A2zebraexperience
- Located In:
- Size:
- 1-5 employees (Founded in 2021)
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $100 to $600 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Janine and Mirco | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari thanks to A-to-Zebra and our fantastic guide Musa!
We, a couple 27 and 29 years old, had an awesome 6-day trip through the Tarangire NP, the Serengeti NP, the Ngorongoro crater and the Lake Manyara Park with incredible views, diverse wildlife, comfy and safe lodges and good (although only rarely typically Tanzanian) food. Everything was organized perfectly well and the communication with the guide and A to Zebra organization was also very easy, friendly and with quick responses.
The HIGHLIGHT and the best about our trip was our safari guide Musa!! He is such a friendly, funny, polite, well-educated and intelligent guy and is always smiling. He told us tons about the life and wildlife in Tansania, was always helpful, relaxed and did everything to make us feel safe, comfortable and welcome. His German skills are tremendous - he talks fluently and with no limitations. We, on the other hand, could learn a few Swahili words from him :)
Asante sana, Musa! We'll come back for sure :)
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Email Andre | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
A wonderful Safari organized by A2ZebraExperience !
A wonderful safari organized by A2ZebraExperience
The advantage of this operator is that its director Mussa accepts discussion and negotiation when he prepares a safari especially for you. As we wanted, my wife and I, to devote a week to visiting the main parks around Arusha at the time of the beginning of the Great Migration, after an initial project suggested by Mussa we, ourselves and Mussa, brought several modifications because we wanted to visit all the parks during these 7 days and choose comfortable lodges. Despite our good level of English Mussa also proposed to change the guide initially planned, for another guide, Sam, very experienced and speaking perfectly French, our mother tongue, for better comfort and a better understanding of the life of the animals and the different cultures of the populations in these regions
First day, visit of the TARANGIRE park, with zebras, wildebeests, baboons, giraffes, a lioness and especially elephants who let themselves be approached a few meters away, even when they are with their young who have just been born, on condition of trust Samuel who knows how to predict if they are going to charge. The variety of landscapes in this park is exceptional. Night at the Burunge Tented Lodge in the very south of the park where elephants came to walk at night between the tents and were still there for breakfast
Second day, visit of the LAKE MANYARA park, with more elephants, zebras and baboons but above all herds of buffaloes who take a nap each standing in a different direction to ensure safety; unfortunately we did not see the lions in the trees, specialty of this park, but Sam explained to us the reason why, in this park only, the lions climb in the trees: the park is very wooded with tall wet grass and lions climb into trees to rest undisturbed by humidity and ants but also to get a better look at potential prey. Overnight at Lake Manyara Escarpment Lodge, superb lodge, with swimming pool and view of the lake, where everything was perfect.
Third day, a long way in the Masai country, in the conservation area of the Ngorongoro crater, to reach the entrance of the SERENGETI park and the "endless plains"; a few hundred meters after the entrance, a couple of lions who have isolated themselves to love each other… we sleep on the side of the road, we go crac-crac about once an hour and we go back to bed…. after Sam it can last a week and nothing bothers them, neither the 4x4s which all stop, nor the thousands of zebras, wildebeests and gazelles which graze closer and closer. A little further on, ponds full of hippos that don't smell very good, giraffes, gazelles (Thomson, Impala, de Grant...), buffaloes and we arrive at the Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp... barely average
Fourth day, we return to the entrance of Serengeti Park by other tracks and we come across a magnificent lion on top of the rocks, then we stop to admire four lionesses with their babies playing in the tall grass before going settling high on the rocks to better watch the surroundings, we come across buffaloes, wildebeest, zebras and arriving towards the exit of the park, always in the same place, our couple of lions in love who continue their wedding week. We leave the SERENGETI and we go to Lake Ndutu where we will stay 2 nights at the superb Lake Ndutu Luxury Lodge… great comfort and top food
Fifth day, departure in the early morning off-piste because here we are outside the parks and we have the right to approach the animals in any terrain. And it's an exceptional day that Sam made us live: in the morning meeting a mother cheetah who has just killed an antelope to feed her four cubs, who alternate food and games in the wheels of the 4x4s that surround them; mum, who watches the surroundings, comes to finish what is left of the antelope rather than leaving them to the marabouts who are waiting. Then meet a group of lions and return to the Lodge for lunch. Satisfied like the little cheetahs, we set off again in the afternoon to meet wildebeest, gazelles, zebras near the lake, giraffes and a group of five young lionesses and two sleeping young lions who bask in the sun and whom we can't wake up even by making noise in the middle of the group…I don't know what they ate but it must have been big. And returning to the lodge a leopard on a tree that begins to wake up and come down to go hunting after dark.
