US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful experience, an experience made that much better thanks to a great guide
Our primary reason for going to Tanzania was to visit the Serengeti, which included Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Oldupai Gorge and Ngorongoro. Our tour was through Kilidove Travel which provided a safari truck and driver (Jackson) for just the 2 of us. It was a fabulous trip and a lot of credit goes to our superb guide, Jackson, for the diligence with which he searched for the big-5.
The taxi driver we hired to get to Arusha and back was also very helpful. We paid him a bit extra and he took us all the way to Kilimanjaro National Park and showed us around.
The hotel in Arusha was excellent and the staff there treated us very, very well.
Overall, we have come back with a wonderful experience and opinion of the country and its people.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent!
I and friends have been on a number of safaris with Isaac over the years and we continue to recommend him to others interested in exploring Kenya (and beyond). Isaac is a brilliant trustworthy friendly guide, with excellent knowledge of and passion for Kenya and it's biodiversity. He offers unique and bespoke experiences, far superior to the standard tour companies. You will come away from your Ecobushman expedition feeling like you really have had an incredible adventure!
HU
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing views, amazing wildlife, amazing people, problems with accomodation
We had a 3 day trip to Mikuma and Udzungwa mountains. The views and the wildlife were amazing, we did not see any lions at the end unfortunately. There were some problems with the accomodations, one night we had to request a new room, the first room was not cleaned.
SE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Fantastic!
We visitited Masaii Mara, Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha on our safari. Masaii Mara is amazing! Beautiful scenery, lots of animals and nice weather. You can easily skip Laka Naivasha. Not so much to see or experience. The lodging was not nice and staff not so friendly. Lake Nakuru, hardly any flamingos, that is the main attraction at the lake. Did see lions and giraffs though.
IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
responded well in crisis
i went to masai mara in august 2014.tour booked by chalo africa. my kenyan airways flight from mumbai to nairobi was late by 8 hours.i was really afraid of missing connecting flight to mara,but i made it with 5 minutes to spare.during that period sangeeta and smita took care of the things and every body was informed regarding the late arrival. camp booked by them is good(ilkeliani) and guide is also good. i will recommend them any one..
BR
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Disappointing
Our car had an electric problem with the charger on the second day but the guide could drive it. On the third day of safari the guide left us at an information station at 10 am telling us that he would fix the car and disappeard for more than 4 hours, wasting our time and Safari. We were alone, not knowing what was happening and very scared. After asking for him to several other guides who were on site, we were able to locate our guide.
Then came the worst !!! We went in our car without repairing to the Lodge and soon to travel to the North Serengeti.
The guide drove like crazy, we saw several animals on the way, including a rhinoceros a few feet from our car, but he did not stop and said we would see lots of animals in Northern Serengeti in the following days !!! And got lost because he did not know the place !!! For five hours we were driving in circles and the guide didn't want to admit that he was lost. We arrived at the Lodge around 10:00 p.m. because we begged him to ask for information from a car from a local company that passed by our car, luckily ours. We have to remember that it is totally forbidden to do excursions or safari at night and we were very lucky to have seen the headlights of this car!
The next day, he didn't tell us that the car was broken and that we could not do the Safari. We communicated with the owner of Quest Horizon, who only then organized a new car and another guide. We missed the whole morning to go to Safari! The new guide only stayed with us that day and the other day another car was organized and a new guide arrived almost 2 hours late !! We lost almost 3 days of Safari and had lots of wear and stress.
The owner got us a flight to try to make up for so much lost time and we went to Lake Manyara which has practically no animal. It was the minimum that he could do!
We were very sad to lose so many days in such wonderful places in Central and North Serengeti.
IT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Competent, correct, a lot of efficiency
we’ve to thank you a lot for your perfect organization…all was perfect!
All was really beautiful, but if we’ve to choose we liked a lot chobe …the place, the lodge…the staff……
Also umkumbe staff was great….but all southafrica was!!!
IR
Fantastic
Everything was wonderful in Rhino Camp, we saw big five and every animal we looked for. The weather was nice and fresh, the trip could not be any better
Will Certainly visit kenya again and again
The safari trip was terrific!! We loved it. Albert (was his name right?) was a very good guide, we liked him a lot. We even saw black rhino and a lion so we were so lucky.It absolutely met our expectations.. more than we had expected really. We forgot a sweater in the car and the next day it was handled in at our guest house: that's what I call service!
CL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari