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 Jennifer & Cedric | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Baby Lions, Leopard and Cheetah, a great week with big cats and more!
We had an amazing week with our guide Khalid. He was polite, professional and well-spoken in English. From his 15 years as a safari guide we could see he has a lot of experience and knows all the good spot to find the wildlife. He was also adapting the trip to what we we would like. We wanted to spend as much time as possible looking out for the animals so most of the days we woke up a 5:30 and were some of the last to arrive in the lodge. Khalid was more than happy to do long days and always tried his best the animals.
Some of the highlights of the trip:
- in Tarangire, we have spotted an elephant eating alone close to the road. After waiting for a while he was joined by more and more elephants and we were able to see more than 20 of them up close (so were a meter or 2 away from us).
- in Central Serengeti, we saw a whole pride of lions from very close. There was one male, 7 females including that were nursing around 10 babies. It was amazing to then them a few meters away interacting with each other like that. We also saw a female unsuccessfully hunting a gazelle which was very interesting to see as we were able to observe her approaching for 30 minutes.
- in Central Serengeti, we saw a big male leopard in a tree as well as 4 cheetah (2 males sleeping on one occasion and another day a mother with a juvenile male eating a pray)
- in Northern Serengeti we saw 3 wildebeest crossings. In one of them we even saw crocodiles attacked some of the weaker wildebeest that got carried away from the group by the river.
- in the Lake Manyara, we saw some lions climbing into trees to lookout for prays in the area
We saw many different animals on several occasions on top of the one highlighted above: giraffe, hippos, hyena, jackal, buffalo, zebra, vulture, antilope.
We warmly recommend Lion King Adventure and Khalid!
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Email Kate | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Enock was amazing, best guide you could get
It was amazing and a trip we could never forget, filled with so many animals, beautiful sites and amazing people all led by our great guide Enock - highly recommend
CO
Email Juan & Natalia | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excelent!
The best wonderful time in tanzania with lion king. The safari was perfect! We saw a lot of animals. The food, the hotels, everything was wonderful. Anna was great! took care of us! Bright at the airport and Ally, our guide, just wonderfull!, very kind very gentle, with a lot of information. Really recomended experience!
CH
Email Kevin | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing safari experience in the northern circuit of Tanzania
We were on a private 11 Days Safari with Lion King Adventures this September 2022. Already in the booking process we made very good experiences with the Lion King offices, as they adressed all our questions and advised us well. Lion King Adventures is a local Safari operator not working through an agent and we valued the direct communication through which we could customize the safari to our wishes (and not having to go through a travel agency). We ended up going to Arusha National Park, Tarangire National Park, Lake Natron, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara.
As we arrived in Tanzania we were taken good care of since day 1. We got to know our driver guide Immanuel, a young and very passionate safari guide (speaking good English). He took us through diverse landscapes (and even more diverse roads) and guided us to fantastic sites and animals. We got to see all the big 5, tree-hanging lions and the Great Wildbeest Migration, where we experienced three amazing crossings of the Wildbeests through the Mara River. Immanuel always made us feel safe (while driving and also in general) and appreciated. He communicated well with the other guides in the park and we were amazed how fast he took us to the sites where the interesting animals were spotted. The bush lunches were definitively exceeding our expectations and instead of eating out of a cardbord box we always had a very nice lunch setting with table cloth and real tableware. The car Banzai (the Lion King vehicles are named after Lion King Characters) was always clean and had a lot of space including a charging outlets and a fridge with complimentary drinks, that was very nice. In general, Immanuel also accounted for any additional wishes we had on the road, showed us good places to buy souvenirs and made sure that our timeplan and itinerary was optimized. We really liked his mindset that as we safari bookers spend a lot of money on a safari trip therefore also deserve to get a good service. Also, we really liked Immanuel as a person. ;)
In conclusion, we will definitively recommend Lion King to our friends and for sure be playing with the thought to revisit the beautiful Tanzania at some point.
Email Danielle and Ian | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing!
We found the whole communication and booking at lion king safari brilliant. Pendo was excellent up until the safari and even afterwards when it flight was changed, she quickly helped us organise our travel arrangements.
Derick was our safari guide and he was amazing, he really is the lion king as we saw so many lions each day. We also saw three leopards which apparently is quite rare. If you get Derick as your guide you are in for a real treat as he is brilliant and we couldn't be happier with the experience he provided for us.
Email Ivor | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Professional and flexible
I can only highly reccomend Lion King. From the initial conversations via email about the safari organization, up to the actual three day trip,everything went very well. Edi, our guide was very well prepared and professional. He took good care of us and also took the time to explain a lot of things we were seeing . We also had fun together and listened to good music . Karim, our chef, was also very attentive, warm, and prepared delicious food .
I general also a lot of local people confirmed to us that lion king is a good company that takes good care of both their employees and clients. Highly reccoemnded !
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Email Isha Pamula | under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best trip ever
Mr. Gilbert is the best!!! Because, he showed us big cheetahs, leopards almost all the animals in Tanzania. He had very good eyes. He spotted every animal and knew all different varieties of animals. Mr. Gilbert was very kind and even when I annoyed him, he said nothing lol
DE
Email JS | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Organization and Guide perfect
Lionking tailored and organized our safari plus Zanzibar for us (family of 5, kids 16-24) perfectly. Khalifa, our guide, was a great animal spotter (how did he manage that while driving on those roads?) and knew everything about the animals as well as country and people. He was also a nice and friendly guy and competent driver, so we always felt safe. Lionking vehicles (we saw other Lionking vehicles, too) were all in good condition.
Our safari comprised Tanguire, Lake Manyara, 3 game drives to different parts of Serengeti, and Ngorogoro Crater. September 2022 was apparently a good time as it was not very crowded by people, but lots of animals. Although each area and day had a unique and unforgetable character we would not like to have missed, if you had less time for a safari, you could skip Lake Manyara and possibly cut down on Serengeti. The rain in recent years has mostly destroyed the marshlands of Lake Manyara and you can see the remaining animals also elsewhere.
Email Lisa | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A lifetime experience!
Just came back from a 6 days / 5 nights safari tour with lionking adventures. It was really an unforgettable and great lifetime experience in Africa. It was a pleasure to have Good Luck as our safari guide! He has shown us every animal we wanted to see and always looked for the best position to take photos of them. He had a very good instinct to find all the animals and told us a lot about the wildlife and about Tanzania. But also he has a very respectful way to deal with the animal an the nature, so that we don‘t scare the animals - I really liked that!
Careem, our chef, was the best we ever could have imagined! The food, he prepared for us, was always delicous and he respnded to all our whises- we wanted to have some typical tanzanian food.
The tents, in which we slept and the safari truck where in really good condition and clean.
I am thankful for Lionking Adventures, Good Luck and Careem, who made sure that we had the best time of our lives!
Asante!
CH
Email Julian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing safari with numerous wild cat sightings (lion, serval, leopard, cheetah)
Professionally organised all inclusive safari with a very attentive and friendly guide (Abu). He noticed all our wishes and made additional suggestions such as an impressive walking safari.
We managed to see numerous lions (more than 20), had the pleasure to observe lions hunting and picking up her 3 month old kitten later on. We mentioned our wish to see servals and ended up with 5 sightings.