African Wildcats Expeditions at NgoroNgorocrater
African Wildcats Expeditions Company
- Located In:
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Netherlands
- Size:
- 1-5 employees (Founded in 2013)
- Tour Types:
- Specialized photographic safaris (Mid-range & luxury)
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $153 to $350 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Marlies, Frank, Just, Siem en Teun (Mr Neeh) | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The safari of our life!
In July 2018 we experienced an unforgettable 8-day safari with the whole family. In the preparation for the end of the safari we are excellently accompanied by African Wildcats Expeditions. We visited Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park, among others. All different but oh so beautiful. In the meantime we visited Rhotia Valley and spent the night there. Definitely worthwhile if only because the Dutch owners Joris and Marise have been taking care of orphans for more than 10 years. Very passionate and special people.
In terms of wildlife we have seen everything. At least the Big 5 and John spotted another Cheetah, who are very shy. We have seen much more than we could have imagined beforehand. Young lions, a live kill, crocodiles, many hippos, hyenas, etc. Each and every one beautiful and sometimes very close and let's hope that many generations can enjoy it. The trip was very good from start to finish, the lodges and the food were excellent. John and Charles, our guides during the safari are special people. They have conquered a place in our hearts.
We would like to thank Jacob (preparation for the trip), Saidi and especially John and Charles, incredibly. You breathe safaris and have an eye for wildlife (nature) and locals. Once in your life you must have been in the beautiful Tanzania. We will come back.
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Email Boris Winkelmann | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The perfect taylor made holiday experience
Very efficient, friendly, great advise in organizing the tour. The tour itself was perfectly organized and we did not have a single surprise or disapppointment. We stayed at some amazing lodges with unbelievable scenery. Our tour guide was a true blessing, friendly, knowledgeable, always spotting exciting wildlife and entertaining. He became a real friend of the family. The perfect holiday !
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Email Anneke and Bram | 20-35 years of age
Fabulous experience and memory for life
Fully prepared and full of expectations we, mother and son, arrived in Tanzania for our Kilimanjaro expedition and safari organized by African Wildcats. Both surpassed our expectations! The Kili expedition was of course tough but such a great experience. We were escorted by Saidi and his crew and they all did a fabulous job! So kind, caring, experienced, wise and sensible. Amazing food, thank you Paulo. We loved the singing of our crew, especially when they joined us, singing, in the last part of our way back to base camp at the end of summit day. African Wildcats decision not to start summit day at midnight is a really good one. It helps you climbing and enjoying this tough last climb and makes sure that you'll have the whole summit, under the sun in the snow, to yourself. No one else on the summit makes the feeling of invincibility even bigger.
After 6 days on the Kili, we had a few relaxing safari-days with our very experienced guide Ole. He guided us to the right spots. We saw many animals and often really close. The Sangaiwe tented lodge, where we stayed the first night, is exceptionally beautiful; almost a pity we only arrived there at the end of the afternoon.
Thank you African Wildcats, for this fabulous experience and memory for life.
We will highly recommend African Wildcats Expeditions to anyone planning on visiting Tanzania for the Kilimanjaro expedition and safari.
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Email Dennis Blok | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3 x Times we saw the Big Five!!!
For me it was the second time to visit lovely Tanzania. Without any doubt we booked our holiday at African Wildcats. Last time I visited it was the end of the dry season, now I visited just after the wet season, what a difference!
Lanscapes we now green, the grass was much higher but also other animals were to be seen.
The outcome was spectaculair: we saw 12 rhino's! Even one in the Serengeti!
I would like to thank Jacob, our guide, for his focus, humor but also persistence!! We just could not leave the parks without seeing every animal! :-)
Thanks again, and offcourse we will visit again!
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Email Mikael & Hanna | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent safari tour operator with strong care for both wildlife and local people
We made a fantastic safari with African Wildcats Expeditions in July this year – it was indeed a memory for life!
We were travelling with our children (10 and 12 years) and parents so when we planned we looked carefully for a guide that could be fully trusted. Jacob Loserian was perfect for this mission, when we planned the trip and during the entire safari. Jacob has great experience and knowledge, and he is service-minded and a safe driver.
We first went to Seregenti for some days and stayed in a tented camp that we highly can recommend, The Thorn Tree tented Lodge. The camp has clean and spacious tents, excellent food and is place in the middle of nature.
During the safari, we spotted a lot of animals, not least lions – also hunting on repeated occasions! Clearly, the game driving was facilitated by Jacob’s experience, knowledge on nature and his great eyesight. We also had a wonderful day in the beautiful Ngogorongoro crater before heading back to Arusha.
After the safari we spent a day visiting a school, health center and a traditional Maasai village in a community in the Monduli mountains, approximately 1h easy drive from Arusha. We had the great pleasure to hand over school books, pens and footballs to the school children, and we learned much about the work and challenges in the school, as well as of the traditional way of living in a Maasai village. Again, Jacob was an excellent guide and since he also comes from the same area, he has knowledge as few other guides we have met over the years.
The visit in Monduli gave us and our children a good opportunity to meet people far from the ordinary tourist tracks and we established good contacts with the people. We will never forget this visit and hope to come back in a few years.
Overall the journey was beyond our expectations. Having travelled in Tanzania and elsewhere in East Africa several times over the years, we can absolutely recommend African Wildcats Expeditions to anyone looking for a high-quality safari tour operator, with a strong care for both wildlife and local people.
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Email Lenk and Wendy | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
wonderfull
We did a 10 day tour.
we visited different parks:
Lake Duluti; we walked and canoed around it, the birdlife was wonderful.
Arusha NP; we spotted the beautiful Colobus monkeys, many birds and other wildlife, even an elephant
came out of the bush for us.
Tarangiri; We did a lot of (early) game driving, sorry John, and saw some amazing things, the black eared
fox, leopard in a tree with his catch. Many elephants drinking in the dry river bed, digging holes
to collect the water.
Lake Manyara; the birdlife in the lake is amazing, but also the klipspringer and the lions were great.
Serengetti; We have never seen so many lions as this year, very special was a mother lion with 5 cubs,
walking and playing close to the car.
Every day we saw more lions, honeymooners, big groups laying on the Kopjes, and we will
never forget the cub laying close to the rocks just looking at us, rolling around and having fun.
The cheetah, who just lied behind a little bush, the Thomson gazelles came too close, off she
went, a kill, just in front of our vehicle.
The Serval who calmly walked by was amazing.
Ngorongoro; the rhino was hiding but we had a great time at the hippo pool, spotting rare birds .
The lions were doing a nice play, pretending they were going to kill a buffalo, but it was only a
try out for the youngsters.
All together we had a great time, saw some amazing wildlife, an enormous amount of birds, very small to very large. John was willing to stop as many times as we requested, drove around as long as we wanted....
early drives, with nice breakfasts after the drives .
Always helping to find out what bird we spotted, he new an awful lot of them, the rest we searched for in his book.
The camp sites and the (tented) lodges we stayed were on good locations.
We will never forget the elephant in the Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp, who came buy in the night, stopping in front of our tent, his trunk swinging on our veranda, with only the mosquito netting in between him and us was quiet an experience.
We had a great time, the safari was very well organised up to our wishes, and the information giving beforehand was very helpful.
Arusha, Tarangiri,
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Email Olga | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A good guide makes a great difference!
We, a family of 4 with two kids of 6 and 8 years, did a two weeks holiday with the african wildcats. It was absolutely the best safari we have ever done! Jacob, the guide, made this difference cause of his experience and knowledge of the wildlife and its behaviour. Thanks to him we saw a live kill by a cheetah, we saw two times leopards climbing out of the tree to start hunting, we saw the start of the wildebeest migrations and plenty of wildlife (serval cats, the complete big 5!, lions from very close).
The accommodations were perfect, but that can be organised by all tour operators. I learnt now that it is really the guide that makes or breaks your safari! Jacob is top, enthusiatic and very motivated to make your safari a once in a lifetime experience!
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Email Teun Ooms | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A holiday to be cherised
In the summer of 2016 we made in a trip to Northern Tanzania and Zanzibar. In the months before the trip we were able to organize the trip together with their staff exactly to our, rather specific, wishes. That was allready part of the fun. They did an excellent job and managed to find the location of a farm my wife's father started around 1955. They visited the place (at a really remote location!) to check it out before we arrived and made it possible for us to visit that place and meet the new owners who showed us around. This was very special for us but the rest of the trip was equally well-organised. We camped in Arusha NP (the best start possible, walking safari's, wonderfull scenery at the campsite and very relaxed), near Monduli, Tarangire NP, tribes near Lake Eyasi, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater. Our driver drove very safely and had a tremendous knowledge of wildlife. We as biologists must have challenged him really though but we were completely satisfied. And he was a really nice person as a company which is also very important if you are so close together in a car for weeks. He became a lifetime friend. The cook also was very important for the trip. We were always very hungry before the meals and satisfied smiling afterwards. He certainly deserves a Michelin star for his avocado salad if we may only mention one dish. Real Tanzanian delicious food. And superfresh, we had no problems with our stomachs or other inconveniences. We saw far too much wildlife to mention it here, but a group of elephants chasing away more than a dozen lions, the crossing of the river Mara by wildebeasts and zebras and the animals walking around the campsites during breakfast were certainly experiences we'll remember the rest of our lives.
After the safari we stayed on Zanzibar. Relaxing at the beach and visiting Stonetown and Chumbe island.
We highly recommend African Wildcats to organise your safari. We think you won't be disappointed.
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Email Henri and Maria | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exiting safari tour in North Tanzania and Kilimanjaro expedition
African Wildcats organized for a group of nine people a Kilimanjaro Expedition and a safari tour. Both were well organized. The Kilimanjaro expedition was escorted with a professional and very friendly group of Tanzanian guides and porters. Good food, shelter and medical supervision.
With the safari tour we visited four national parks; Arusha, Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. It was an amazing experience. We saw many big animals and birds. The guides leaded us to the right spots, were enthusiastic and could tell a lot of as well the nature as the culture of Tanzania. They selected for us very good lodges. Among them the Kiboko lodge which is part of a social project and runned by formerly homeless kids.
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Email Jan & Steve H. | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Time in Tanzania
This was the trip of a lifetime to Tanzania. African Wildcats (Jacob) took us to 5 amazing parks where we got to see every kind of wildlife; much more than we ever dreamed we'd see. Jacob takes pride in presenting his country and the people. The food was delicious and plentiful, the camps well set up, and our game drives over the top! We also enjoyed all of the cultural "people-to-people" experiences. We are so happy we were referred to African Wildcats for this experience.