Sixth day, departure from the lodge to go to the Ngorongoro crater to see the black rhinoceros which is missing from our table for having seen the BIG FIVE; on the way we see a balloon taking off and above all the beginning of the Great Migration: a few million animals, especially wildebeest and zebras, but also antelopes with their young a few days old who run north like the big ones because they know that the still abundant grass will begin to run out here. It is a unique spectacle that should not be missed. A little further on the way to the crater we stop in a Masai village whose chief explains to us their way of life and the construction of houses by the women who own them, because the men are polygamous and live with one of their wives. In the crater there are all kinds of animals but we have already seen them all except the black rhinos which are only found here and we are lucky to meet them. We spend a freezing night at the Ngorongoro Crater Sanctuary Camp, far from everything very high in the mountain above the crater… without interest.
And on the seventh day back to Arusha and end of this safari, better than what we had dreamed of
As Mussa was waiting for us at our hotel so that we could give him our comments and our judgment on the 4x4, the guide, the lodges and if we would do the same safari again, if we had to do it again, we told him that we were totally satisfied but with a few recommendations:
- It is a bit tiring for 7 days to change lodges every day, arrive in the evening and leave the next morning and we suggested spending 2 successive nights in the same lodge when possible; for example to visit Tarangire and Lake Manyara one can visit Tarangire until 4:00 p.m. and, instead of going all the way out of the park to the far south, return by road to Lake Manyara Escarpment Lodge which is superb. And the next day we could visit Lake Manyara Park and return to the same lodge. We really enjoyed staying 2 nights in Ndutu.
- When we do the safari in the way we did, we see almost all the animals before arriving at the crater and sleeping at the Sanctuary Luxury Lodge has no interest. Next time we will spend two hours in the crater to see the rhinos and the atmosphere of the crater and we will return to sleep at Lake Manyra or even in Arusha.
But trust A2ZebraExperience and Mussa; Express your wishes… he will know how to satisfy them !
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Email Lena | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A2zebraexperience was the perfect operator for a family vacation.
On our trip we experienced a lot of different things and were able to get to know a lot of new things. We went to Africa for a family vacation. With 2 adults and 3 children of different ages. We did our safari tours with Musa, our guide. He can speak very good German, which made it easy for children to understand everything he explained to us.
On our journey through Tanzania we have collected a lot of new impressions.
I can honestly say that I would love to do this trip through Africa again. Because you can never see enough and discover something different and exciting every time.
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Email Michelle | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Musa is such a great tour guide.
Words cannot describe the feelings & emotions associated with my honeymoon vacation at the Safari.
I N C R E D I B L E !
I especially appreciate our phenomenal tour guide Mussa! He knew everything about all animals and nature phenomenons. I learned so much and enjoyed the trip like no other!
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Email Elisabeth | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
A amazing Safari with A2Zebra Experience to discover the Big Five
A great adventure thanks to the excellent organization of A2Zebra Experience and its guide Samuel who knew how to find the animals and share his passion with us.
A perfect circuit in the parks of Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and the Ndutu. An encounter often at 2 meters and in complete safety without seeming to disturb them with a large number of animals, elephants, giraffes, monkeys, antelopes, gazelles, hippos, buffaloes and even rhinos and leopard descending from his tree (rare during the day), ...and unforgettable scenes from life: amorous moment between a lion and a lioness, a walk of lionesses with their happy and playful cubs, a feast for an attentive mother cheetah and her babies, a gang of young lions basking in the sun, and for sure I forget some!
An ideal time in January to see the impressive migration where thousands of zebras and wildebeests with their newborn calves head north, the zebras leading the way, letting the wildebeest pass first and then bringing up the rear.
An unforgettable trip to do and to do it again thanks to the experience of our guide and the know-how of A2Zebra Experience.
