IT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
unforgettable experience, over the top our driver/guide Ronald
we spent 16 days visiting Murchinson, Kibale, Queen Elisabeth, Lake Bunyonyi, Ruhija for gorilla trekking, Kisoro and Lake Mburo. Our guide, Ronald, was always ready to satisfy every single request we had : from coffee plantation, tea factory, cacoa fruits, not ot mention pineapple or any kind of food we wanted. Fantastic !!
Gorilla trekking was breathtaking, with two silverbacks just in front of us. Trakker and rangers in Bwindi are proud of their job and transfer this passion to people visiting gorillas. Gorilla tours is a very reliable company , where taking care of their customers is a must.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Ilmaasai Expeditions was great, reliable and reasonable priced - we had an awesome experience!
Ilmaasai Expeditions took care of our request and answered all our questions. We chose 6 days/5 nights safari including Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro conservation area. We were camping and it was a great experience to stay in the nature. The tents and tented lodges were of good shape and we were provided with sleeping bags and matrazes. Our driver Brianson did great too and showed us all animals! We were free to announce our wishes like sunset // sunrise game drive . Also our cook Osman was super - the food was delicious and he even cooked vegetarian food for me. They were all the time very helpful, friendly, funny and supporting.
We really enjoyed the safari and would recommend it to anyone else. Thank you again to Ilmaasai Expeditions, Brianson and Osman!!!
SE
It exceeding all my expectations. Extremely good tour!
The safari and camping sights will stay with me forever. It was a very professional outfit and we had a great safari. The guide was very good and organisation was so easy! Highly recommend!
CA
It was amazing
James was our guide...he did a amazing job! We saw all the animals that we hope to see! He knows the parks very well and knows where to bring us! We don't loose tine and he give a lot of explication about the animals!! It was very interesting! He is always on time and make sure that we have all we want! For the food, the cook was amazing, I was surprise how he can do such good food!!! I recommand this company for a really good safari!!
JP
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best safari trip ever with Jocky Tours
Since we were planning for our trip, I got prompt response for every email and got proper advice on our safari trip from Jocky Tours which is very helpful later on our trip. The airport pick up was on time and after payment, we immediately got our safari trip started. Joshuar was assigned as our drive and guide and was very experienced as an animal seeker and responsible for the whole trip of us. We could see so many animals including big 5 thanks to him. All lodges in those safari parks are wonderful too. After all, we had a best safari trip every and it won't happen without Jocky.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
You never forget!
It was our first time in Africa and so also in Uganda.
We wanted to book the gorilla-trecking and we searched for a guesthouse in the nationalpark.
And we found! So we stayed 9 days at Bunyonyi View Gorilla Packers, made trecking and also volunteering in the school. Everything is written here already and YES, it is like that.
The children and also all the other nice people we met went directly in our hearts.
So when we went back in Germany, we thought everyday about the school, the children....and so we started in february a foundation. We travel since 25 years, we saw so many poorness in different countrys, but now we are the first time able to help also directly from Germany- because we trust Crystal and Didan.
We are sure, they do so much for the kids and the money we sent is not going in there own pockets.
So you can see pictures of the school and the children on this side and we are happy about every donate ( now we collect for Siana and her family; they lost their home by a heavy rain):
https://www.leetchi.com/c/soziales-von-elke-zaksek
PT
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
A very good experience in Southern África
We receave good information about all the trip and the places we visit. The lodges were according to what was expected, except the "Zebra River Lodge", a place to forget. Most of the locals we visit exced ours expectation. Clife, our guide, is a very kind and profissional guy.
IT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience, well organised and with prepared and helpful guide
The organization proved to be helpful during the preparation of the trip, and helped me to organize my staying in Arusha after the Safari. (I had some extra days that I wanted to spend backpacking around in Tanzania).
I decided for a camping safari, anyway the accommodation provided for me in Arusha was a really nice and characteristic place which I enjoyed.
The experience during the Safari was greatly improved by a very experienced and documented guide named Issack which was able to provide any kind of information on the wildlife (If needed books were available with picture and information on the animals as well) as well as on the life of the communities we encounter during the trip.
Despite the decision to take the safari at the end of the rain season when animals are scattered on the land we were able to spot any sort of predators (leopard and cheetah included) and the rhinos in Ngorongoro crater.
I had an amazing experience with some unforgettable moments during the game drives and met nice and helpful people which company I enjoyed.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Highly responsive, competitive pricing
I went with Cross Country for a May 2017 trip to Zambia primarily because they were consistently over time the most responsive to my inquiries and their price was competitive. I wish they had stronger knowledge of camps at Kafue NP in Zambia to tell me that animal viewing in May would be better at a riverside camp than at Kanga Camp which is deep in the bush. But the 2 camps they chose at South Lwange (Flatdogs and Chichele Lodge) were excellent. They were understanding when I wired $200 less than I was supposed to as an oversight and agreed with my suggestion of providing that cash on arrival, which was flexibility I appreciated. I mainly just appreciated knowing that if I sent an email, I'd hear back quickly, even if an interim response.
KR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Service and price! Thank you!
When we were looking to go to Safaries in Africa, we had no idea about the cost, experiences, schedule - virtually nothing. Then we came through Compass Odyssey, who were graceful on every step. We had some schedule fixed, and we wanted to visit certain safaries : Chobe, Kruger/Sabi, and Victoria Falls. Compass Odyssey not only happily agreed to schedule as we desired, they were fantastic on doing there job! Their response time was always extremely fast, and every response was on the spot. While we were in safaries, they always took care of things in advanced by letting my apointments informed to me and them. I hope to visit South African Safaries with schedules set up by Compass Odyssey again. It was a great pleasure having you as an agent and really would hope to have you once again for our future journey.