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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Ngorongoro Crater by Akira Sorajja
So sad that we cannot see rhino on the day we went there
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Ava
We went to Lake Manyara after visiting the other places, and it's just not as exciting as the Serengeti, or as beautiful as the Ngorongoro crater. They have a lot of cool birds there, a variety of monkeys, and the lake is beautiful with some nice vistas, but you just don't see as many animals here. It may have been a better place to go first, as it felt lackluster when we visited as our last destination. I would have rather spent another day in the Serengeti rather than stopping here.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Booking made in name of agent, not us,thus creating stress when we could not access park
Safari tour ok, other time spent great! Booking was made under agent's name, and not our name. We therefor struggled to convince gate personnel that we did book, as they could not find our names.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It was okay...
My partner and I are budget travellers, but decided to spend a little extra money to make a safari with Northern Adventure Circuit because of their glowing reviews, unfortunately, we did not get what we expected for the money.
Let's start with the positives:
1. Our guide Dennis was lovely and did all in his powers of a guide to give us the experience we wanted. We told him we were very interested in seeing the big-cats, and he absolutely delivered. We saw countless lions, 3 separate leopards, and even 3 cheetahs (one within 2 meters from our car!)
2. Moussa our chef, did a great job... Some of the time.
Now for the things I'm not so happy with...
1. Moussa our chef seemed to preform worse and worse as the safari went on. There was less food, the food was obviously not as well prepared, and some of it so salty that it was hard to eat.
2. Though I had made a point of asking multiple times about our tents ability to withstand the rain and was assured that it was a good tent and that the rain would not plague us - this was rainy season - when we got a little bit of rain one night the inside of our tent was wet, including our matresses and the bottoms of our sleeping bags. The rain soaked right through the seams.
3. Though I had asked multiple times about binoculars - pretty important on a safari - though we did have a pair... They were broken and only one eye worked. They were pretty terrible and made viewing difficult, especially in Ngorongoro. And not very high quality to begin with.
4. We met up with another couple halfway through our safari, which we of course did not mind, but we were assured that meeting up with them would not cause us to miss anything... Well... We did miss something. Because of how this was planned we were only able to have 4 hours in the crater not the full 6, and we didn't make it to the crater until almost 10, because the other couple was driven up that morning instead of the night before.
5. I also asked about the outlets in the car, and was promised that they would be there and working... They weren't and never did the entire trip.
6. We were constantly waiting at the gates for extended periods of time, and the excuses we were given for this were quite lame. We waited almost an hour to get through the gate to the crater, another hour to get to lake Manyara... And other groups were passing us going in, it was only our group waiting.
So, while we did have a pretty good wildlife viewing experience, I can't say that I would recommend northern adventure circuit over a cheaper budget option that also has favourable reviews online.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A Pleasant Park
This is a pretty park, but it's by no means one of the best in Africa. I did enjoy seeing the roan antelope, eland, zebra and bushbuck. The birding was good as well. I was lucky to see a serval.
I feel that Bale Mountain National Park offers something similar, but more unique. I was able to see species of wildlife such as the Ethiopian wolf and Mountain Nyala which are truly unique.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Tsavo West National Park by Steven Levenson
Did not have time to see much
SE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Queen Elizabeth National Park by Karin
Very dry, quite flat not so exciting National Park. Unfortunately very limited wildlife sightings.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Kakamega Forest National Reserve by Christiane Saar
We only cant See a few animals.
SE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Etosha National Park by Jessica Krepper
I have been to Kruger National Park before. It was more wildlife and greener. But with that said it was low season in Etosha when I was there. But we did see a lot of lions. Which was great!
FR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Arusha National Park by Gilbert Meon
The main interests of Arusha NP is game walking and the flamingoes at Big Momela lake