Lion King Safari Guides
Lion King Adventures
- Offices In:
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Canada
United States
Switzerland
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- TATO & TTB
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $200 to $1,115 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
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Email Robert | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great safari experience with Lion King Adventures
As the leader of a group of 10 tourists, mostly first time to Tanzania, I started communication with Lion King 3 months before our journey. Pendo has been always so quick to respond, professional on the safari and patient to all my questions. With her help we designed our itinerary, which proved to be efficient. She also helped us book connection flight to Zanzibar.
Our drivers & guides are Salehe and Gilbert. Both are experienced, knowledgeable, resourceful and industrious. We saw all the animals on our wish list. Though we unexpectedly met with extended raining season that led to muddy road, Salehe avoided quite a few traps, and managed to pull us out of the rest quickly. We also saw him lend a hand to other trapped vehicles. Very good person!
We will come again in the summer and we will use Lion King again too. We highly recommend Lion King with its excellent staff and service. That's the guarantee for a prefect safari in East Africa.
Email Kathir Yoganathan | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very well organised safari trip
It was a unique wonderful and a memorable safari experience. It was a well organised trip, covering Arusha, Tarangire, Serengeti national parks. Ngorongoro crater was excellent and we saw a black rhino. It also included Lake Manyara. Excellent choices. Endoro lodge was exceptional, like a five star hotel. Well located with a Mountain View. Good selection of meals, including breakfast. We would not recommend Ilboro lodge. The location was bad. My wife found a metallic screw in her pasta dinner and showed it the waiter. My son ate banana cake and developed vomiting and diarrhoea all night.
The driver, Saleh was very good, safe driver, does not need a sat nav. His colleague driver from a different company got lost for two days! Saleh was very knowledgeable. However, it was difficult to understand at times. I am sure he will be a different person in a few years’ time.
In short. It was a brilliant safari trip. We will recommend to others without any doubt.
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Email Hany Osman | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Gilbert is absolutely amazing and knowledgable! He made extra effort for us to have an awesome time!
Lion King is very professional. They managed to arrange an unforgettable trip for us last minute. We had and awesome guide! (Gilbert), great food and wonderful hotels!. They are extremely organized and prompt. The exceeded our expectations in every way and they offer the best experience in Tanzania by far. We will most certainly book any future safaris with them!
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Email Gloria | Experience level: first safari
Professional organization and amazing experience
Lion King has been extremely responsive in all communications and proactively helped us in designing our itinerary. Once in Tanzania, they took care of everything and we had a great time there. We would highly recommend them and definitely organise another safari with them.
Email Samantha & Harry | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Surpassed all of our expectations!
I don't even know where to begin. This trip was the most amazing experience my husband and I have ever had and I could not recommend it enough.
We knew we wanted to go on Safari for our honeymoon, but we didn't know where to start. I found a number of companies on Safari Bookings, but Lion King stood out to us. From initial contact they were friendly, sent a detailed itinerary and guidance for Tanzania and were quick to respond to any questions we had big or small. At every stage of the planning (and we booked within 6 weeks of our visit) Wilbard and Pendo responded to us within 24 hours and arranged extra tours at our requests. We couldn't wait to arrive.
When we landed in Arusha it was 8pm and took us over an hour to get through security. I was concerned by this, but we were met by Emmanuel at the airport and he was instantly welcoming. He loaded our luggage, gave us bottled water and explained to us about Tanzania and where we were going. Emmanuel was also our tour guide for our final day in Arusha, where we went coffee making and to a hot spring. He couldn't have done enough for us - he guarded our belongings whilst we swam, kept checking to see if Kilimanjaro was out from the clouds and offered us local food and drinks. All of these things may seem small, but they made us feel very comfortable and welcomed. We cannot thank him enough!
Now, onto the safari. Ozzie was our driver and guide and we were so lucky to have got him. He was friendly, funny and exceptionally hard working (he even managed to teach us some Swahili, which we really enjoyed learning)! On day one we saw 3 of the big 5 and thought that was lucky, but he surpassed himself over the next 2 days. When we went to the Ngorongoro Crater & the Serengeti he found us the big 5 in one day - it was truly one of the best days of our lives! The leopard was found right at sunset in the Serengeti and although other tour guides (from other companies) decided it was too far to drive Ozzie got us there in time to see her asleep in the tree and then jump down and walk right next to us!
The next day we were in the Serengeti and Ozzie asked us what we would like to see - we said hyenas and cheetahs, if possible. Ozzie went out of his way to find them for us, and although others considered it too far a drive, he took us to see 2 family of cheetah (one had 5 cubs) and where the hyenas were gathering (which happened to be next to some lions and over 10,000 zebra). We were honestly so lucky with Ozzie's humour, knowledge and tenacity and cannot thank him enough for his work.
From the initial contact to our Arusha and Safari guide, Lion King exceeded all of our expectations and ensured we would never forget Tanzania (especially with the 6000 photos taken)! Thank you all so much!
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Email The Ernaux's family | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful !!!
Everything was perfect !
We've seen wonderful places, we saw all the animals that we came here for, all the lodges were very good and comfortable, all the people were so nice, very helpful, always smiling... They really make you feel at home !
And of course Bashir, our guide, was the best ! He was always very kind with us, always making some jokes, he taught us a lot about the country and we're still in contact with him so it's a really beautiful meeting that we've made.
Thanks to Tanzania and thanks to Lion King Adventures !!!
Asante Sana !!!
Email Luca | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Experience, great professionalism
We have spent 5 days in the hands of Lion King Adventures and we couldn't ask for a better experience. we really appreciated also the responsiveness over email when organizing the whole trip. Really happy!
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Email Deena | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Gilbert was an encyclopedia of knowledge. He was very friendly and spotted animals from a mile away!
We had the most amazing experience with Lion King Adventures. We planned a last minute safari trip. The staff was very professional and responded to emails within minutes. They were able to customize our trip to include everything we wanted at the price point we wanted. The accommodations were absolutely beautiful. We cannot say enough positive things about our tour guide Gilbert. He has the most amazing eye and was so professional and friendly. He knew the name of every single animal, plant and bird we ever asked him. We truly had such a wonderful time and loved every minute of our trip. We would highly recommend booking a safari with Lion King Adventures!!
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Email Eduardo and Lola | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
I would choose Lion King again
Great comunications and customer service from beggining to end. Our luggages got to Tanazania one day late and Lion king took care of everything for us. Everything went as planned. They are flexible and when possible will acomodate you sugestions and changes in itinerary. Good car, good food, etc...overall great customer service.
A special mention to our driver Goodluck, he is a great person an excellent driver and even a better tour guide. Very knowledgable and great sense of humor. I asked him a million questions and didn´t catch him once ):
He takes great pride on his job and really cares for nature and wildlife.
On top of everything, if you are into bird watching (I was not before this trip) you should make sure to book the safari with him.
Eduardo and Lola
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Email Ferluga Pierpaolo | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent organization, experience and support
I was lucky with a very supporting organizer able to help and organize everything in line with continuous changes of my flights booked. Thank you Pendo, I will remember you.
I was lucky with a very expert driver that explained a lot of things and guided us in a very professional way. I cannot imagine a better person for this job. Thank you Good Luck, we will remember you