50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Best travel experience ever - exceeded all expectations
This was a once in a life time trip celebrating my 60th birthday by trekking with the gorillas in Bwindi so my expectations were high as this had been on my bucket list for some time. From the initial contact with Bella all the way through to the last of numerous emails, her responses were prompt and provided all the information I required. This, along with the price, was the reason I chose Bella Africa Safaris over the many other companies I contacted for quotes.
Bella customized a 15 day tour incorporating my expressed preferences whilst still allowing enough flexibility to take advantage of opportunities as they presented. The most enjoyable of these unplanned gems were visits to a village at Kibale (including an interesting house call to the local medicine man and a meeting with some of the delightful children from the village), as well as a visit to a newly established school in Rushaga and a performance from the children of a recently established orphanage. All these visits were truly joyful and memorable experiences with lots of smiles and laughs exchanged (thanks to our interpreters) with the opportunity to take some gifts a bonus.
Although Bella was not our guide on this occasion, we were fortunate to have Moses (an extremely experienced guide and expert driver) and Bella's sister in law, Justine, as our travel companions. After sharing meals, life stories and histories, some long days in our 4WD, games of a night and lots of laughs, they soon became our family away from home. We are grateful also that our tour overlapped with Bella's on 2 occasions which gave us the opportunity to spend time with her and realize we want to do another safari in the not too distant future.
Of course, we were lucky to see all the animals we had hoped (thanks to Moses's patience and persistence) except for the elusive leopard, but the animal sightings surprisingly became less the focus than the cultural education and exchange. I could never have imagined that we would laugh so much.
So, if you are looking for a unique, customized tour with personalized care from start to finish, Bella must be your choice. The standard of accommodation was excellent (budget to mid) with all meals included making it extremely good value for money compared to other quotes received.
Thank you so much Bella, Moses and Justine for making this experience the best 15 days of travel ever and one I will remember with a great deal of fondness for the rest of my life.
NL
Safari Care is Top !
We made a 5 days round through the parks, with Kamal making the arrangements and Mr Moller as our guide. The whole trip was in short excellent, the parks breathtaking in terms of views, lanscape, diversiteit and wildlife. Tanzania is a gem, safe and on top lovely people. You do not neccesarily be there at the migration, we were not and still had a life experience certainly never to forget. Many Thx to the Safari Care crew and do not bezigste to book and get spoiled by them. If you do not have much time then go for Serengeti only which is just amazing on its own already !
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Very good service
I booked a private tour and everything was arranged perfectly to my needs. Would recommend to anyone.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Top-class Service
We received excellent service from very friendly and cooperative staff at Kenyan safari Arcade. All arrangements were perfect. Thanks for making our trip so special. I will deinitely reccomend KSA to freinds and colleagues.
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Kichaka surpassed every expectation I had regarding my African safari
Thank you Kichaka for what can only be described as an experience of a lifetime. From our arrival in Nairobi to th end of our safari tour, Kichaka ensured the utmost comfort and a fantastic safari experience Special shoutout to our tour guide / driver Bonny. He was exceptional, and went above and beyond his job description to ensure that there were zero glitches in our trip.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An amazing guide, well organised safari!
From the 1st contact, Noah, a sale representative from Wilderbeest Safaris, was very fast at replying and efficient. He organised a 4 days safari around Arusha following my comments and criteria.
He was always very fast at replying to any of my questions and organised everything very smoothly from start to finish! We were very impressed and highly recommend them.
We were lucky to get Max as our driver/ guide and it was perfect!
Max is a knowledgeable guide, smart, kind, funny and discreet. We really liked the whole experience and saw so many wild animals!! All of them really except the Rhino and Leopard but that was a long shot anyway.
In regards to the hotels, depending on your budget, I stoingly recomment you stay at the Neptune Ngorongoro!! This was a magical experience, amazing service, everything all inclusive, very spacious cottages with chimneys!! A real dream and I wish we stayed longer there!
The 2nd night was at a hotel inside the Ngorongoro national park, the Ngorongoro Serena Lodge and that was a very disappointing experience. If we had known we would have asked to stay at the Neptune again as it is just at the entrance of the park and on the way to Lake Manyara.
We also visited the Lake Manyara park, lots of girafes and elephants! And the Tarangire park where we saw more elephant, Girafes, lions, Zebras and all the others!!
Thanks again Wilderbeest for organising a great trip for us, we loved it and will recommend you to our friends and family!
SE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing, unforgettable, top quality trip
We was party of 4 person . Stay a 6 day at Tremisana Lodge. This trip was a dream come true. Thank you all staff for fantastic for. Special Thank you to Joanne, Iris, Sam and Rex, also wonderful ladies at the kitchen. Food was excellent all or trips to Kruger Par was simply unforgettable . We saw Big Five!!
Will strongly recommend to choose Viva Safari för all why wants to visit Kruger Park!
AE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Maximum fun with minimum budget is Magical
Pamela is awesome, she was so flexible may it be tour customization or price or payment terms,
she delivered the best as she had promised.
Peter the tour guide was so nice and was equally excited to go around in search of exotic animals. he never let us feel that he was just doing his job.he was so caring that we didnt feel that we are foreigners
long live Magical Retreats & Adventures Tours
PE
Experience level: first safari
Awesome expirience! One of the most amazing momentos of my life
All was excellent, You will see the Big 5 here.
All people on Makalali was very kind.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Five days of sightings with a surprise every day and great variety between bush and delta
Although we only spotted 2 of the 5 big game, we saw enough variety of wildlife from wild dogs and elephants to red kites and the famous busturd to keep us satisfied. We enjoyed both the game viewer, the boats and the light aircraft as modes of transport. All of the guides were fantastic, food plentiful and well prepared. The bush dinner made us feel like VIP's. Lots of welcome and farewell singing from the staff at both lodges.