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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Selous Game Reserve
Great safari! Our guide and Samwel came to pick up and welcome us at the port station. They were very friendly and we fastly felt confortable!
They do the best to adapt the plan to our needs.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excursion to Abadares National Park
We had a wonderful weekend at Aberdares National Park, saw various wildlife and above all visited Zaina falls. What enthralled was giant hogs, I’ve never seen such animals before. I will like to give thanks to Elisha, our tour guide, he has a rich knowledge of the park’s flora and fauna. Truly it was a weekend well spent.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Kruger Park 5 Day package
Very well organised with excellent service. Some areas of minor improvements would be the food catering in Kruger which can be a bit on the frugal side. But apart from that we had a wonderful time and the rangers were very good. We will use them again.
Sammy Lema - a true ambassador for his country
ln April this year, my husband and I and two friends decided to take a short holiday and opted for
Tanzania.
Since our time was restricted, we had to shortlist our points of interests and eventually spent half
the time on the mainland in parks.
Sammy was our tour guide during our exploration of the Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire and Lake
Manyara National Parks.
We could not have wished for a better guide. Sammy really is a very knowledgeable and skilled
guide. He is also very flexible and accommodating and managed to very efficiently shuffle our
programme around to ensure we have the best experience ever.
During the four days, we also experienced his extensive knowledge of culture, history, nature and
also his passion for his job. He really spoilt us with his willingness and dedication to go the extra mile
to address and attend to our specific wishes. One does not always experience this level of sensitivity
towards the wishes and needs of the tourist.
He is an excellent guide and we can recommend any potential traveller to make use of his services.
lf we could, we would have taken him with us on our onward journey to Zanzibar.
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent, personalized service from start to finish
My fiancé and I took 5 day tour through 3 Kenyan parks - Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Amboseli. The Arch Treks team met us at our Nairobi hotel and we were off. Our driver/guide Ken was wonderful. He pointed out interesting sites along the drive, and his skills and talents at finding wildlife while on safari was outstanding. He repeatedly found animals both large and small and we were able to enjoy their magnificence for a long time before other tours descended on us. We saw all of the Big Five on the trip. We also loved the accommodations. All of the tented camps were what we expected, and we enjoyed meeting the staff who were all pleasant and full of energy. We wholeheartedly recommend Arch Treks and Safaris.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Personalised tour through Etosha, Caprivi, Chobe and Victoria Falls
We wanted a small group personalised tour to see the wildlife in Namibia as we had not been to Africa previously. After finding Nature Travel Namibia on the internet and emailing Nick we started the ball rolling to find out what he could do for us.
Nick was very responsive and professional in his email dealings and upgraded some of the accommodation and tour itinerary for us to start our 10 night tour leaving Windhoek to Etosha NP (4 nights across 3 lodges), then to Okavango River (2 nights), Kwando River/Bwabwata NP (1 night), Chobe NP Botswana (2 nights) and concluding at Victoria Falls(1 night).
All lodge accommodation and meals were of a high standard, but the real highlight was the fact we were on a "personal" tour with Nick, with ourselves and only one other couple, Colin & Jane from the U.K. Our guide Nick Buys shared his passion for his native country Namibia and with a background as a qualified vet, he has amazing knowledge of the wildlife and the country. Each day we did either 2 wildlife drives or a combination of drive and river boat safaris. Nick has a sharp eye for picking out wildlife and was able to spot some of the
incredible animals in the wild bush and navigate for us to get very close for some wonderful observations and pictures/film. I started a list of what we saw but gave it away after recording 30 animals and 40 bird varieties as it could have gone on forever.
We had started our trip planning thinking we might self-drive Namibia, but we're glad we decided to go with Nature Travel Namibia as Nick took all the stress out by organising "everything" and there is no way we would have seen as much, particularly the animals, if we had gone with a self-drive.
We can highly recommend the services of Nature Travel Namibia and we would definitely go with them again if we come back to do another wildlife tour.
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
I booked my trip online off course I was little scared how it's going to be but everything turned out amazing!
James is very professional and the same time so friendly. He treated us like we've been friends forever...
He is able to answer every questions even more than we have known to ask, he informed us briefly.
He was very careful about what we told him, what we are expecting to see, he gave us our dream come true. I fell in love with Tanzania in 4 days and now dreaming going back for more days.
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Family Get away Experience
We stayed at Sopa Lodges in Masai Mara. These lodges were more than adequate, clean, and had very good staff service. What was more amazing were the sizes of the bed. ‘Big’ you are assured of a good night sleep. The game drives were incredible - usually we had 2 each day - there was no shortage of driving in the parks. We saw hundreds of thousands of wildebeest , 12 lions, hundreds of elephants, hundreds of zebras, 5 cheetahs, rhinos, hippos... We took a ride on the lake to see crocodiles. We hiked Hell's Gate. The trip was absolutely spectacular. Hats off to Kenya Tru Nomads Tours and to our guide/ driver Cholda for introducing us to Kenya and providing an experience that will be with my family forever.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Outstanding
Amboseli national park is a fantastic place, we seen lots of fantastic animals, like lions, gnus, elephants, hippos, flamingos, impalas, thomson's gazelles and grant's gazelles. The scenery is outstanding, so emotional too! is like being in a magic place. Our guide was amazing and explained everything that we need to know (Safari Dream ltd). The weather was little cold but nothing to moan about, was very suitable.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Planet of the Elephants
My fiancé and I are in our 30's from New York City and recently took a two week tour to Kenya and Tanzania. What an incredible life experience that everyone must absolutely do in their lifetime - and better sooner rather than later. You will feel like you're living in a National Geographic video. Just make sure you go the right time of year. Children will absolutely love it - just make sure they're old enough to remember it. In Kenya we went to Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Samburu Game Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park and the highlight, the incredible Maasai Mara to witness the great migration. In Tanzania we went to Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara Park and Ngorongoro Crater. Tarangire was our first stop in Tanzania after Kenya and our first reaction was "whoa, there are a lot of elephants here. And they are BIG" - they owned the place. We saw baby and adolescent elephants play fighting which was a highlight. Plenty of other animals as well - we saw lions, leopards lazing about in the trees, several bird species, zebras and wildebeest. We really enjoyed our time in Tarangire and highly encourage you to visit.
