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Unlimited Expeditions: The Soul of Tanzania
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- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2015)
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $400 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Gabor Keri | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent tour, 5star operator....
We have just finished our 8 day safari in Tanzania. It was a long proceed to find the right tour operator bofere the trip and we chose Soul of Tanzania, a relativly young and small company, but with an experienced staff.
We had the feel well before the start that we made the right choice as the company gave perfect support in the planning process.
The safari itself exeeded all of our expectations. Everything - inc all major and minor parts - went well. Our guide - Herman - is by far the best ever, I met - knows all places in Tarangirie, Ngorongoro or Serengeti to find the animals in action.
The best thing: when you are on safari, normally you have a box-lunch with usual stuff like hard-boiled egg, sandwich, cream cheese, some fruit juice, crackers etc.
Soul of Tanzania provides warm lunch (!!!) with a bottle of wine. It was an amaizing experience!!
We are a family of 4, with two kids (boy 14, girl 12). It was a life time experince for them as well.
Soul of Tanzania is the Best!
We had the opportunity to take a tour of northern Tanzania with Soul of Tanzania. This review will be in two parts; the first is the company, the second is the driver. This is for a party of 2 in July 2017. We spent eight days on Safari. The first day was in Tarangire. The next two days were in central Serengeti. We then spent two days in northern Serengeti, followed by a day in Ngorongoro crater.
Company: we did an extensive amount of research for our Safari. Soul of Tanzania was the first company to respond to our request, and all subsequent emails were also replied to promptly. We felt the pricing was fair. The vehicle was in excellent condition, the air conditioning worked perfectly, and it was equipped with a refrigerator to keep bottled water cold. There is a charging strip to charge your batteries, cameras, etc. We were served hot delicious lunches every day in picturesque locations. They tailor-made our itinerary, and we loved every minute of it. The company did provide us with a good list of things to bring on safari. One thing we would recommend is a pair of binoculars for each person. The driver is equipped with a pair which you can borrow, but we strongly recommend to bring your own. We each had our own pair and we used them constantly. This company was excellent, and we received five star service.
Driver: we had the pleasure of having Zamo as our driver. He is personable, knowledgeable, and professional. He always honored our requests. We enjoyed getting to know him in the week we spent with him. He was always punctual and flexible with what we wanted to do. He was entertaining and informative at the same time. You can tell he has passion for what he does, and he is excellent at it. We only have positive things to say about Zamo. His English is excellent, and he taught us several words and phrases in Swahili.
Conclusion: we would highly recommend Soul of Tanzania for your Safari, and we also highly recommend requesting Zamo as your driver.
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Email Federico Ezcurra | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent service!!
Was great! Everything was accomplished. The Landrover are in excellent conditions. The guides are great. And the food is incredible, the best food of all the tours. The camps were beautiful and complete. We enjoy an excellent trip and will repeat it. Thank you very much Soul of Tanzania!!
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Email Nicola and Xiaodan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience
We had been dreaming of a safari in Tanzania for years and this Summer we finally had the opportunity to make our dream come true. After quite a lot of searching we finally decided to accept the offer from Soul of Tanzania. From the first contact, the sales team (Francis and Miguel) proved to be extremely reliable, helpful and professional, with all our emails being replied to within maximum 24 hours. After exchanging several emails, our itinerary was custom tailored to our preferences: two days in Tarangire, one day in Ngorongoro, two days in central Serengeti and two days in northern Serengeti. After being picked up from the airport by our guide Herman, Iris came to our b&b before the afternoon to welcome and brief us about the itinerary. The safari was totally successful and exceeded our expectations. Herman was a knowledgeable, professional and considerate guide. His knowledge of wildlife, flora and fauna is impressive. He left none of our many questions unanswered. Also, we were impressed by Herman's talent for spotting animals from very far and finding remote spots off the beaten track where animals could be observed without being disturbed. The highlights of the safari included a female lion chasing a warthog, a huge pride of lions resting, a family of cheetahs and a massive herd of wildebeest crossing the Mara river. Herman was always thoughtful and caring, doing all he could to please us and make us feel comfortable. We also appreciated how Herman managed to optimise the time and show us as much as possible. The service provided by Soul of Tanzania was outstanding. We really enjoyed the warm lunches we were served every day, whereas all other companies only provided their clients with lunch boxes. We slept in tented camps, in touch with nature but with all comforts provided. All camps were from comfortable to very comfortable, serving nice to excellent food. At the end of the tour Iris met us again for our feedback, which could only be extremely positive. Thanks Soul of Tanzania for this amazing experience, that we'd like to share with the whole family in the future.
