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Northern Circuit Adventure
- Located In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- TATO & TTB
- Tour Types:
- Small & medium group tours (Budget & mid-range)
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $195 to $580 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Martin (from Argentina) | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
absolutely fantastic experience, we asked for Spanish guide and they gave us this. the guide was very friendly with too much experiences about safari and animals. about the food, they ask me what I would like to eat, really fresh food and very good cook very friendly too. about accommodation we pay for a tent, really nice, the tents have a mattress inside so this was comfortable. thanks for everything
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Email Eva | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari, but sometimes a bit wet.
We were 6 people on a 4 day safari. We had a great guide and a great chef who were very helpful. We had a very good time on the gamerides and saw all the animals we had wanted to as well as the great migration. The only downside was that the camping equipment wasn't fully capable of handling the rainy season, so we had 1-2 wet nights. Our guide and chef were very helpful when this happened, but I still think it would be a good idea to upgrade the camping equipment to avoid this in the future.
Reply from Northern Circuit Adventure
Posted on Dec 22, 2015Hello Eva ,
Greetings from Northern Circuit Adventure Team and it was nice to have your safari feedback! We are very sorry to hear about the camping equipment's but as we know the time you were here it was short rainy season and we cannot control nature and when it comes the situation like this in the Serengeti it is a bit difficult even if you have a new equipment's but it all sort it out!
Thanks for your kind support and we assured our future clients that all of our camping equipment's are upgrading.
Northern Circuit Adventure Team
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Email Sreedhar | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Simply Amazing Memories !!
Probably our best holiday ever!! Full marks to Northern Circuit Adventure and its team for the perfect organization and coordination of the whole safari program.
From the time we landed in Kilimanjaro airport, till the time we exited Tanzania, everything was taken care of, and we had to barely worry about a thing..!
We were received on time from Kliimanjaro airport, and the 2-day accommodation that comes along with the Safari package was very comfortable - one can definitely know its value after a tiresome flight into Tanzania and after a few improper sleeps during safari days!!
Throughout the 5-days, the food cooked was simply mindblowing. Never ever did we think that we could get so delicious food at our campsites. Surprising that the cook even managed to prepare some Indian food too at times !!! :D
And, for the main part, Elias, our guide who took us around inside the national parks, he was truly awesome - in every sense of the word..!! Very soft spoken - but so alert to things happening around - and very knowledgeable about the places that were in our safari plan, he made sure that we got to see all the Big-5 animals - Black rhino, buffalo, herds of elephants, about 15 lions with even a Lion King pose, leopards (a baby leopard too), hosts of zebras, giraffes, elephants, a variety of birds including flamingoes - not to forget the Dung Beetle too!!
"Truly Memorable" - is an understatement - of an amazing vacation that me and my friends had during our time at Tanzania - full marks to Northern Circuit Adventure and its team for having helped realize our dreams!! :-)
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Email Hardy | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Fantastic trip with wonderful guide and chef
I went on a 4-day budget (camping) safari to Lake Manyara, Ngorogoro and Serengeti with Northern Circuit. I had booked thru Tropical Islands vacations, but then Northern Circuit conducted the trip. I couldn't have been happier with the way it turned out.
Our guide, Elias, was simply fantastic, both as a guide and as a person. He was very knowledgable with all the animals as well as culture and history. He always seemed to know what the group was interested in seeing and doing (without us actually telling him). He spent extra time with us on evening game drives and he went out of his way several times to track and show us more animals (or to let us take the 500th photo of that zebra, when we'd taken 499 already from every possible angle but that single one). He had a peaceful and kind way of doing the safari, without ever being boring. We felt that he was genuinely interested in making this a special trip for us and that he was himself fond of the area and the animals.
Our chef, Sweetbart, was a lively and very likable guy. He cooked us amazing dishes in these rather limited facilities. It was always plentyful and all his dishes seemed to have a personal touch. They were always a bit more than your regular safari food. Actually, it was some of the best food I had in 2 months in EA.
Organization and handling (setting up tents, leaving on time, etc.) was also superb.
I honestly cannot think of anything I disliked about the trip. Of course, the stunning environment and animals also help in making this a unique experience.
I can strongly recommend doing a safari with Elias and Sweetbart.
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Email Richard | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Garden of Eden
I have booked my 6-day Tanzania budget joining group safari with Northern Circuit Adventure in advance before departing from Europe. The manager - Michael - was able to reply promptly to my e-mails and tailored our trip according to our needs.
We visited: Lake Manyara NP, Tarangire NP (home of tse-tse flies, be ready), Serengeti NP and Ngorongoro Crater (the temperature dropping below zero during the night on the crater rim).
The number of fellow-travellers in a car varied from two to four persons.
We stayed at Clouds View Hotel the night before and after the safari. The place was OK. While still in Arusha, we took an interesting Coffee Plantation Tour also organized by Michael.
Ratings:
Booking process/communication: 10/10.
Safari organization/logistics: 10/10.
Driver/guide: 10/10. Elias, very communicative and funny.
Vehicle: 10/10. Pop-up roof Toyota Landcruiser 4WD.
