Kenya & Tanzania team at Tarangire Sopa Lodge.
Travel For Change Africa
- Located In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2014)
- Member Of:
- ASTA & TRA
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $300 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Juanita Sultana | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent service made my safari experience a truly memorable one, exceeding my best expectations!!!
From the start Patricia, at the office, was very helpful with suggestions about planning the safari tour with regards to visiting different terrains and landscapes, safety and health issues as well as choice of accommodations and payment issues. Elliot and Johnson gave us a warm welcome on our arrival and made it very easy and straight forward to settle into the tour. Patrick, our personal guide, made the remainder of the tour an exceptional experience! He was always on the alert to see to our comfort and needs both during the long drives and at our accommodations, all of which were of excellent standard! Patrick is so knowledgeable about the abundant wildlife and the country's culture we witnessed on the tour ... it really was a tremendous learning experience!! It was very obvious that Patrick has a passion for wildlife and that he aims at giving his clients his super best!! Patrick is also very patient and stopped on request for the hundreds of photos we took :) He got to know us well enough to suggest places to visit which might interest us, like the elephant orphanage, the giraffe sanctuary and the hand-made bead factory, and he actually got us there on time in spite of the heavy traffic we encountered ...he has excellent driving skills!!
In a nutshell..... the experience by far exceeded my expectations and this is definitely due to the superb service offered by the Travel for Change team ..... they are tops in their line of work and highly trustworthy ...highly recommendable :) They made it an experience of a lifetime!!! thank you
Email Delia | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent, custom made, 7 days private safari in Kenya (Nakuru-Naivasha-Hells Gate-Longonot- Mara)
Patricia organised a fantastic, (very) custom made, 7 day safari for two for us at the end of July.
The camps were the ones I requested and of overall very good quality, the itinerary was followed as agreed, and Francis, our driver and guide, was wonderful - knowledgeable, keen to ensure we saw everything (and we did, even leopards!), and a pleasure to spend time with and talk to about Kenya. He was flexible when needed, and always in a good mood and ready to answer our many questions.
I found the communication with Patricia ahead of the trip great (so prompt and helpful compared to other operators with whom I was discussing in parallel). She was patient in agreeing an itinerary we liked and responded timely. Having researched many safari companies, I thought the offer (accommodation and activities included) was great value.
On choice of camps, I'm sure Patricia could recommend and arrange everything with little effort for clients, but I had very specific requests, which she met brilliantly. Our favourite experience was Wilderness (as it was very small and remote/wild), followed by Basecamp. We enjoyed that by staying at Wilderness we got to experience a Land Cruiser safari and a walking safari in a beautiful conservancy next to Masai Mara included in the package. Crater Lake tented camp (close to Naivasha) was also in a very beautiful setting.
Our itinerary also included a Hell's gate walk and cycle, and a hike up Mount Longonot. They were both organised very smoothly and we felt very safe and taken care of by the local guide the company arranged.
It was a fantastic week and I'd highly recommend Patricia and Francis!
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Email Karthik | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Have good contact with drivers , hotels and the park accommodation. Land cruiser vehicles were good.
The drivers had the thirst to show animals and drive hard way untiringly throughout the packaged tour. It was saluteable and we sighted more animals and the Masai village too. Coordination from TravelforChange was very good for all the different places we visited in my customized tour. Will look forward to contact them for any of my future Africa trips
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Email Stephanie | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
amazing and really good organized trip!
We really enjoyed the trip with travel for change. The trip was well organized, we had great accommodations and really loved the places we went to. Patricia helped us a lot by deciding where to go and how to arrange the trip. Her answers were always prompt and with very good informations about the options.
Martine was a great driver with good sense for all the animals. We saw everything we wanted and even a lot more. Everyone was very kind and we didn't have any bad encounter. Thank you so much for a great time in Kenya.
DE
Email Mary&Sven | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing safari totally customized to your needs
We can really recommend to book a Safari tour with Travel for Change africa. As we had already fixed Start and end Dates, we had to customize the safari to the very end including a visit to famous ngorongoro crater and due to a recommendation of a friend also to go to Serengeti national Park which is a huge distance for a four days safari. Travel for Change did this perfectly and we had an amazing time with incredible lodges. We slept at rhino lodge and kubu kubu tented camp. Both lodges are absolutely fantastic. Our guide named Eli prooved to be an 'eagle eye' who detected e.g. Cheetahs earlier than our binoculars. Incredible ;-). Eli was a great guide providing us with all information needed during the safari. Really nice guy.
