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
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Reviews
Perfect
I had an excellent time on this trip. Elias my driver went above and beyond and was always friendly and laughing along with the group. I was travelling solo but it didn’t feel that way at all between my other traveler and all of the staff. The sights we saw were once in a lifetime too!
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Email Arianna | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Suricata safari is great! Very organized, alwais kind and precise.
Our guide, Rocky is very competent, friendly and present. The food( by James, is very very good, various and plentiful.
Service really perfect.
Amazing experience!
FR
Email Julie | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
5 incredible days, which we will always remember! The parks of Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, Serengeti and Tarangire are sublime, all very different in the landscapes! 5 days are absolutely not too many!
We had taken the camping option. It was very good.
The Suricata team is the best and accompanied us wonderfully!
Our guide Amiri, made us discover the parks and the animals, always in a good mood. He was always hyper responsive.
Point that was extremely important for us, Amiri (our guide) was very respectful of the animals.
(We were able to see during our safari that this was not the case for all companies ....)
Salim, our chef, more than treated us at each meal (which were all incredible!). His always joyful mood helped make this stay so enjoyable.
We highly recommend going to Suricata! You can go there with your eyes closed!
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Super Safari with Suricata
We spent 5 wonderful days of Safari with Suricata. Our guide Amiri was very friendly and made us discover beautiful places and lots of animals. Our chef Salim prepared excellent dishes for us throughout our stay. We had taken the camping option and we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the tents made available. The organization is at the top of the pick-up at the airport at the end of the stay.
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NZ
Email Ryan Wolf | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The Suricata dream team made this the most unforgettable experience!
Wow what an unforgettable experience! I booked my six day private safari with Suricata Safaris online and I can say that when I come back with the rest of my family I will 100% be booking with them again.
So where to start, first off Chuke, what an absolute legend of a guy. I arrived in Arusha a day early and asked Suricata what I could do around town and they immediately organised Chuke to meet me the next day for a full tour of Arusha and also to fulfil a request of mine to donate to a local organisation in need. I’ve travelled personally to around 40 countries and Chuke is the best host I’ve ever had for a city tour. We spent a good part of the day helping a local childcare as I’d requested, which was amazing, and also we toured the city by car and on foot through markets, met a lot of locals and friends he knew personally that really added to the experience, had lunch at his favourite restaurant, this was a personal tour, not just your typical commercial style. Through a Chuke’s connections we even finished the day with a special rooftop view of Arusha that I can guarantee is not on any other tour’s list…Chuke was then my briefer for the Safari due to start the next day and just made the whole experience super smooth. There were no hidden catches or fees like happens so often, just exactly as described, which I loved. (And when I returned back from my safari Chuke was there at my hotel waiting, with a huge smile and a hug. He then made sure I was all sorted and my airport transfer (included) was setup as it needed to be. Honestly I didn’t need to worry about a thing).
The first morning of my Safari I was greeted with a warm smile at my hotel by my guide for the next six days ‘Golden’. When you’re travelling solo having a good rapport with your guide is so crucial and I knew straight away that this wasn’t going to be an issue. First stop was Tarangire National Park which was epic and so well worth it. Golden knew all the best spots, often taking me locations not frequented by the other jeeps to find ‘hidden treasures’ of the park. (This continued all week).
Along the way to Serengeti we picked up our personal chef for the six days Jeremiah (yes I was very spoilt!). Over the next six days he produced restaurant quality three course meals breakfast lunch and dinner on his own that simply blew my mind. He even baked fresh bread over charcoal morning and night, the food was so so good I made him give me some recipes to take home. It was a bit of a running joke that other tour guides didn’t want to sit their clients next to us at the picnic lunch spots because while they had their cardboard boxed lunches, we had three course restaurant quality! The other guides didn’t want their clients asking why they didn’t have what we had!
Once we got to Serengeti we were lucky to have three nights four days to really experience the park. Like Golden said, many people come to Serengeti, but very few really experience what it has to offer. We drove far and wide, away from the hustle of central Serengeti and man did it pay its rewards. We saw the ‘big five’ but so so much more. Countless up close and personal experiences with lions, and also Cheetahs and Leopards (and everything else) that can’t be found without an extremely knowledgeable guide. I have absolutely no doubt that this experience would not have been what it was if I didn’t have Golden as my guide. If you’re going Suricata, you want Golden. Trust me.