Sleeping: 9/10. Permanent tents with beddings outside the parks, tents with matresses inside the parks. You should bring your own mosquito net.
Food: 10/10. We had our own cook named Bruno travelling with us -- the food was extra-class. Don't forget to buy enough water before your safari starts.
Number and variety of animals seen: 10/10. We were able to see all the Big 5 game.
Overall African experience: 10/10
FYI: Be aware in Tanzania they don't accept US dollar bills issued 10 or more years ago! If you try to use them to pay for anything (your safari, bus ticket, in currency exchange) they're gonna tell you it's a fake money. Experienced this behavior multiple-times.
This was my first time in Africa and I consider it my best vaccation ever. I can recommend Northern Circuit Adventure to all of you.
If you're interested please see my pictures from the trip: https://goo.gl/photos/4zfekxXzufmwQWT3A
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Email Magnus | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Northern Circuit Adventure in deed!
We had 4 great days on safari with northern circuit. Our guide had fantastic knowledge about the animals mowements on Serengeti and this made ut possible to se all the wild animals we had been dreaming about seeing for so long. We saw Giraffes, Hippis, Lions, Leopards, A rhino, Cheetahs, Elephants, Zebras, Wildebeest, Impalas and so on. Our Safari was during the great migration, it was great to see!
Our chef was great to, and we had some fantastic meals in the wild. Also, NCA offered great service, picking us up in the airport in Arusha.
I would definetively recommend a safari with NCA, and the time of year we went was perfect for us, not to hot and we got to see a lot of cool animals!
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Email Mollie | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It was okay...
My partner and I are budget travellers, but decided to spend a little extra money to make a safari with Northern Adventure Circuit because of their glowing reviews, unfortunately, we did not get what we expected for the money.
Let's start with the positives:
1. Our guide Dennis was lovely and did all in his powers of a guide to give us the experience we wanted. We told him we were very interested in seeing the big-cats, and he absolutely delivered. We saw countless lions, 3 separate leopards, and even 3 cheetahs (one within 2 meters from our car!)
2. Moussa our chef, did a great job... Some of the time.
Now for the things I'm not so happy with...
1. Moussa our chef seemed to preform worse and worse as the safari went on. There was less food, the food was obviously not as well prepared, and some of it so salty that it was hard to eat.
2. Though I had made a point of asking multiple times about our tents ability to withstand the rain and was assured that it was a good tent and that the rain would not plague us - this was rainy season - when we got a little bit of rain one night the inside of our tent was wet, including our matresses and the bottoms of our sleeping bags. The rain soaked right through the seams.
3. Though I had asked multiple times about binoculars - pretty important on a safari - though we did have a pair... They were broken and only one eye worked. They were pretty terrible and made viewing difficult, especially in Ngorongoro. And not very high quality to begin with.
4. We met up with another couple halfway through our safari, which we of course did not mind, but we were assured that meeting up with them would not cause us to miss anything... Well... We did miss something. Because of how this was planned we were only able to have 4 hours in the crater not the full 6, and we didn't make it to the crater until almost 10, because the other couple was driven up that morning instead of the night before.
5. I also asked about the outlets in the car, and was promised that they would be there and working... They weren't and never did the entire trip.
6. We were constantly waiting at the gates for extended periods of time, and the excuses we were given for this were quite lame. We waited almost an hour to get through the gate to the crater, another hour to get to lake Manyara... And other groups were passing us going in, it was only our group waiting.
So, while we did have a pretty good wildlife viewing experience, I can't say that I would recommend northern adventure circuit over a cheaper budget option that also has favourable reviews online.
Email Alberto | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
First Safari, best budget option!
We had an incredible time, our driver was incredible knowledgeable and our cook superb! We had some issues with a rain storm at our camps and the guys went beyond their duties to get us a warm room to sleep, best value for the money overall!! No way to have a better experience on my first safari, everything was great and according to what they described.
Experience of a lifetime!
We recently returned from a six day safari with Northern Circuit Adventure and I could not have asked for a better experience! The owner, Michael, was very responsive to any questions I had via email, I always received a reply within 24 hours. We had a wonderful guide, Ellios, who was very knowledgeable and could spot the most hidden of creatures miles away! Ellios noticed we were interested in birds and so would stop to show us all different species and explain their habits to us. Our cook Sweetmatt made us delicious food and was fun to have along on the trip. Our safari was an adventure of a lifetime and I could not have imagined a better experience! I would highly recommend this company to others - my sister is hoping to have an opportunity to visit Tanzania in February and I have already given her Michael's contact information! Thank-you Michael, Ellios, and Sweetmatt for the most amazing week!
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Email Lyne | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing safari, with amazing people!
I went on a four day safari with Northern Circuit and I had the best of times. Before the safari, I was doing some volunteer work at a school outside of Arusha. Michael arranged for transportation to and from the school which was very convenient for me.
Sweetbart was an amazing cook. Every meal that we had was spectacular. Elliott was also a great guide. He answered all of our silly questions and when he didn't know the answer (which was very rare), he would come back with an answer within the day.
After th safari, I kept in touch with Michael and he helped me out with some of my transportation plans for the rest of my trip. He was very helpful and answered all of my emails quickly.