Hilary and Martin - owners of Suricata Safaris
Suricata Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2016)
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $190 to $600 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 Hallvard | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful 5-day safari experience
Our 5-day safari with Suricata included everything we could hope for and more. Everything from planning to execution the safari went very smooth. Our guide showed his great experience throughout the safari by amazing spotting and providing us with the best possible positions to watch these awesome animals. Constantly being at the right place at the right time is not just luck, and we were incredibly happy to have Vincent as our guide. The chef (Tito) served delicious meals every day. The chef and guide provided optimal conditions to enjoy the safari. As a bonus we were lucky to be in a very good company with four amazing tourists, creating the perfect atmosphere.
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Email Marie S | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Would recomend to friends and family
Would for sure use surikata safari againg if we come back for another safari. Don't think you can get more value for money anywhere else. All safaries cost a lot, but it is a fair price for what you get. Well organized and professional staff. Nothing really went wrong, and all agreements were followed trough. Our guide Vincent was the best we could ask for. Perfect english and eagle eyes that can spot an animal miles away. Our chef Tito made amazing meals, and the best breakfast. Feel so lucky we saw all animals we hoped for and more, but I guess "luck" has a lot to do with the great guide.
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Email Theran | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
I love this company!
Great company! This is my 2nd time using this company. Highly recommend.
Email Jake | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome safari experience!
Absolutely fantastic trip with Suricata Safaris! Did a five day camping group tour, lead by our amazing guide Vincent, highly recommended if you can get him. He was super knowledgable, friendly, helpful and made such an effort to ensure we got to see as many animals as possible. Camping amongst the animals was a once in a lifetime experience! Booking the trip was super easy, and they were great with arranging the logistics like airport transfers; everyone in the company I dealt with was great.
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Email Joona | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An unforgettable experience!
Took a two-night, three-day tent safari to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro with my wife. Staying in tents in the middle of nature, where even the wild animals roamed freely. The camp was visited at night by e.g. Hyenas, zebras, giraffes and on the morning of the last day two elephants! The guide was Rocky who was a really nice guy who knew a lot about animals, nature and the Masai culture. Musa was the cook on the trip, who conjured up unimaginably great dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I would not have even thought that such dishes could be made in the savannah. We did get the adventure of a lifetime and an unforgettable trip. Worth every penny and effort. Through Suricata, it was also possible to arrange cheaper taxi rides etc. for own expenses after the Safari. Customer service worked 10+ in every situation. Can't help but recommend!
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Email Melissa & Sharon | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Absolutely amazing safari tour company!
Every single person we dealt with, from the Owen Hilari, Manager Ali, transfer drive Eli and our guide George we’re friendly, attentive and welcoming. Our guide was particularly knowledgeable, passionate, caring and fun - thank you again for an unforgettable experience George!
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Email SC | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience
We had a great experience with Suricata Safari. They responded quick and organised everything for us. Jimmy, our driver was great! He‘s fun and always answered all our questions and stopped everytime we asked him to. Thanks to him we got to see the big 5 really close up.
Pius, the chef was great aswell. His cooking was so great! Always something different each day.
We did the camping Safari. One night there were Zebras right next to our tent and some Elephants just a few steps further down, drinking from the camps watertank. In the morning during sunrise you could see some Giraffes feeding on the camps trees. Spectacular view!
If we come back, we‘ll book with Suricata Safari again!
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Email Christoph | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazong Tour with james
My girlfriend and I booked a 3 days safari trip- serengeti and Ngorongoro. The safari was amazing. We saw all big five.
Our tour guide James made sure we enjoyed our trip and was fun to have around. Our chef Pius always surprised us with the dish he would prepare.
I would highly recommend surocata Safaris for your safari trip.
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Email Yvette Clark | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
This was the trip of a lifetime!
SURICATA
My son sent me a round trip ticket to Tanzania, but I was reluctant to go. Three days traveling? Forget that I would be traveling business with Qatar, I had been feeling every day of my seventy-eight years.
I began reviewing the vast number of safari companies online. I made a list of the parks I wanted to visit and the minimum number of days it would take to accomplish. I reviewed my budget and found four companies that fit the parameters of cost and destinations. I emailed each one.
They all answered promptly. I was drawn to Suricata and was soon What’s Apping Hilary, Suricata’s representative.
Hilary was efficient, polite and very professional. I was able to contact him at all hours despite the seven hour difference in time. He provided me with essential information. I paid the required deposit via a credit card. Hilary assured me a driver would pick me up at the Kilimanjaro airport even though I would not be staying in a hotel.
Coming from a culture of fault-finding, judgement, never being satisfied, skepticism and criticism. I had to suspend lifelong habits and view my experience from a new perspective. I have nothing negative to say about my African experience. Not a thing! This is very alien to me. But here I go.
Skeptical me, was pleasantly surprised to find Ellis, from Suricata, at the airport. With a smile and reassurance, he was easily delivered me to my son’s residence.
Hilary and I met at the 4 Points Sheraton, an old hotel proudly touting Hemingway as one of its guests. Set amidst lush gardens, very regal and quite staid, the hotel reminded me of colonial days.
Hilary surprised me. First, he’s young. I do not usually trust young people. But Hilary has a reassuring air about him. He is a very enthusiastic and energetic young man. He keeps his word and is incredibly responsible. Everyone in his company is ultra-punctual, very amiable and kind.
My experience with Suricata was unique. Having traveled to India, Nepal, Tibet, Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco, Central and a few countries in South America, I considered myself a little experienced in foreign travel. Never had I encountered the kindness, punctuality, professionalism and excellent service I received at Suricata.
Our tents were set up by the crew. Tito was in charge of the preparation of our home-cooked meals, prepared with fresh vegetables and fruits, tasty and colorful and very nutritious. My fellow travelers and I dined at a table set under the stars and toasted with local wine.
We slept in tents, serenaded to the sounds of laughing hyenas , who needed no wine to chat the entire night. Sounds in the camp, next day turned out to be zebras roaming about and leaving the remnants of their visit scattered throughout the grounds. I was in Africa! The experience of my lifetime.
Max, our driver, never faltered and tried his best to find the creatures we had traveled so far to see – elephants, lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, giraffes, water buffalo, impalas, hippopotamus, gazelles, baboons, wildebeest, warthogs, zebra, ostriches, and so many others, I haven’t the space or memory to mention. Each one astonishing and found only in Africa. Usually, zoos and circuses are the only places these animals can be seen. Here they roam wild in these incredible parks – Tarangire, Serengeti, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater. Each park is beautiful and distinct. To find these rare and magnificent creatures in their habitat, unfettered and wild gives hope for the future of the world. They have inhabited this earth for millennia and deserve to enjoy their homes, their freedom.
Africa, the birthplace of our ancestors, is even today a breathtaking continent. It is huge and beautiful and harsh, inscrutable and yet glorious.
No one should die without having visited the birthplace of humanity. Africa, once experienced, will change you forever. The peoples are kind and warm and smile and dance, despite the suffering they have endured for centuries.
Suricata is a testament to that warmness and kindness and joy that abides in the hearts of its people. Until my last breath, I will remember the plains of Africa, bumping along the roads on safari, trying to get a glimpse of a lion or a leopard resting in a tree, a giraffe nibbling on treetop leaves, or an elephant cooling off in a mud hole.
I absolutely loved Africa! My experience in Africa eclipses my other trips. I am grateful to Hilary, his excellent company, Suricata (meaning “lemur”) and my son for insisting on this trip and for facilitating my visit. I wish everyone In Tanzania many blessings for the wonders they provide the world by preserving these glorious and well-maintained parks filled with wildlife, found exclusively in their country.
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Email Harrison | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Professional, polite, and knowledgeable
wanted to do a last minute safari and Suricata helped me fit in Tarangire and Lake Manyara for a reasonable price! They are very professional and knowledgeable about the animals. The food was great! The only problem is that I couldn't stay longer! (had to leave because of work