Tanzania Private Safaris & Small Group Adventures.
World Tours & Safaris Tanzania
- Located In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2000)
- Member Of:
- Tanzania Tourist Board
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $490 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Best trip in our lifes!! Arusha NP, Tarangire, Manyara Lake, Serengeti and Ngorongoro!
My girlfriend and me had an excellent safari with World Tour Safaris Tanzania. Since the first communication via email it has been perfect. Richard answered all our questions about everything we asked him.
Once in Arusha the deal was perfect, they pick up us in the hotel and took us to the office where the rest of the staff was waiting for us.
During all the safari we felt like at home, they treated us like a family. We really enjoyed every moment with them and it was very nice to share this experience with so good people!
Thank you to Socoine for the great food he cooked everyday for us, very very tasty!
Thanks to Frank for the game drives in the parks!
Special mention to Rickson, very young but still with a lot of knowledge about all the wildlife in Tanzania!
Thanks to all for make this trip a dream!
US
Email Dan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great trip to Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater Was Great
Richard was very responsive to my email enquiries. I was picked up at my hotel in Arusha at the specified time and enjoyed a great 5 day camping safari in a solid Land Cruiser with a great guide. We saw the big five and were provided with good meals by our camp chef Gadi. For this price point you can't go wrong.
CA
Email Erin | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Driver and cook were both excellent. I felt safe with them and the manager was also very hospitable.
Email me back right away and answered all questions. Manager went out of his way to ensure I made it to my flight on time afterwards.
ES
Email Andres Mira | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awesome trip, one of the best of my life!
Richard and his team of drivers and guides are amazing. Richard is a very proffesional and nice man who always is worried about their customers. The drivers and guides are amazing and they have a lot of knowledge about all the national parks we visited. All the team made us feel very comfortable and they take care of us in every moment. After few hours together we become a big family. Hongera sana!!!
Very good guide and People took care of you!flexibility of Company allowed clients shortly bookings!
All in all very good experience for People who are on a smaller Budget
DE
Email Daniel | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
well-organized safari with very competent guide
organization: serious planning and payments, fast response rate, no hidden costs (Counterpart Richard Kilonzo)
Safari: always on time, good catering, excellent know-how, very friendly (Counterpart Stevie Kilonzo)
Very good experience
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Email Rusko | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
6 days Kilimanjaro (Machame route) and 5 days safari
We did the 6 day Kilimanjaro (Machame route) and the 5 day safari tour (Lake Manyara ,Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater).
Price was under $2500 per person for all the basics and no hidden changes for parks. It covered everything except of course tips. We did spent around $450 for tips average for safari, Kilimanjaro, taxis and hotel. Price is good since you get both Kilimanjaro and Safari. And you get not much more for paying a lot more $$$ from the big commercial agencies like Zara and Ahsante or ect... All in all you get same lunch food from all tour companies, same service(now it depends how professional and nice is the crew. Ours were very nice people) but pricing varies a lot between companies. So choosing reasonable pricing with good tour package works best in all cases. Indeed the matter of professionalism and maintenance and availability of gear is the most important aspect when choosing between similar price offers. So after careful research World Tours and Safaris was our choice. Would we recommend them? Yes.
When doing our research it was also very important for us the people that will be our crew are treated and paid fair by their employer.
About Kilimanjaro trip (8/10):
I did succeed climbing Kilimanjaro all the way to Uhuru peak thanks to my crew and my preparedness. Please make sure you bring your prescripted diamox and ibuprofen pills from your home country. It is very important to have them with you no matter what anybody says, no matter you think or read in Internet that you need them or not, because in the end you may need them with high probability. That was our case too.
Food at the Kilimanjaro hike was very good. It is not fine dining but it is more than delicious for the conditions. My favorite was the cucumber soup we had one evening.
Kilimanjaro guides did excellent job. Their number one priority was to get us to the summit and that says enough how much they are reliable.
All the crew was friendly and willing to help if needed. I can absolutely confirm these guys work so hard you have no idea. And I've asked about their ages. They are around 24-35 years old. We were 3 people with 14 people crew. I sincerely thank the porters, cook and guides for all hard work and making our difficult mission in Tanzania fun, easy and possible.