On my last day in Ngogorogoro Crater, everyone was on the hunt for a Rhino when we arrived in the morning, no guides had found one. Golden drove us straight to a location and within a minute found two rhinos, the only sighting that day and soon enough we were surrounded by a dozen cars all asking where to see them. Very cool to be in that team.
On my way home I’d even shown an interest in purchasing Tanzanite and Golden personally took me into Arusha in his own time to make sure I didn’t get ripped off and got a good deal.
It was genuinely a sad day saying goodbye to Chuke, Golden and Jeremiah. I don’t normally write reviews but I just had such a great experience with these guys that I felt it needed it, and also I know how hard/scary it can be booking online from overseas when you have no idea what the company is like. I’ve just done that work for you.
And also the value for money was exceptional in my opinion. Others I met couldn’t believe the great price I paid compared to them and they didn’t get the perks I did!
Suricata all the way. Thank me later.
Asante sana - Suricata - best experience ever!!!
We booked a 5-day tour with Suricata, and first and foremost, a huge shout-out to our guide Lewis💪, who went above and beyond to make this trip an incredible experience. Lewis knows all the national parks very well—we visited Tarangire, Lake Manyara, the Serengeti, and the Ngorongoro Crater with him. He is an excellent and experienced driver and guide, and we never felt unsafe! Lewis did everything he could to bring us closer to his country, especially its nature—we saw the "Big Five" of Africa with him, and much more beyond that. Asante sana, Lewis!
Communication with Suricata was absolutely transparent, professional, and smooth from the planning stage. They organized the transport from the airport, and we were able to express our preferences for tour routes and hotel selections beforehand.
Another highlight was staying at Suricata’s Boma Lodge, beautifully located at Lake Manyara. All the staff there were amazing and very helpful.
You can tell that the entire Suricata team does their work with great joy and passion, especially among the guides, who have a wonderful friendship — many greetings to Lewis, Amiri, Mandela, Daniel, and Mr. T!
Staying in the tented lodges was a true adventure for us; nowhere else can you experience nature more authentically!
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Email Nassim | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari in Serengeti,Ngorongoro and lake Manyara
With my wife we took a 4 days safari tour with Suricata safari which include
Manyara lac, Serengeti park ,Ngorongoro crater.
Our guide was Max he was fantastic thanks again, many thanks also to the cook Samson who prepared our meals every day from breakfast to diner.
Thanks also to Mr T and Daniel who did the briefing for the beginning of the safari for the first day and final day at ou return.
I recommend this tour.
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Email Edoardo | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic !!!
Everything was good! From the pick up from Arusha airport to leave 🥲 Arusha !
The first mention for the first beefiest with Daniel, really useful to understand better the situation, what being with us and what “directions” follow during the stay.
The Suricata lodge in front of lake Maniara is a really high level with a very kind and friendly staff!
Our driver for first day was Mandala and he is a really nice guy with a big knowledge of the animals! The other driver, our Guy, Mr. Max is an excellent and friendly pilot . A note to thanks him, when the battery stopped to work in the middle of Ngorongoro Park, he immediately repaired it! Great!!!
Another positive note for the chef, he cooked for us a lot of good dishes during our 4 lunches, mixed traditional food with also pasta 🍝 and pizza 🍕 🇮🇹.
One of the Best night in my life in the lodge in the middle of Serengeti.. what a night!
Thank you guys… SURICATA FOREVER!
See you soon
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Email Giuseppe | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing adventure in real africa
4 days adventure in the 3 major park of tanzania. Me and my girlfriend foud a really nice group of 30 yo guys. In total we were 6 in the safari car + the driver/guide with years of experience. He can answer to every question about animals and nature.
The 3 nights in camping were an adventure in the middle of tanzanian parks. You could find a zebra outside the tend. A chef will cook different fresh meals everyday lunch dinner and breakfast. You will find your tend ready every night.
We saw all the major animals from a very near view.
At the end of the adventure we come back with a lot of fantastic experience and new friends.
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Email CECILIA | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Everything perfect
In our 4 days of Safari, everything was perfect, from our driver Mandela, really professional, to our cooker James. Kindly recommended.