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Email Cátia Silva | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best trip of our lives! Thanks to Soul of Tanzania!
Choosing Soul of Tanzania was the best thing that we could do for this incredible trip in Tanzania. We started to do a 5 days Safari (Tarangire, Ngorongoro & Serengeti National Parks) with the best tour guide (Benedict Mfuro) that we could find :) He is an incredible person and he knows everything about wildlife and where to find the animals that we were wishing to see it! Another plus of Soul of Tanzania are the meals that they provide - local food with very high quality, wine and Amarula (a traditional Tanzanian liquor to drink with coffee). ((However, other companies just have snacks and sandwiches (we didn't want that because we had to spend many hours inside the car doing the game drive)). All these 3 Natural Parks are amazing, but at Serengeti we were lucky to see a super pride - amazing!!! Soul of Tanzania made (for sure!!!!) our trip much more than a Safari Tour because they arranged all hotels, transfers, guides (ecc) and they gave us the best recommendations for everything (including our stay at Zanzibar for 2 weeks after the Safari).
Iris (the Operations Manager of Soul of Tanzania at Arusha) was always very helpful and available at any time to help us during these 3 weeks. More, during this incredible trip Soul of Tanzania helped my fiancé to organize an engagement surprise for my me at Four Seasons Serengeti and it was simply the best day of our lives!
We want to come back asap to Tanzania and for sure we will ask Ben to do another Safari with us with Soul of Tanzania (there are so many other parks that we really want to visit). Btw... If the car is important for you, be sure that they have the best cars in terms of comfort and safety - they have the perfect conditions to do a memorable game drive. Thank you my friends! We will never forget this trip.
Email Jenny | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We had an amazing safari trip with Soul of Tanzania. Can't imagine a better experience!
This was our first trip to Africa. We found it quite overwhelming choosing a travel company: there are so many that provide safari tours to East Africa.
From my first contact with Iris, I felt confident that I had chosen the right company. Response to my many emails was always prompt. Iris did a great job planning our itinerary. The recommendations she made regarding accommodation and the route we travelled turned out to be spot on. We appreciated the orientation provided by Iris on our arrival in Arusha and the opportunity to meet our guide, Nico.
Our vehicle exceeded our expectations. Extra height in the windows and wind up passenger windows meant we had uninterrupted views of the wildlife.
A guide can make the difference between a good tour and a great one! Nico was exceptional and did everything he could to ensure we had a fantastic Safari experience. He was very professional in his approach and is clearly very proud of the service Soul of Tanzania is providing.
Nico was very knowledgeable about the flora, fauna and the geography of East Africa. We learnt so much about Tanzania. We were impressed with Nico's intricate knowledge of the wildlife parks. Without this in depth knowledge of the parks and their wildlife we would not have been able to take such stunning photographs of the wildlife. Nico's careful organisation of our game drives meant we saw a huge number of animals and many varied landscapes. As for Nico's driving skills: they were exceptional.
We were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the food on our trip: particularly the hot lunches. We had expected to be eating paper bag lunches but instead dined like Kings and Queens (much to the envy of travellers with other Safari companies). We enjoyed the addition of wine and coffee with our lunches.
We had a wonderful first trip to Africa and would like to thank The Soul of Tanzania for providing us with such a rich experience.
