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Explorers Wild Adventures
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- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2015)
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $25 to $100 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Minna | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Highly recommend
Our daughter, 1.5years old , came with us in this amazing adventure. She had so much fun with the giraffes, elephants, zebras, the lions, etc... everything was very safe, including the optional boat ride for seeing hippos.
Our adventure had many highlights, but one of them was definitely our guide . Mr Jeoffrey was super kind with our baby and with our needs. We have stopped to get diapers almond the way and we were also given family accomodation in all Locations. There was always enough of sleep and enough of adventure.
We definitely recommend this tour. For us with a little child 6 days of adventure are enough. In addition to this experience, we have also spent 1 day in Nairobi (national park, giraffes, baby elephants) and additional 5 days in Mombasa. The train connection was very easy and comfortable.
Overall the the habitants of Kenya are some of the most friendly people out there.
Definitely a must in the journey for discovering Africa!
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Email Gaetano | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Safari
Excellent a Safari experience!!
Our 6-days safari was amazing and Wild explorer made our adventure unforgettable. Special thanks to our driver / guide David which took care of us from day1.
Top value for money. Strongly recommend!
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Email Wolf | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Unique experience - thanks to Explorers Wild Adventures!
Our safari with Explorers Wild Adventures was a unique experience. The coordination in the planning was excellent, Johann suggested a great tour for us and responded specifically to our plans by organizing a train ticket to Mombasa with a shuttle to our beach hotel afterwards. Even before departure, we were able to assure ourselves once again that we had made a good choice: at the counter I noticed that I had forgotten to apply for the eTA. What normally takes up to 3 days was accelerated to 1.5 hours by Johann and his visa team with good contacts, so that we were still able to make our flight - thanks again for that!
When we arrived at the airport in Nairobi, Bernard welcomed us and accompanied us for the 6 day tour through the Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Amboseli Park. On the drive through the country he told us a lot about life and culture in Kenya and we got along brilliantly. He has often demonstrated his driving skills on the slopes and thanks to his friendly nature and good networking with locals and other drivers, he has always been able to offer us the best experiences. The entire animal world: lions and elephants that passed directly in front of the van, rhinos, hippos... but also the impressive flora, Bernard always knew the answers to our questions thanks to his many years of experience.
We also really liked the selection of lodges. We would like to highlight the “Mara Empiris” which gave us a very familiar welcome and impressed us with typical local dishes. We visited the Masai village with the Masai "Moniku", who works in the Lodge, and were able to get an idea of traditional life there.
In short: we couldn't have asked for a better guide than Bernard, who grew on us with his always friendly and open nature, and we couldn't have imagined a better company than Explorers Wild Adventures, whose team fulfilled all of our wishes.
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Email Robert | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
This is a professionally run safari with great value.
We were completely happy with every aspect of our safari. Our guide, David, was very knowledgeable about the wildlife and was always eager to impart that information to us. He is the guides’ guide as he often told other drivers where to go look for the animals. I’m so amazed how he can spot an animal hidden far away as he drove. He’d stop and tell us where to look and sometimes it took us 10-15 minutes with binoculars to find the animal. He’d go to any length possible to make our adventure the best possible one. He also knows how animals behave and will park at a spot where he knows the animal will walk towards. He’ll beat other drivers to getting the best viewing spot. Also he’ll park where you’ll get the best angle photographically and tell you if a video would be better and he’s right.
Originally we booked a minivan but upgraded to a Land Cruiser and were glad we did. About 90% of the safari vehicles in Maasai Mara and Amboselli National Parks were Land Cruisers. We used an open top minivan with another operator in Nairobi national park and got stuck in wet mud on one section. We had to wait until another vehicle came by to use a bungee cord to pull our minivan out. Land Cruisers with their four wheel drive are much less likely to get stuck and the seating is more spacious then the minivans.
We also upgraded to a private safari which is good because we can tell David however long we want to stay at any given viewing spot. Often the drives are hours long and one time after eating something bad I had to tell David to pull over so I could use a “bush toilet.” I would have been embarrassed if I had to do so with a shared safari packed with strangers.
