.
Jocky tours is the most competitive organisation we found for safari tours and we appreciated that everything was included in the price we were given (especially park fees).
Our driver James had a lot of knowledge about animals. He made sure he achieved the goals we had fixed together and in a day, we saw lions, crocodiles, hippos, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, buffalos, antilopes, zebras etc. The landscapes he brought us to were amazing. That way, we had a day of rest so the kids could enjoy the swimming pool at the hotel.
James was friendly and a very careful driver!
IL
Email omer | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
manific
halifa the guid is the best! he have a lot knowledge and he know where to find all the animals in the safari! I really hade a good time!!
CH
Email Ronny | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Masai Mara with Kalissa the Lionguide
Amazing experience in Masai Mara, the organisation was perfect, easy to comunicate and always at time.
Special thanks to Kalissa, his experience as driver and guide made the trip confortable and safety. He know about animals and know the park very well, cause his motivation we didint loose any seconde of our time and we could see all the animals.
DE
Email Tatjana | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
best operator ever!
Robert was the best driver you can imagine! He read our every wish from our eyes and we had more fun than ever before! Definitely we would recommend the whole tour company and especially Robert Kuambati as a safari driver, we will surely come again!
Email Kirsten | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Professional safari tour operator
We had a lovely safari for 5 days via Jocky tours. Great communication, good guides and proper accommodations.
US
Email Cody Tesnow | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible Experience, but not for the faint of heart, mind, or body!
Kenya is not for the faint of heart, mind, body, spirit or nose. (This coming from the guy with one of the world’s worst gag reflexes.)
AND. It is totally worth it, if you have what it takes.
Kenya has some of the most incredible, powerful landscapes I have seen, and hands down thus far the worst trash, everywhere. I am happy to attempt cultural distinctions for many things, this is not one of them. Poverty is everywhere, and even solving for that still doesn’t solve for trash.
My time with the Maasai, was brief, but powerful. They have some cultural practices I vehemently disagree with (male and female circumcision, child brides, but the government is trying to stop these) but the immense amount of litter in their village came from Coca-Cola, not ancient tribal practices. Just prepare yourself. They are a very funny and warm people who definitely have run into the wall that can be the future.
It was, of course, so stunning to see all the animals, we easily saw the “Big 5” more than once, and babies of those animals, everywhere. even if the stink of “tourista” is all over these activities, I accept that’s what I must be, if I wanted to see a rhino before they’re all killed by morons, stuck in nonsense superstitions. (Zero moral relativism for such things.) Being so close to them, seeing all their young, gave me hope. The tours were, for the most part, run well, I only got my back up about how some of the other companies acted (getting too close, driving too fast, number of people allowed in the park, etc) a couple times. Our tour guides at Jockey did NOT do such things, which I very much appreciated. Respectful.
Kenya is filled with dichotomy. Unbelievably beautiful places next to some of the most destitute I have ever seen. The progress that is happening here, like many other places, simply is not “for all.” (Mind you, I am not talking “modernity as progress,” it usually isn’t.) I just mean…the way things are going, progressing.
I have been in the slums (their word, not mine) from Mexico to Shanghai to Portugal to Turkey, and Kibali in Nairobi is the wildest one I have seen yet, set against a dazzling new Nairobi city skyline. Observation, not judgement.
My first guide, Alex, was a gem, kind, considerate, knowledgeable. We left some shoes with him when we switched cars, and he kindly brought them to us in Nairobi. I also had the pleasure of spending some of my time with an absolute legend of a guide, Calipha, who definitely game me the real scoop on everything from poaching to politics to prostitution. Revealing to say the least.
I did very much enjoy my time here. Formative. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Inspiring. Like life.
