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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If preferred, you can contact the operator directly
Reviews
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Email Andrea | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience
We had 5 days safari with our guide Damian and it was really amazing. Thanks to his expertise we managed to see all big 5 and lived very special moments of game drive. Also the food made by Tito was delicious and various, very appreciated.
In few words, we definitely recommend Suricata Safaris.
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Email Jeremiah | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Suricata Safari's is the absolute best in Tanzania!
Suricata Safari's was absolutely amazing! The amount of animals and action we saw was so memorable ♥️ Damon our guide was very knowledgeable of the animals and the areas they might appear. We witness all 5 game animals over the course of the 5 day tour which is extremely rare but was possible thanks to Suricata Safari's. Daniel did an outstanding job as well preparing and organizing the tour briefings before and after the tour. Tito our personal chef made delicious breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day and always changed it up! All in all the team for Suricata Safari's is #1 in my book and I would happily recommend them to anyone wanting to go on a Safari adventure in the near future. Thank you!
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Email Tita | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best tour operator for Safai in Tanzania
Me and my husband went for a 4 days tour with Suricata and it was the best decision we have made. They are very professional since the day one when we were looking for information, they answered us very fast and clear with a proper information. Once we decided to book with them everything were smooth from the payment process to pre departure information until the pick up arrangement. On the arrival day they were also amazing, pick up on time with a good proper car - arrive to the hotel - hotel booked with clean big room and a good briefing of the tour we are about to do. Four days tour , we had the best guide, Barrakka, he was very professional with all the good knowledges of the safari and driving skills. Our four days went by so fast and it was amazing and memorable thanks to Barrakka and all the team from the office , the cooking teamamd cheft Tito and the accommodations preparing team- the foods we had every day were great considering that we are camping in the middle of National Park we still had a great cook clean meal, ( Big thanks to them for lunch we got a cooked meal served not just a snack box ) everytime we arrived at the camp the tent was there ready for us to jump in we don’t need to wait or make the tent ourself. Everything went perfectly until the last minute of our tour. I think i have said enough so you are deciding which safari tour you should go with - definitely Suricata. We loves every moment we spent on these days. It’s our 1st safari experience and we love it. 100% recommended !!
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Email Paul | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Baraka 5 stars guide
Remarkable experience thanks to our guide Baraka. He looked after us from day 1, very knowledgeable on all animals and guess what we got to see the big 5 in just 4 days. I had such hard time choosing the Safari tour but this one is by far the best decision. Thank you Baraka and chef Tito !
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!
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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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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!