We were wary about doing the optional Lake Nakuru 2 hour boat ride and nature walk after reading reviews. But we were glad we did. You can see hippos much closer on the boat and you can walk to about 20 feet from wildlife.
We did the optional Massai village tour and it was interesting to see and learn how they live. However, we did have a bad taste at the end when we were led into their market area where we were subject to overly aggressive sales tactics for souvenirs vastly overpriced by multiples over what you can pay anywhere else for the exact same items.
We help support the massai with the “donation” fee for admission on the front end and to subject their guests to a rude ending doesn’t really help their cause in the long run. Then again, the massai aren’t known for being good business people.
Neither the Maasai village, boat/nature walk or balloon excursions had anything to do with Wild Adventures. They just dropped us off at those places if we wanted to do those excursions and we paid those places without Wild Adventures being a middleman.
We did the balloon ride over Amboselli which lasted about 1.25 hours at $450 per person. It was ok, but we didn’t see too many animals and the view of mt Kilimanjaro was not much different from 500 feet up. Personally I thought the balloon went too high because the few animals we saw were too small and far away. I’d rather see animals from just above tree height, which I’m told is the case at the massai Mara balloon ride.
We upgraded to the Sentrim chain lodgings and they were clean and comfortable. They consist of single rustic bungalow buildings. The food was buffet style and tasty with a decent variety. I did get an upset stomach but neither my two family members nor David did so go figure. Wild Adventures provided ample water during the game drives and the lodgings put a 500 ml bottle for each guest in the room, which we used to brush our teeth as tap is not completely potable.
One of the sentrim properties only had electricity available from 5-7 am and 6-10 pm so overnight charging wasn’t available. Not all sentrim properties had outlets compatible with US plugs so we still needed our adapters sometimes. All the lodgings had hot showers and flushing toilets.
We highly recommend using Explorers wild Adventures as they are a professionally run operation geared to high client satisfaction.
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Email Ting | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great, attentive, friendly and helpful
The 7days six nights safari was once in a lifetime experience for me and really worth for the money. Staff of the company were helpful and communicated well with us. Our driver and guide Zachary was very friendly and cheerful. He made sure everything was fine and well prepared for us during the trip. He provided us a lot of information and tried to find us as many wildlife as possible . We were very happy and thankful for all the help and arrangement.
JP
Email Takahiko | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Remarkable Safari
I joined a 7-day private safari tour. Our driver and guide, Zachary, was very kind and managed the time according to our preferences.
During the safari, we were able to see all the animals we wanted to see.
Thank you for the wonderful safari experience provided over these 7 days.
CH
Email Anne-Lise | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best tour operator
We went on the "5-Day Masai Mara-Lake Nakuru-Lake Naivasha & Hells Gate" private tour option Jeep 4*4 with Explorers wild Adventures and we could only recommend it. Johann the operation manager has been helping us, planning and tailoring our trip providing us all information we needed. Johann also helped us with the online pre-payment which did not go through straight away as blocked but after calling our bank it worked well! Once we arrived we met KennetH, who has been an amazing guide, always in a great mood and answering every single question we had about the Kenyan culture and animals. Kenneth was also incredible to spot the Big 5! Already on the first game drive evening we saw many animals including 4 of the Big 5.
It was our first safari and could not have wished for more ! We definitely recommend Explorers Wild Adventures for a Safari in Kenya and would reserve again with them for the next one !
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Email Mark | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A trip to remember
Pickup from hotel was smooth and on time, communication via WhatsApp. George the driver and guide with more than 20 years experience really made the trip memorable. He knew where to spot wildlife before other vehicles did. The first full day in the Mara, 4 of the Big 5 were spotted due to his expertise. Glad I booked the jeep, very roomy and the best option for the rugged terrain. All lodges visited were great, food was buffet style., accommodations comfortable. Amboseli could do with a little touchup. Thanks again George.