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Email Viva | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
We know how important a safari operator is to your overall safari experiences and that's why we send our inquiries to over one hundred safari operators when we were planning our trip. Soul of Tanzania showed their extraordinariness from the beginning. The sales manager helped us to design our trip and she gave us a lot helpful suggestions.
When we arrived Arusha, they greeted us in the Hotel and introduced us to our guide Ben. They gave us a very detail brief about what we can expect during our trip. Even we are only a group of two, they gave us a brand new full sized safari vehicle. Our guide Ben was amazing, he ran everything smoothly and was exceptionally knowledgeable with almost all wildlife. He was quite passionate about safari and helped us to meet our targets (all big fives, rhinos and etc.) very efficiently. In addition, he found us a perfect place in the wild to enjoy the african sunset, we felt like we were in the movie "out of africa"!
Food is another highlight, while everyone else was eating a lunch box, we enjoyed our hot food , wine and coffee very much and received a lot of jealousies!
Overall, this is an amazing company and you won't be disappointed if you choose them.
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Email Shauni | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing safari
Hi,
Me and my friends had returned from an amazing safari we went to Tarangire and stayed for one night at sopa lodge it was incredible. The staff was really nice, food was good you had enough choice of what you wanted. And the rooms were amazing.
I must say that was an unforgettable experience. I am still can image how many incredible pictures we were lucky to take.
We want to thank you for helping us with everything even the many questions we had!
Special thanks to Francis!
PT
Email Maria | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Soul of Tanzania
5 incredible days of Safari in Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro:
It was an unforgettable experience!
Each park had its own beauty and always brought a surprise, mouth-opening moments of admiration. The variety of ecosystems and observing animals in harmony, it's as if you were the "Lion King in HD"!
The 5 days were perfect and enough! We managed to see the famous big 5, we really weren't expecting it!
On the last day we managed to cross off the rhinoceros from the list, although further away.
We saw so many lions, it was not my expectation at all, I thought it would be difficult to see them and that at most it would be from very far away, but the truth is that we saw groups of 7 lions, a lioness with her litter in the shade, a pair of juvenile lions landing next to the solar panel in Serengeti and 5 lionesses resting in the grass in camouflage, and so many others. And those weren't the only cats, a leopard resting in the tree, a camouflaged cheetah and two Serval cats.
We saw many elephants, in groups, others alone in incredible landscapes, in the 3 natural parks!
The animal that stuck in our minds the most was the hyena, with its majestic gait.
And a mental photograph was clearly the giraffes against the light on the road that connects Ngorongoro and Serengeti! A trip full of dust and full of adventure.
Moises, our guide was an incredible driver, we highly recommend any safari to be done with him, Moises had a GPS in his head and knew the tricks of the roads. We saw many cars stuck on the side of the road, sometimes with a flat tire, sometimes with a broken steering wheel. I was just wondering when will it be our turn? The roads are not at all friendly for cars, it takes a lot of esteem in the jeep and driving. It was interesting to realize that I had been going on safaris for over 20 years!
We really liked our guide!
The lunches always tasted good, and the camp experience was authentic!
I didn't expect so much quality and service in the middle of nowhere, it's impressive.
Sleeping with the sound of animals was very beautiful!
In short, a dream trip!
Finally, Filipa Pedrosa from The soul of Tanzania was very friendly and helpful, guiding our questions before booking the experience, which was a crucial point in giving us the trust and credibility of the company, as it is necessary to deposit the money before the trip.
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Email Inês Noronha | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect!
Our trip was perfect! We booked a 4 days Safari in Taragire, Ngorongoro and Serengeti, and everything was very well planned, and it exceeded our expectations.
Our guide, Marco, was incredibly knowledgeable about everything, not only identifying animals and their behaviours, but explaining everything about animals as well as tanzania’s culture and lifestyle. We were very lucky to saw all those amazing landscapes and all the animals.
After the safari, we spent 4 days in Zanzibar to complete the experience with some beach and relaxing days.
We highly recommend Soul of Tanzania, it was one of our favorite trips by far!!
