35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Donald Gramkow
After a flood in 2013, the park entrance has suffered big destruction and has not yet renovated. The wildlife itself is very interesting, but Serengeti and Tanrangire are much better.
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Lake Bogoria National Reserve by Ankit Desai
Can be given pass. Visit only if you are interested in Hot-spring and flamingos... Too far for travelers!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Vast but sparsely populated
Visited both Tsavo East and Tsavo West. They are quite vast, but sadly not a wide variety of animals are present. You see plenty of elephants and zebras, some giraffes, and that's almost it! We spent 2 days and only saw 2 lions in Tsavo East on our very last hour after a very frantic search for them (our guide had been told where to go and look for them!). There was the occasional monkey and one buffalo. This is all over 2 days! If you really want to see animals go to Maasai Mara, Amboselli, etc.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Vast but sparely populated
Visited both Tsavo East and Tsavo West. They are quite vast, but sadly not a wide variety of animals are present. You see plenty of elephants and zebras, some giraffes, and that's almost it! We spent 2 days and only saw 2 lions in Tsavo East on our very last hour after a very frantic search for them (our guide had been told where to go and look for them!). There was the occasional monkey and one buffalo. This is all over 2 days! If you really want to see animals go to Maasai Mara, Amboselli, etc.
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Tarangire National Park by Kadir
Tarangire is dominated by elephants
CA
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Skeleton Coast National Park by Heather Johnston
Dunes run to the ocean. Cooler than inland. Seal colony a big hit, but smelly!
EG
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Over priced
They were good but no one gave us the tickets for the fly back and we waited for almost one hour in the jungle without water for the plane to come
KR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Addo Elephant National Park by Anna Mahon Oneill
I prebooked alot of my SA trip and felt Addo was the hardest place to book. Their accommodation is booked separately from the game drives and restaurant bookings so nothing seems straight forward, linked or easy. It took a total of over 20 emails to book anything, information on the website is wrong, email addresses on the website bounce back - i honestly don't know how they're so busy. I was expecting great things since it is the second biggest park in SA, both of the Addo accommodation we stayed in were lovely (better than expected) altho the plunge pool at our nyathi rest camp booking was very dirty so I sadly didn't use it at all. We did two guided game drives that did end up enabling us to see animals we hadn't seen at other reserves but the park is so big and the bush so dense that its hard to actually see anything unless you happen to be lucky and find the animal crossing the road. We didn't do a self drive, drive which we regret but as we stayed in the Nyathi rest camp it ment we were locked out of the park and made us feel like we couldn't explore as much as we would have wanted. The reception is a frustrating place were staff definitely take their time processing things. Paying for game drives is unorganised and could definitely be dealt with better. All in all i'm glad i got to see some animals as if i hadnt it would have been a waste. I'm not sure i would recommend Addo - maybe if your in the area or driving passed and have a few hours or a day to kill then definitely go but if pre booking i hope its a better experience than i had.
DK
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Lise Pedersen
We simply did not see very much game here! Rain and cloudy weather!