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 Jean & Chantal | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Small is beautiful, very good contacts with them, and quick answers
Ali our also French, English and Swahili speaking guide/driver knows a lot of history, animals and culture, long experience and humour. We went to Tarangire, Serengeti Ngorongoro, Manyara as well , still a lot of fantastic memories in our head , all this animals, just superb
HK
Email Julio | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Kili dream
Organising this ascent for my parents, I conducted a pretty thorough research to make sure we get the best company. Looking back I can confirm that I found it and that it was a wise choice not to pick any company.
Ascending Kilimanjaro is a several day trip in an environment which is pretty rough. Saladin is the king of that mountain. I would need few pages to simply cover all the little attentions and details that him and his wonderful team has assembled to try to make this challenge as smooth as possible. Every details count as it is both a mental and physical effort. On top of that I was just impressed by the quality of food they manage to provide every meal in such a complex environment.
In terms of price Lion King are among the cheap one, a bit above the bottom price, definitely best value for money. Ask for Saladin!
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Email Rebecca | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing honeymoon!
Lion king made navigating our honeymoon a complete breeze. Starting from my initial conversations with Nick and Pendo they helped revise my itinerary numerous times to fully take advantage of our time in Tanzania based on very limited options flying from the US. Our guide Salehe was also truly amazing he was quick to teach us everything he knew about the wildlife and local culture. He also kept us on our toes helping to teach us some very basic Swahili. Every morning he had our jeep cleaned restocked and ready for the days adventure.
Booking a trip like this can be daunting when you don’t know much about the country or what to expect but Lion King really puts customer service at the top. Their responsiveness attention to details and meticulous planning lead to a truly memorable and amazing experience. Plus the hotels they selected for us were easily the best I’ve ever experienced on any vacation! Truly all once in a lifetime experiences
For those who may be worried about COVID testing and travel requirements lion king and Salehe made sure we had the tests completed for our return flights and even provided paper copies making traveling out of Tanzania super easy.
Would highly recommend lion king adventures for anyone considering a once in a lifetime safari experience
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Email Liana, Amir & Maya | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Safari with the perfect guide Gilbert!!!
We had an awesome experience with Lion King Adventures! Starting from my initial enquiry with Godwin and the lovely Pendo. They were easy to communicate with, via WhatsApp and e-mail, prompt in answering any questions that we had, and helped revise our itinerary numerous times.
We appreciated that Pendo coordinated all airport transfers, including from the airport to our hotel in Arusha, to and from the airport in our Zanzibar beach extension.
Our guide Gilbert was one of the highlights of our trip. He was extremely friendly, kind, knowledgeable, patient, helpful and professional. He amazed us with his ability to spot animals. Gilbert was happy to answer all of our questions and did everything he could to ensure that we had an incredible experience. With his help we were able to see all of the BIG 5, and so much more. We honestly felt like we stepped into a National Geographic documentary! Gilbert would point out things we didn’t even see, and on several occasions we were the first at some interesting sighting. This amazing man clearly has some sort of sixth sense when it comes to animals. His eyesight is incredible and he could see and identify tiny little blobs, barely visible to the naked eye. His ability to know where the animals are and more importantly, how they are going to behave was that made it so special.
We had a 5 day Luxury safari and went to Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater.
If you book with Lion King I promise you will not regret it!!
Thank You for an extraordinary experience and an excellent service!!!
Email Bettina & Elias | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Service
We just came back from our Safari Trip to Tarangire Nationalpark, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti and Lake Manyara. We booked a luxury Trip and our experienced Guide Musa did everything to make it most comfortable and exiting for us. We enjoyed the whole trip, but if you compare the parks Ngorongoro and Serengeti are the best! It would actually be enough to visit these two parks, since all "important" animals can be observed here more than once. Our trip was well organized and we had to think of nothing, everything (food, drinks) was included. Our hotels were high standard, even the „tented lodge“ in Serengeti was luxurious. We had great food, even at the picnic in the parks we got a nice and warm meal. At the end of our trip our flight was suddenly canceled (from Air Tanzania) and reacommodated to another airport afterwards. Although the other airport was 1,5 Hours away, Our Guide Musa brought us there without further ado.
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Email John | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lion King Adventures exceeded all our expectations.
