ES
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Camping Safari in Tanzania
Last year my friends and I had an amazing camping tour of Ruaha and Mikumi National Parks with Wild Gaze Safaris. This company was pointed out by our friends and impressed us with their professionalism, top class service and quality camping equipment. Ernest the director was our guide and he has been involved in guiding safaris for more than 10 years. His experience around Mikumi and Ruaha was invaluable in selecting the scenic routes that had plenty of animals. We were luck to watch a pride of lions putting down a zebra right before our eyes. We learned a lot about Tanzania culture including spending time with the family of the late great Chief Mkwawa in their ancestral home in Kalinga.
Both campsites had very few campers giving open access to the facilities, it was much fun to sit around as Alex prepared our meals cooling off with lots of Kilimanjaro and Serengeti beers and later retire to very comfortable and clean tents.
I highly recommend Wild Haze Safaris for the complete safari and camping experience.
SE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awesome Memories
My 2 friends and I completed our trip at the start of March, we count ourselves lucky that we were able to experience spectacular beauty and adventure before the COVID 19 related restrictions were in place. We picked Snow Africa Adventures for our safari because it was clear that Florin understood exactly what we were looking for and offered the best price for the type of accommodations and activities we wanted. The trip actually worked out better than we expected, we had an experienced guide with a great personality, who knew just about everything about Tanzania. His masterly of art of tracking animals led us to great sightings. We stayed in premier lodges with amazing well trained staffs and postcard locations. I now understand that a perfect safari is not just sighting wild animals but a wholesome experience catering for all the senses ..tastes, sights, scents, sensations and sounds that be in our memories for a lifetime.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Top Safari Organizer
Going on Safari with Snow Africa Adventure was a pleasurable experience. Florent took care of everything in 6 days safari tour starting with our transfers, park fees & permits, transport, accommodations including visits to a coffee farm and a Maasai Lodge. All accommodations in Arusha, Ngorongoro and Serengeti were top of the range, staying in them was equally awesome and worthy the premium rates. Lory our guide took us on amazing game drives, his expertise and patience gave us the best wildlife tracking experience. Our cameras captured many animal scenes including some extremely hard to see (a serval cat, 2 leopard, a rhino and a distant sighting of a pack of wilddogs). We also documented the Maasai Lodge memories.
It was such a beautiful trip that I have already recommended most of my friends.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3 days Amboseli safari
We visited Amboseli for 3 nights.our tour will be one of its kind,we lots of elephants and many more antelopes than we expected. Our driver Jonathan was a very knowledgeable and experienced guide.we highly recommend this company to anyone willing to do a safari with them.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Jam packed African experience
we had a great time in Victoria falls. I was picked up at Victoria falls airport and from then onwards l knew l was in trustworthy hands. The guides were knowledgeable and always available. I loved every minute and had a such fantastic time. It was a great experience in a wonderful little town. I will definitely back in Victoria Falls. Thank you Cuckoo Safari. I highly recommend the company
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Romantic Holiday
I planned a surprise anniversary trip to Tanzania with Snow Africa Adventures. Florent helped me create a great schedule from various options that had safari walks because we find hiking as a more intimate way to experience nature.
The safari was amazing as we had an experienced and likeable Benjamin guiding us, we relied on him to find animals and tell us more about them, he was also our go between translator with the locals at the Maasai Boma we visited.
Some unforgettable highlights are; lovely candle lit dinner at Melia Serengeti on our anniversary night, walking on the rim of Ngorongoro crater enjoying awesome views, close encounters with many animals..... I could go endlessly
It was an awesome gift deliverd perfectly by wonderful Snow Africa Adventures
NZ
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Couldn’t ask for more....Over and above all expectations!
We were booked for a 12 day private Safari of Kenya and Tanzania, we had 4 absolutely amazing days of at the start of our tour, then unfortunately we had to call it quits as the world went mad with Covid 19.
Those 4 days though were absolutely faultless and everything we had ever dreamed of, we saw so much wildlife, with the best guide ever....Willie...Aka Double Whiskey (not what you think)...which made it easy for us to have to make our decision to cut short our safari when we did.
We were met in Nairobi and drove to Lake Nakuru, where we saw our first encounter with Zebras, Baboons, Rihno, Water Buffalo, Pelicans, Flamingos, Giraffe, Warthogs....and then a pride of Lionesses and their cubs... as it was late afternoon/sunset we were the only party left when the Lions decided it was time to go on a hunt....walking down the middle of the road.... we could not believe our luck - we followed them (just us) and watched them frolic for a good 30-40 mins.
