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
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!
FR
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.
US
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!
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.
CN
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.
SG
Email Matthew Tan | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Highly recommended Tour Operator & Tour Guide (Oswald Shayo))
The communication response from Lion King was always prompt and everything that was discussed (prior to our booking) was followed through meticulously.
I would also like to give special commendation to Oswaldo Shayo - our professional guide and driver
from Lion King Adventure.
Oswald is highly professional, knowledgeable and is always anticipating our needs throughout our safari holidays. He is prompt and punctual and more importantly, flexible with the entire itinerary and meeting to our needs and expectation of what a real safari experience would entails.
He speaks good English and kept us constantly informed of the itinerary and suggested important changes to our itinerary as dictated by the weather; and a really sharp eyes for spotting animals in the far distance.
A father of a 5 years old boy, Oswald has a heart of gold as we saw how he willingly stepped out onto the mud to rescue not 1 but 3 jeeps that was stuck in the mud.
He is always smartly dressed in uniform and diligently prepares our daily spread of lunch (much to the envy of other tour group). A safe and skillful driver - negotiating our jeep through floods and mud and never getting stuck throughout the entire trip; and our jeep is always spankingly clean the next morning.
My wife and I would highly recommend you to use Oswald and Lion King Adventure for your next Safari travel.
SG
Email Peck | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Prompt , professional , personable and excellent safari experience with LIOn KIng Adventure !
Impressed with Lion King prompt response to our enquires through WhatsApp calls and email . Theor recommendations of lodgings based on our Budget and needs were good and spacious . Our gude and driver Oswald is professional , knowledgeable and extremely helpful . He is also a very skilful driver , negotiating our Jeep through foods and mud , never once did we get stuck but was even able to help other jeeps which were stuck in the mud . Always smartly dressed in clean uniform , he also has “bionic eyes “ , helping us spot many animals from afar and making sure that we have a good view of them . Our lunch spread of beverages were always the envy of other safari tour group ! Thoroughly enjoyed our safari trip in Tanzania and very impressed with the cleanliness of public toilets and picnic areas . Our Jeep was washed almost daily whenever it is possible to give.us a clean and comfortable ride . Highly recommend LIon King Advebtures to anyone wanting an unfortgetabke experience in Tanzania!
CA
Email Isabelle Guevremont-Marcotte | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An unforgettable safari
We loved our safari organized by Lion King Adventures. Alifa our guide was great! We miss him so much we laughed with him. He has a great knowledge of everything that is alive in the Savannah, impressive! The accommodation and food was very good. In short, I highly recommend !! Thank you :)
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Email Margaret | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Friendly responsive team. Wonderful safari
We chose Lion King because of the good reviews. We were a group of 3, a middle aged couple travelling with our young adult daughter.The team responded promptly to our emails and tailored the trip to our requests. Pendo in the office was particularly helpful. Our daughter was already in Tanzania, they picked her up from her internal flight and a member of staff Emmanuel stayed with her til we arrived later that day. We visited Tarangire and then went on to the Serengeti and Ngorogoro crater. Our safari driver Ozzy looked after us well. We enjoyed looking at the birds and grazing animals as well as the big 5. Ozzy was good at sharing information with drivers and finding the animals. We were lucky and saw around 10 Cheetahs and over 15 lions. It was wet for the time of year, meaning the vehicles were concentrated on the more major tracks so it was busy at times. We did get big cats to ourselves a couple of times. The wet conditions meant that we needed Ozzy's driving skills . We helped others and got stuck in the mud ourselves a couple of times.. the other drivers pulled us out. This was part of the fun but I would only attempt self drive in the dry season The Ngorogoro crater is stunning like the garden of Eden. You can't walk i n the crater itself but we did a hike round the crater with an armed ranger which I would recommend. We stayed in mid range lodges which were welcoming and comfortable.
Thank You Lion King Adventures and our special Guide, Gilbert
We started out the trip with our pick-up waiting for us at the airport. The staff and our Guide were easy to communicate with, always ahead of time, very professional, polite and became our life long friends. Our Guide, Gilbert was funny, very knowledgeable, professional and incredibly polite. He got us to all the animals and let us take our time filming and chatting/laughing, it was incredible!!! Our accommodations were exceptionally nice with the BEST foods, and Gilbert always had our lunches, lots of water and beer/wine if we wanted. There was never anything lacking in our Lion King Adventure, all you had to do was ask and Gilbert made sure we had it. It has been a month since the safari and I live the memories everyday. I will go back in again in February during the migration, millions of animals and so wonderful to watch them in their daily life. As far as my favorite thing, all of it was like a dream, all of it was my favorite. Thank You James, your staff and Gilbert for a dream come true.