US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Once in a lifetime trip with our awesome tour guide Tony, definitely recommend it!!
Tony, our driver and tour guide, was absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a kind high-character person, he is very knowledgeable about Uganda and really took the time to answer all of our questions. Tony took the time to go the extra mile to ensure our entire trip was special, and to show us his culture and beautiful country. Every minute, from when arrived early to pick us up to when he helped us with our luggage at the airport at the end of our trip, we felt completely taken care of by Tony. Friendly Gorilla Safaris was wonderful, from Anthony promptly responding to all of our emails and questions, to Tony making our trip great. Definitely recommend them!
The Gorilla hike was absolutely amazing and a once in a lifetime experience, I could not recommend it enough! You have to do this tour and you have to ask for Tony to make it even more wonderful.
A couple tips:
- Ensure that the hotel is close to where your permitted hike is located. I did not know that there are 5 locations where you can hike to see the Gorillas, depending on where your permit is for. Double check that the hotel you stay at is convenient to your permit hike site. Our hotel was the Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge, which was absolutely Wonderful and you can check out my review of them, and they are close to one of the hiking sites but it turned out that our permit was for another location so we had a 2 hour drive in the morning to get to our permit hiking site. It made for an especially early morning and a closer hotel to our hike would have been nice. Though the Rushaga really was wonderful.
- If there is a way to choose where you hike and what group of gorillas to see then you should 100% ask for the Nyakagezi group. That is the group we visited, and it was Amazing. The hike was only about 1.5 hour to see the family of gorillas which had 3 silverbacks and 2 babies. The rangers we were with were all lovely. They were so helpful to ensure we got amazing views and photos of the gorillas, and they answered all of our questions. We felt completely safe with them and had a wonderful time.
Once in a lifetime trip with our awesome tour guide Tony, definitely recommend it!!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing gorilla experience
We booked a 2 day gorilla tour with Katona tours and found them to be excellent! I contacted Jackie about 6 months before our tour and she was so helpful with answering all our questions, providing detailed information, and ensuring our gorilla permits.
Our tour ran very smoothly - we wish we had booked for a longer stay! Our guide Valens was great, he made us feel very comfortable, was always on time, and happy to go out of his way to accommodate extra stops if we asked.
Jackie was kind enough to check in on us during our tour.
The tour itself is amazing, the lodge we stayed at was incredible and the gorillas are definitely a once in a lifetime, must see experience!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Top service with a very professional treatment.
The booking was smooth and the pick up at our place were as planed. The driver drove with confidence and it felt safe.
The driver had a lot of experiense and could talk a lot about the animalis, nature and history about the landscape and the people in the area. Imagine to stand still in a open car, in a big herd of over 500 buffalos, to just be one in the nature, listening to the sounds, se them buffering. It was amazing.....
The safari was fantastic in every way and we can highly recomend Hazzes Adventure. Our lovely driver could also inform us about other adventures to experance around Arusha. Big thanks to Vincent!
CA
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Uganda Safari Experience!
My wife and I are so glad that we chose Bushman Safaris for our Uganda adventure! During the booking process Kate responded to all of our questions very quickly and was super helpful. Our guide Joseph was excellent, knowledgeable, and fun! He took great care of us the whole time and brought us to so many amazing places. We would definitely recommend Bushman Safaris to our family and friends.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It was amazing.Looking forward for the next visit with youthanks
Thanks to starvel safaris. You were offering the best services.I would recommend my family and friends to join you.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic wildlife watching Experience
Everything was well organised and ran seamlessly. Bazanya safaris surpassed my expectations.
This was a trip of a lifetime
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
amazing company
this is really to review the whole experience that I had with Bazanya Safaris. Given some of the earlier reviews, I just went with the hunch that they would be good. I did not expect outstanding which is what I got. From their response times (24/7) to all my questions and the detail of their responses to the entire 5 days that I was there, there is nothing more than I could have wanted. Roland in the office and Chris as my guide - what a combination of excellent service.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A Holiday of wilderness and amazing gazing
In the spring last year I contacted a number of safari companies and Wild Gaze replied swiftly and comprehensively. Because we were flying to Arusha Norbert was our main interlocutor during that preparation period and over the next few months we communicated on a weekly basis. Apart from the safari there were other specific things that I wanted us to do and planning our itinerary wasn’t easy but Wild Gaze Safaris were extremely helpful and accommodating. They organised accommodation as well as our bus and taxi journeys and they looked after us as if we were royalty! In Arusha Norbert and Fred, the taxi driver, were attentive to our every need. We started our safari in Iringa where Ernest, the master mind behind Wild Gaze, and Nalasco, our driver and guide for the next four days looked after us beautifully. Nalasco was there when we stepped off the bus and Ernest welcomed us at The Sunset Hotel. A very well chosen venue with lovely food and friendly staff. Over the next four days everything was beautifully laid out and we discovered Ruaha. Nalasco is a very kind and knowledgeable guide who helped us understand the landscapes and its mighty inhabitants. The national park of Ruaha is wonderful and we saw some amazing animals. Nolasco could see everything miles ahead. He was also an excellent driver and the drive was not an easy drive! No doubt the top gear team would award him a medal. On the last day of our safari he drove us across valleys and mountains to take us to Mikumi, and on our way we stopped in Iringa where Ernest, because we were pressed for time, handed us some delicious chicken and chips through the window. A great team work. After a few wonderful days in Zanzibar we returned to Arusha where once again Norbert took us under his wing. Thank you Wild Gaze team for an amazing adventure!!!!
HU
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very excellent
Very good excellent service
Good translates
Excellent accommodation
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari