The Matoke Tours Team
Matoke Tours
- Located In:
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Netherlands
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2002)
- Member Of:
- ATTA, AUTO, SGR, UTB & UCF
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $300 to $750 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Email Marc Dankloff | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A well organised safari with special features, excellent lodges and a great guide / driver.
Matoke Tours in Uganda prepared an excellent safari package for our family. Highlights were the guided Chimp tracking, guided crater lake hike including tea plantations and village visit, a guided loin tracking tour off the beaten tracks with a Lion expert. On our game drives in Kibale, Queen Elisabeth NP, Ishasha and Bwindi we saw lots of lions, herds of elephants, an occasional leopard. Highlight of our tour was definitely the gorilla track in Bwindi, impenetrable forest, were we came eye to eye with a silverback and his family. What an amazing creatures! Further worth mentioning that we stayed at excellent safari lodges whereby Katara Lodge, Mutanda Lodge and Mihingo Lodge are worth mentioning for their good dinners and great accommodation facilities as well as their amazingly scenic locations. WMatoke provided a guide and driver Anatoli, who appeared knowledgeable about Uganda, wild life and local environment, but was above all a very pleasant chap with a great sense of humour. We laughed a lot with him and he comes well recommended for anyone who want to visit Uganda. What an amazing country and excellent safari experience.
ES
Email Aldo | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great experience in a great location
These guys have been always helpful, friendly and profesional. They offered us different options for our trip to Uganda and do the gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable forest. The location where the hotel is, is perfect, just by the lake Mutanda. You can have swim at the lake just after trekking. The rooms/tents were confortable and with all the facilities we needed. A balcony viewing the lake just made the experience unforgettable. And what to say about their staff, they are amazing!! Special thanks to Emmanuel and Alex who made this trip more than special.
Very much recommended if you are thinking on doing a gorilla tracking in Uganda.
NL
Email Manfred | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Marvellous Tanzania
After arrival at Arusha AirPort our guide Elias welcomed us and brought us to the Kiboko Lodge. This is a result of the Watoto foundation and the next day we were very glad to visit this children supporting organisation. Also we started our 9 days safari in the northern parks. Elias was a safe, nice and very experienced guide and cared very well for his customers. The accomodations were very well selected by Matoke, the friendliness and the welcoming everywhere were outstanding. After this period we had a flight to Selous and stayed there for 4 days. So close to the Rufijiriver with stunning sunsets we had a wonderful stay in the camp. Here too only careful and friendly people, making our stay unforgettable. The safari is a little different: walking, boating and driving. After this stay we moved by an other small airplane to Zanzibar, were we stayed at the Next Paradise Resort, a really excellent and beautiful choice with fantastic swimming pool and outstanding service. Matoketours did a marvellous job in organising our trip and we surely can recommand them.
BE
Email Danielle | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Our experinece with Matoke eqauls= a well contacted organised operator.
They have anough local contacts, use local personnel and that is why we have already asked them twice to organise our trip.
NL
Email Martijn and Laurine Otten | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible experience
We had such a wonderful time. We went on our honeymoon with a private driver/guide (Mike) through Uganda for a week and then chilled in Zanzibar for another 4 days. Everything was perfectly organised and the lodges (luxury version) were the nicest places we ever stayed in. Our guide took very good care of us and shortly briefed us at the end of every day so we knew what to wear and what to expect the next day.
This has been our best vacation in our lives as of yet. Uganda is very special due to the close proximity of different types of landscapes. We saw everything from chimps to elephants, zebra's, warthogs, gorilla's, crocodiles, hundreds of different types of incredible birds, many different species of Antelope, and on our last day on Zanzibar even humpback whales which was breathtaking. When in Zanzibar we recommend to also take an Island tour with one of the local people as you see and can do more and it is not as pricey to do with the lodge.
In Queen Elizabeth Natural Park we were not lucky enough to see any Lions or Leopards however we were only there for a 1,5 day and that gives us a good reason to go back.
All in all we highly recommend going on a tour with Matoke
BE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A unique experience
A great way to explore another culture, nature and wildlife in Uganda. This is the best way to see lots of the country. There's plenty of (optional) activities so you won't ever be bored. Through hiking you'll even see more of Uganda's fascinating nature. We had a great driver who knew a lot about Uganda's history, wildlife, culture and so on. We learned a lot from him and he was always very helpful and friendly. Matoke Tours helps you to adjust the program (if necessary) according to your wishes. The lodges were very beautifully located, the service was great.
A trip we definitely recommend!
Matoke made our Tanzania trip a wonderful experience
Great advice. Quick service. We already had a good pre-experience with Matoke advice. And our Safari through the NP's of Arusha, Tarangire, Manyara, Ngorongoro and Serengeti only confirmed. Combined with a great stay at Zanzibars Stone town and beaches. Wonderful.
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Perfect Uganda experience, couldn't wish for better!
In may 2015 we (mother and daughter) travelled together for 12 days through Uganda in a tour organized by Matoke tours. Our driver/guide picked us up at the airport and guided us through all national parks and destinations that 12 days. Perfect organization of the trip, very professional and helpful, very well equipped (jeep), always in time and our guide (Caleb, fluently English) was able to make any adaptations to the program when needed. Matoke Tours is able to set up a personal travel program, which was adjusted to our own preferences of travelling. Previously to our trip, our contact with Matoke Tours was easy and questions were answered in a few hours by email. Matoke Tours seems to know the accommodations in Uganda very well and knows the differences between and in the accommodations.
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
We found Matoke Tours to be excellent in organising the tour that suited us.
Our tour was exactly how we had hoped and more from the National Parks we visited to the fantastic accommodation that was organised by them and the overall service. We highly recommend Matoke Tours, you can't go wrong by using their services, just tell them what you would like and they will organise your tour accordingly.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our family trip to Uganda was amazing, the landscape is stunning and interesting.
Matoke tours provided our family with an amazing holiday. The trip was really good value for money, accommodation was fantastic, much better than we thought it would be, we stayed in one place surrounded by hippos grunting all night! Our driver for whole tour was so helpful and polite, he really went out of his way to make sure we saw all wildlife possible. Seeing Gorrillas in their natural dwindling habitat was a highlight we will never forget and also trekking through the forest with Chimpanzees. We saw so may different birds I lost count ,a birders paradise. The people of Uganda are very polite and friendly it is such an interesting country.