SS
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Friendly, reliable, on-time and sympathic
Everything was fine, nothing to complain. Joe was a funny guide, thanks ! Keep my socks ;-)
HU
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
good service, reliable organizers, good price
I am content with the service, the organizers communicated well, they were punctual, and helpful. The car was convenient accomodation was very good, I got what I expected for my money. I highly recommend them.
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Service well tailored to our needs, budgets and expectations
Fred offered us a tour customized 7-day tour according our needs: budget accommodation, Nakuru-Naivasha-Masai Mara and a driver just for two of us. We were extremely satisfied with the trip and with our driver Leonard who accommodated all our inquires and wishes. Leonard is a well experienced driver and wildlife expert. We did 3 long game drives from 6 am till 6 pm in Masai Mara traveling long distances away from other cars and had the luxury to observe the animals in privacy. Leonard is very dedicated and tireless. We saw all animals with the exception of leopard. That one is probably the hardest to see and Leonard did try his best to find one. Luck was not on our side. Our best regards to Fred and Leonard!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Absolutely amazing. Service was provided promptly.
Communication was excellent. The representative from Falcon Safaris was amazing, very polite and extremely helpful. I would recommend Falcon Safaris to others.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Outstanding Service and Value
Truly professional team with a true desire to serve and support their customers. Fantastic team.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
1 Day safari to Ngorongoro crater
I chose to go on a 1 day safari to Ngorongoro crater in the last minute, through shadows of Africa. My experience with Jake in coordinating the schedule was outstanding. He made every attempt to make the schedule work. The email responses were very prompt.
The safari itself was awesome and couldn't have asked for a better experience! Richard was my guide, he is very experienced, friendly and knew his ways around at the crater!
There was no delay in the arrival/departure times. The lunch was good too and most importantly we were able to see most of the animals!!
I would definitely recommend Shadows of Africa to anyone I know without a doubt!
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
One of the best experiences of my life
Extraordinary Journey did an incredible job with booking my trip. This was a birthday gift to myself, my best friend and I went on this amazing trip and I was very happy. From the help in the beginning to the end, they were nothing but gracious, helpful, and knowledgeable. They helped picked the perfect properties to match my personality and what all I wanted to do, they were incredibly helpful with tips and how-to's from everything to where to stay to how much to tip. I am looking forward to booking my next trip with them.
CA
Excellent gorilla safari
I arranged our 4 day gorilla safaris or 7 people over the Internet via their website. Our guide Bosco was excellent. He was waiting at the airport for us as promised. His vehicle was excellent and he was always punctual.
The service was excellent throughout the safari and I would book with Umubano Tours if I were to return to Rwanda.
At the end of our tour my daughter left her trip journal in the Land Rover when we said good bye to Bosco at the airport. I assumed that we would never see it again but Bosco found it in the vehicle and rushed back to the airport to return it to us just before our flight departed. Needless to say she was overjoyed.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Trip of a life time
We did a 7 day private safari in Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire National Parks, Tanzania. I can't recommend Wildebeest Safaris and our guide Hamza more highly. We saw so many animals it was incredible and Hamza was very knowledgeable about everything. Overall the safari lived up to our expectations and more, just wish we could do it all over again! The choice of accomodation was pretty good especially the Ngorongoro Wilderness Lodge, we didn't a choose luxury safari so the accomodation meet our expectations.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
fantastic experience
where do i start?
Lets start at the beginning, left our camp which was located just about 7 km from the gate at around 6 in the morning in a land rover puma and a toyota, it was a huge squad of about 20 people.
at the gate, we meet the rangers in charge of collecting the entrance fees, the guys where awesome and kind, they even gave us a heads up on where to find what.
this time we didn't sleep in the national park, but there are so many options on different pricing if your interested, the cheapest are the government open campsites and the national parks hostels, where food can be bought at the rangers village inside the park or make your own food:)
the weather on the day was extremely hot "but what did we expect?? we were in the rift valley anyways it was bound to be hot" but later in the day it started raining just as we stopped for our lunch at one of the parks picnic sites.
the scenery was out of this world, the dry mwagusi river turned out to be an awesome animal spotting ground, and the greenery of the park did the landscape justice
we didn't have a guide, just a group of youngies. but we stopped all then guides in the other cars and they where very helpful and showed us all the places where we found leopards and lions and buffalos and crocs and hippos.
we saw so many animals families upon families of elephants, so many antelopes and impalas and kudus and jackals and pumbas and timons, zebras, baboons, so many different birds, squirrels, giraffes, and many more, and the wild flowers there are just beautiful.
the highlight of our trip is when a ranging male elephant chased one of our cars i was in the car behind just looking at the action i forgot to even film haha. and ruaha elephants are known to be one of the largest in east africa (after the ngorongoro and tarangire ones).
all in all i would do this again. i had a fantastic time, hope you have fun visiting ruaha :)