Email Yassine | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
What a trip!
We have been on a Safari in Kenya organized with the amazing help of Patricia. She promptly answered all of our questions and really helped in deciding what choices were best for our trip.
We have chosen the Semi Luxury package and all of the lodges/camps we stayed at were exceptional and in amazing locations.
Do ask for Patrick! He was our fantastic guide during this trip, in addition to being a very enjoyable person to travel with. He really made sure we were able to see the big5 and so much more in excellent conditions. We really had good time and will probably come back some time.
Thank you Patricia and Patrick and all the travelforchangeafrica team for the excellent tour organization. We already recommended you to our friends when they would be travelling to Kenya.
CA
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a Lifetime
My wife and I have just returned from the most memorable trip we have ever experienced.Travel For Change Africa's 7 day safari in Kenya was well organized and true value for money. We chose the semi luxury package.It provided us with comfortable accomodations like the world famous Treetops wher we looked out of our bedroom window at elephants, water buffaloes and many other animals and birds.All our meals were tasty and the staff were super attentive to our needs.What made our trip so special was that it was a private safari with a guidewho was passionate about his work. Martin ,our guide/driver went out of his way to make it the most amazing trip ever.He was good humoured and knowledgeable. We saw all of the Big Five animals and more,including cheetahs and leopards. We even saw a heron swallowing a snake, a hyena finishing off a water buffalo, a leopard dragging its kill up a tree and many other unforgettable sights. Thankyou Martin,Patricia,Eliud .
We have no hesitation in recommending your company to our friends and anyone who wants to experience a trip of a lifetime. We look forward to another trip to perhaps Tanzania next year.
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Email AJ Slater | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great Trip, Great Experience.
Elliot and our Guide Patrick handled everything and provided us with a great Safari to Hell's Gate, Lake Naivasha and the Maasai Mara. We had a very good time. Patrick went out of his way to make sure we saw a huge variety of animals.
CA
Email Nate | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wow! A Great Little company.
My wife and I did a lot of research before settling on Travel For Change to do our Safari. The initial correspondence was excellent with all our questions answered and the information provided was helpful. This was the initial reason that we picked this company. Upon arrival to Kenya, they sent a driver and guide to meet us and take care of our transfer to the hotel before we headed out. These guys saved our bacon as the hotel was not ready and we would have been stuck if it had not been for them.
The next day we began our safari and were greeted at our hotel by our guide, Francis who was to be our point person for our safari. We could not have got a better person. He was everything we expected and more. The safari was a 6 day/5 night journey that took us through 3 parks and through it all, Francis went above and beyond to ensure our safety and comfort. His skills were amazing and took us to around each park and made sure we got to see what we wanted. In a nutshell, he made it a special trip.
This is a smaller company and their flexibility and attention to detail, made our safari a truly special memory!
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Email Allison | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best Safari experience from start to finish
Once in a lifetime! I am so happy we found Travel for Change. Patricia worked with us prior to our trip to make sure we fit in everything we could in the short period we were in Kenya for (4 days with 3 on safari). We were a group of 3 women travelling and it was important to us that we felt safe, comfortable and taken care of and all of those things happened! Eliud was a great starting point for us as he arranged our airport pick up and connected us with our fantastic tour guide Martin.
We selected the SemiLuxury option for our 3 day safari. Our first night was spent in luxury at the Dusit D2 in Nairobi before our safari - one of the safest best hotels i think i have ever stayed in while traveling abroad. For our first night on safari, We stayed at Camp Ilkeliani which i could not speak higher of - the staff there was incredible, the views from the sundowner were unbeatable and our tent was so comfortable. We also stayed at the Lake Naivasha Lodge which was amazing - animals in our backyard. We really wished we could have enjoyed more of this lodge but the sunset, bbq and animals were amazing.
This trip was unforgettable! We saw all the animals we wanted to, experienced the African culture in what felt like a very genuine way and connected with the environment. 10/10 would recommend.