Lion King Adventures and our guide, Gilbert, took what we wanted to see and do while we were in Tanzania and created an experience that both exceeded our expectations and met our budgeted requirements. We saw more wildlife than we ever dreamed possible. Stayed in luxurious accommodations set in stunning locations all while ticking every box on our list of animals, parks and local sites. Gilbert, our Lion King Adentures guide for all this, was awesome. He took great care of us along the way and pointed out wildlife in the bush that we would never have spotted in unlikely and hidden places. He had a great since of humor and a wealth of knowledge about the area, the fauna, the flora and the local people that helped enrich our experience fourfold. In a word, both Gilbert were awesome.
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Email Steve Castlen | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Safari: Excellence in Planning - Excellence in Execution
We took a 10 day Safari with Lion King Adventures and it was one of the best experiences of our lives. The detailed planning that Nick and James provided was exceptional; no detail was overlooked and they thought of everything. But, what made the tour exceptional was our tour guide, Gilbert. We saw the big 5 only because of his extraordinary ability to spot animals that were completely invisible to us. And, he was so nice and a genius concerning identifying animals and knowing all about their habits. We saw the rare black rhino, hundreds of elephants, over 75 lions, countless buffalo, five leopards, - and many of these were quite up close and personal. We only saw the black rhino know because he know so much about their habitat and where to look; he was right. We also saw 8 cheetahs. And, during the hunt we learned so much about the areas we visited and the animals. The hotel accommodations they got for us were simply amazing.
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Email Lore & Paride | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Educated friendly helpful
All excellent, from guide to tour, accommodation and organisation
All the staff is really nice and helpful
Recommended
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Email Victor | under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Words cannot describe!
Jambo Jambo (Hello Hello)
Where do we start?…
As our wonderful guide, Salehe, told us; “Lion King Safari tries to make everything perfect, from the office to the safari”, and they indeed succeeded. Let’s start from the beginning, at the Kilimanjaro Airport we where met with the biggest smile, you can ever imagine. The journey started.
Salehe (our guide) was very fast at learning our names, and the personal connection between us and him was already established. We started our journey at the Tarangire, and 5 Minutes in we where already blown away, wildlife everywhere. The Day was amazing and Salahe had this incredible Ability to always spot the Animals and the best spot to park the Car, so that we had the best view of the Animals and was right next to the action. After Tarangire, the Journey continued to 2 Days in Serengeti and 1 Day in Ngorongoro Crater. Safari was like a Gift that kept on giving. After numerous wonderful experiences, I strongly recommend Lion King Adventures. Lion King Adventures and Salehe made the Journey one of the best moments in my life. Salehe knew the Answer to almost every one of our crazy Questions, and if he didn’t he was very humble and honest, and told us he would research it, and he did:) The honesty is especially a Trait the our family value very high, so that was very great.
After all the kind words I still feel like I haven’t told 1% of the wonderful Experience, you really need to experience it by yourself. If only 6 stars was available, Lion King Adventures and Salehe would definitely receive that!
Kind regards from a very grateful Victor
Kwaheri (goodbye)
The perfect safari guide
If I had the possibility then I would give Lion King Adventures more than 5 stars.
And if some day returning to wonderful Tanzania, then I would definitely choose Lion King Adventures as our safari guide again.
It might seem expensive at first but after the safari one will see that you get full value for your money from this super professional company, which put all effort into bringing top service down to every little detail.
The response to our first enquiry was fast, precise and honest thanks to Nick. He was very patient with us during our planning and shared many different options to find the best solution for my family.
Our booking was handed over to Pendo after confirmation. She handled all the practical details and information level was great. Even a sudden change to the booking from our side did not cause any problems. Payment went smooth and I felt very safe all the way.
The safari itself was great thanks to Salehe and his very robust and always clean Jeep - Mufasa.
Game drive is like fishing Salehe told us. You might not catch anything, but with Salehe is was like throwing dynamit in a pond. All the fish came to the surface. I have never seen so many different animals in their natural environment. Either together in large numbers so that it would take our breath away, or so close to us that it felt like we could touch them. Salehe always had a great sense to find the best spots for us.
This together with he’s kindness and humor, doing everything possible to make us comfortable, sharing his wide knowledge about animals and plants and finally answering all our crazy questions, made our safari experience one that we will remember the rest of our life.
Thank you so much.