The next day we had another game drive on the way out of the park, where we again encountered all that we had seen the previous day....including the pride of lions again - this time with the King of the Jungle there too.
Overnighted at Lake Naivasha the 2nd night, where cheeky monkeys came down and stole food off our table whilst we were eating....too quick for the staff that were on “Monkey duty”.
Our 3rd and 4th day were at the Masai Mara National Reserve. Before entering the National park, we visited a Masai Mara village, danced with the warriors, went inside their home, made fire and observed their way of life. Once inside the national park we had close up encounters with elephants, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, wild dogs, hippos, wilder-beast, ostriches and numerous types of gazelles, vultures and at night in bed we heard the hyenas.
Wille our Guide was absolutely fantastic. We at all times felt safe with him. He went above and beyond our expectations. When we came across wildlife, he would stop the vehicle and we would sit there; as would other tour operators, but after 5 mins or so, they would leave....but we stayed...for as long as it took...and it was once everyone else had gone, that we often saw things that other tours would have missed. I have an amazing video of a lioness growling at something that she was unhappy with approaching. Willie would park us so close to the side of the road to see the wildlife that often you felt like you could just reach out and touch them.
When we were booking our tour, we had reservations about travelling to Kenya and Tanzania in March - but now having been - in our opinion it was a great time to go....it was still hot and there was still other tour operators around, and often we commented how hot and how crowded it must get in the peak times. We certainly did not miss out on seeing anything by visiting in March. We also thought when we were booking our tour, that we would prefer to have other people on safari with us - but again it just being the two of us, meant we could stay, go, when and how long we wanted to.
Twinkle Star Tours were very professional in all their communications. It was a pleasure to deal with both James and Benson. And when we had to make the hard decision to cut short our safari, they did nothing but support us in our decision, and went out of their way to help us with rebooking flights, hotels, and have offered to keep the remaining 8 days of our trip available to us when it once again safe to travel the world.
We would absolutely and completely recommend Twinkle Star Tours, do not hesitate to book a any safari with them - you will be well looked after!
Thank you James, Benson and Willie, we look forward to seeing you all again, and will be recommending you to all our family and friends.
IT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A very professional and efficient tour operator for visiting Ethiopia
SimenEco Tours organized a tour of 5 days for me and my colleague in Ethiopia though Bahar Dir, Gondar and Lalibela, starting from and arriving at Addis Ababa. The communications were always on time and clear. The internal travels and transfers by flights and cars were perfectly organized. Same as to the local sightseeing tours, both by car, by boat, or by walking in the different visited towns and areas of Bahar Dir, Gondar and Lalibela, including the climbing excursion from Lalibela. The local guides Henock and Mas that accompanied us were very professional, polite and gave a lot of care to us. The hotel accomodations we experienced in our three visited sites were very good, the only one that could be improved is the one in Bahar Dir, as i had a problem with the bath tub in my room that was leaking water. Ultimately, the food that was included in our tour package was always very good. The rate of our Tour was reasonably correct and good value for money. I definetely would highly recommend SimienEco Tours as travel agency to anybody that would like to visit Ethiopa.
GE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Communication, Local Coordination, and Guides
I brought a group of clients to Ethiopia, and was very satisfied with my choice to work with Simien Eco Tours. We worked with several local guides, and in all locations our transportation was professionally organized, and our accommodation well chosen. The pre-tour communications were timely and direct, giving us just the information we needed. In short, this is a very professional organization, and I look forward to traveling to Ethiopia again with Simien Eco Tours.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A wonderful Most of Ethiopia-trip was provided by smart planning and experienced guides and drivers
Most of our original wishes "where to go" got true and the route was perfectly planned. The very experienced and cautious drivers are outstanding as well as the guides with one specialised on the cultural part in the North and the other one well-educated in birding for the East- and South-parts of Ethiopia, where we also visited some of the Southern Nations (tribes). We also made a trecking-tour in Bale Mountains National Parc at half time of our trip, which was physically asking, but a really good experience with plenty of flora and fauna to be seen during these four days. Very good local staff prepared delicious meals and transported our camping gear by mules.
At any time (except during the trecking) we were able to communicate with the CIOs at Gondar (which was not necessary) and vice versa were informed about latest changes (like a booking confirmed in the last moment, due to a fire). Flexibility was also high as we had some special wishes concerning our foster son and his fiance living at Addis Abeba and arranging a meeting at Lalibela.
We are very pleased that our wishes for camping in the NPs were realised, a fact not regular for providers of free-planned trips.
Just to be recommended!
