20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Very Well organised
They are very organised .The trip to mara was an excellent experience. Their staff are very friendly and supportive.
I will choose expeditions maasai safaris any day!
Amazing
The tour was so amazing our guide David was so patient with me and my family including a 1 year baby, we had an amazing expérience and the customer service agent who did the booking.com process Milka was really professional and nice. We definetly recommand expedition masai safari
We are more that satisfied.
PT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Awesome experience
I contacted Brian through a Facebook post he put up about the Great Migration and he informed me that his company could organise a trip for me. I've lived in Africa and I am also a photographer so I had some specific news and expectations. I was also having to balance a tight budget so that needed to be taken into account. Brian and his colleague Festus in Nairobi put together a programme of 6 1/2 days in the Masai Mara. I had my own vehicle/driver/guide so I could determine how long I wished to stay at a certain site or move on. This gave me the advantage of seeing other interactions which other would have missed including jackels and vultures coming in to finish off a Lion kill and hyena and jackels interacting at a kill. We did also get to see the wildebeest and zebras crossing the Mara though unfortunately the river was too low for Crocodiles. Overall a great experience and both Brian and Festus kept in contact throughout the week to check everything was running smoothly. I stayed just outside the park gate which meant easy access. The tented camp was comfortable and met my needs and my budget. Overall highly recommended.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
They are customer oriented,Budget Friendly, reliable and Efficient
My tour agent Milkah was on top of things from day one up to the last day of the Safari, answering all my questions and assuring me of customized service delivery and value for money .which I would say was 100% satisfactory
On the D-day My tour guide/driver Bethwel was early he jelled well with my whole family now he is one of us. His Patience, experience,knowledge of everything and anything exceeded my expectations.
We had an 18 month old baby and his needs were well catered for. The tour was everything I hoped it would be.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
friendly
Fred and Martin were very flexible. In a professional trip i cancelled and then confirm my trip to masai mara within 24h and only 2 days before and that wasn't a big trouble for them. Somehow we even manage to see the big five the first day ! Fred and Kephar, our driver, were very nice. Didn't feel to be solo travelling. I recommand !
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent
I booked for ten days travel: Safari, Diani Beach and a few night stay in Nairobi.
Milkah was absolutely fantastic and so accomodating of everything that I needed. On safari Joshua was a wonderful dedicated guide with a genuine passion for the wildlife of Maasai Mara. All transfers were perfectly on time.
Could not have asked for a better, more perfect or reasonably priced experience.
Thank you for your fantastic work :)
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Moremi and Kasane – fantastic and memorable safari tours
We were a party of four (two couples) and booked an individual 5-day-tour with Sekanka Safaris. Communication was easy and professional.
On the day of our departure in Maun we were picked up at our accommodation by our guide Thaloganyo, who was the perfect guide with lots of knowledge about the area and animals. We then drove to the Moremi Game Reserve with our lodge for the stay located in Khwai. From our lodge we went on four safari tours which left us in absolute awe: Nature, scenery, and most of all these beautiful animals that we were lucky to see. Numerous giraffes, water buffalos, zebras, impalas, wart hogs, occasional hyenas. The highlight were definitely the majestical elephants everywhere (we love elephants) and on top of that we saw a pride of 24!!! lionesses feeding.
On day three of our tour we left Khwai and headed to Kasane. Here we did a little day tour to the Victoria Falls via Zimbabwe, which was a very lovely trip with a walk along the waterfalls. The next day we took a River Safari on the Zambesi River around Sedudu Island. This island is special, because it is always green and the animals have to cross a wide river to get there. This we were able to witness as a herd of elephants crossed the river in the evening to the mainland, with the bigger elephants supporting the smaller ones that could only lift their trunk out of the water.
The next day we then had the drive back to Maun which brought our memorable safari tour to an end.
Sekanka took care of everything: booking the lodges and cars, getting into the parks, food, etc.
Thanks to everybody, it was exceptional.
LV
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Be careful with this company
It's very sad because previously travelling with Karumuna (we did it three times) had no big problems. This time, however, the unpleasantness overcame everything. A number of services were not paid. So we had to pay for a second time in several places for accommodation and food. There were also no paid hikes for chimpanzees and gorillas. The owner of the Karumuna kept promising that the money issues would settle. Right away. An hour later. Two hours later. Tomorrow. Even now that we are already returning home, it is still promising that the money will be returned. We don't believe it anymore. It is a great pity that the visions of many travelers of the beautiful country, Uganda- Pearl of Africa, have been ruined.It's not exactly a clear reason why our money was missing. The most unpleasant, though, are the empty promises. I now i will travel Uganda again. Becose of very beauty and nice country and friendly people. But not with Karumuna. Never.
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Never again
+ The organisation is very well and they‘re very fast in responding
+ They were always on time for the pick up
- The car was in a very bad condition. Also it was not a Land Cruiser. They took us to safari in a very old bus. The seat belt was broken, some electrical cable were falling down and also some parts of the roof were falling down what made it difficult to look for animals while on safari with the open roof. Also we had to be towed two times.
- The driver only spoke limited english
- The driver‘s phone was ringing very loud every 5 Minutes (I‘m not talking about the radio microphone he used to communicate with other guides) and he was answering to private calls
- We paid USD 990.00 for the tour. On the internet I saw that the tour only costs USD 950.00.
- In their 3 days maasai mara tour they advertise that you do 3 game drives (day 1: evening game drive, day 2: fully day game drive, day 3: morning game drive). Once you get there they don‘t want to take you to another game drive on the third day. We had to discuss for hours with the driver and the office until they agreed to bring us to the game drive on the third day. However, they kept the third game drive very short (2 hours), even we had more time because we agreed to drop us off at Nairobi Airport at 6pm. At the end of the game drive we saw cheetahs getting ready to attack wildebeests. There were other 20 cars around to wait until the cheetahs attacked. After 10 minutes our driver said, we got to go back to Nairobi. We didn‘t understand, as we had so much time left until our flight left. On our way back the driver told us, that we will pick up 2 other guests and bring them back to Nairobi (even we booked private safari…). So we had to make space for them. When we got to Nairobi, we first stopped at their apartment to drop off their luggage, then they got back in the car and after we dropped them off in the Nairobi West Hospital for their Covid Test. Traffic in Nairobi is really bad and this stops in Nairobi cost us about 2 hours. Finally we got to the airport and it was clear to us why we made only such a short game drive in the morning: It was because of the 2 People we had to pick up and this wasn‘t told us in advance. Don‘t get me wrong, the 2 people were really nice, but we expected our day to be different.
In general, be carefull with all tours: They advertise all 3 days Maasai Mara Tours with 3 days Safari (Evening game drive the first day, fully day game drive the second day and morning game drive the third day). But most of the cheap tours like this try to skip the last morning tour and tell you „you‘ve already seen everything yesterday bla bla bla“. The reason they do this is, that the Park Fee for Maasai Mara is paid per 24 hours. This means, if you go to the first game drive in the evening from 4pm to 6pm and the next day you do a full day game drive from 7 am to 4 pm they only pay one day park fee. If you do a game drive on the third day, they would have to pay additional USD 80.00 for each guest (hope my explanation makes sence). So always make sure to clarify in advance what you will pay and what you will get. We met spanish people on a similar tour and they had to pay the park fee seperately for 48 hours (USD 160.00 each). They gave the money directly to the guide and I guess he only buyed tickets for 24 hours and told them that they‘re not going to do a third game drive. So he kept 80 USD of each passenger for himself.