How worth is to pay for mobile toilet? We didn't pay for that and we did not need one. What was available as public restrooms was pretty decent compared to what we've expected. I saw several mobile toilets and by what I saw will tell some of them were more "abused" than the public ones. But if you are a pretentious princess or old lady that has hard time squatting go for it!
About the safari (10/10), Jeep condition(10/10):
The guide and cook we had in this trip did fantastic job. Jeep was in pristine maintained condition. Sometimes the path was so rough we were surprised the jeep was doing so well and never broke and moving fast when we had to go from point A to point B.
Guide did everything possible for us to see the big five (and we did see all the big five animals). My highlight was interesting fight between a young male lion just killed a buffalo and pack of hyenas. Guide has radio (a must for all good safari guides) station which is important for him to get us to the interesting events happening during the game rides. They call them game rides because it is hit or miss regarding what you will see during these rides. I've asked our guide how much experience he has in business. He said 15 years as I can remember.
Cook really poured from his heart into making good dinner, lunch and breakfast. We had some Swahili traditional dishes and food was delicious!
The last day at the Ngorongoro crater camp there was raining cats and dogs and these guys were all wet outside putting all the luggage back in the jeep. We got dry in the jeep as our luggage was dry too. Kudos to these guys!
From our crews I did not hear any whining about tips and insisting when to give them. Of course we had short talk the last days because that is something that has to be arranged properly and we wanted to be arranged properly. These guys are professionals and they did not try to make us feel like ATMs. As expected we also wanted to be good clients and we were prepared to tip them accordingly too before our trip to Tanzania!
Thank you Richard for putting this trip together and providing us with excellent crew.
An advice about hotel accommodation between the tours. The default hotel we were provided had the basics and overall met out needs, but also was cheapest and we did not have to pay extra for something better. But in case please inform yourself, inquire and do research what hotel will meet your needs.
About Kilimanjaro:
FOUR TIPS I've learned and used to avoid the altitude sickness.Those will help you avoid and weaken the effect of altitude sickness.
TIP 1: Drink water at least 3 litters every day/hike! Drink it regularly when hiking and not at once.
TIP 2: Eat consistently! You need energy. Do not force yourself to eat too much consciously knowing that you already are full so after that you will need to vomit... for sure. Do not rush to go to bed after having a heavy meal.
TIP 3. Sleep any time you can and as much comfortable as you can! Failing resting will fail you summit the peak and I guarantee you that.
TIP 4. Keep up with your pace even it is too slow. If you feel you are the quickest bunny in the pack try to stay after the person who has slower pace than you. This will help you not to burn out. I was the quickest in my group and on purpose I was resting behind the second quickest person in my group.
If you start having headache when in camp do not lay on the ground trying to sleep, it will get worse. Just drink some water and take a small walk or at least sit. It will help.
JP
Email Dan Giveon | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Time In The Wild
Had my first time Safari after many visits to Africa , it was a wonderful experiance .
The booking and setting of the Safari were easily arranged by e-mails with Mr. Richard Kilonso , from World Tour& Safaris Tanzania .
We went to Tarangire National Park , Ngorongoro & Lake Manyara in a 3 days Safari .
It was realy amazing as for the season , when sun comes after rain , we saw all Animals with their young babies coming out of the bush to dry up ! Great Photos were taken !
I realy recommand ' World Tours & Safaris Tanzania ' , The Ｄriver/Ｇuide & Shef did a great job and were very helpful !
I defently come again for Safari with them !
Don't miss Lake Manyara & its Flamingos !!!
Email Van | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Safari
My sister and I were joined with a fellow Australian traveller that we met on this safari. We went to lake manyara, Serengeti and ngorengoro which were all amazing. The trip was excellent, but don't expect it to be comfortable accomodation. It's mainly just tents and the meals are as you expect. Our cook, Gahd, made it delicious though and he made certain things that we requested which was very nice. The tour guide, Cosmas, was well knowledgeable and was excellent. Overall it was an amazing experience, being able to see all the animals (including all of the big 5) up close.
PT
Email Sara | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
Just came back from Tanzania where i did a 6 days 5 nights safari. Everything was really good! We were on a tight budget so we choose to camp and it was the best thing we could do. The camping park in Serengueti is really in the middle of the animals, and it was amazing. Stanley, our guide, was a good spotter and showed us a lot of animals. And the cook, Soko4, as really good. We ate a lot!