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35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Blissful luxury and incredible safari
We have taken several trips with Asilia, including a Serengeti safari, Tarangire safaris, and stays at their property in Zanzibar. We cannot recommend their properties or service enough, they are an incredible company with excellent customer service and attention to detail. Nadine was fantastic in putting our trips together for us and all of the staff at their properties were so accommodating and helpful (we especially loved George at Matemwe in Zanzibar). Asilia's social consciousness and positive impact on the communities in which they operate are a big reason we choose to travel with them.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A dream holiday
After coming across Right Choice Tours & Safaris by accident, we can honestly say that it was one of the best trips that we have ever taken. They were prompt with messages and organised our trip at very short notice. Our guide Jacob Otieno was superb, helping us to both spot the animals and safely drive us from destination to destination. Our trip was made up of Nakuru NP, Lake Niavasha, Maasai Mara NP, Hell's Gate & Amboseli NP. I thouroughly recommend the company and in particular Jacob our guide.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
It was incredible and informative.
Kurt Safaris is a very professional company with good vehicles and guides. I would highly recommend a game drive to anyone visiting the Kruger.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
fantastic once in a lifetime trip
communication brilliant throughout the organisation and booking process. once deposit paid less communication but no problem as all was booked. tour was well organised and the actual guys on the ground in Arusha /Kilimanjaro were fantastic and they rearranged a few things to make the trip run even smoother . Great time of year to go saw all we wanted and great interaction with local tribes . Accommodation was outstanding and well organised with what we had arranged, great glamping!(posh tented accom) even with the close night live making a few interesting tales. Fantastic overall trip would recommended this company as they seemed to be reasonable priced for a great small group . Note need to remember to add tipping costs.
CA
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A wonderful experience, one that I would gladly repeat.
This was one of the best adventures that I have had. The trip was well organized, the guides knowledgeable and the exposure to wildlife and birds truly breathtaking. I would recommend this trip to anyone wanting a true African Adventure.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great 1 day Safari in the Ngorongoro crater
I was able to book really spontaneous the Safari I wanted (as I only had one day) and our tour guide was not only super knowledgable about the animals and plants in the area and explained a lot, but he was also really nice and when I told him I really wanted to see more lions, he even spotted a lioness for me afterwards! Great experience! Thanks again to Ezekiel and Temba!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Most enjoyable safari with a very experienced tour guide
The booking process was efficiently handled by EA Exotic Safaris. the tour guide was Joseph who turned out to be incredibly good at spotting animals in the bush. Each of the hotels booked as part of the safari was excellent providing clean and spacious rooms and good food.
Fantastic climb of Kilimanjaro
Myself and three friends booked the eight day Lomosho route up Kilimanjaro. We could not have wished for a better time, we are all quite experienced mountaineers but the whole team looked after us from bottom to top and back to the bottom again. Everyone one of the team from the guides to the porters were great guys who went the extra mile to look after us and with a big smile on their faces as well. Could not have wished for a better experience.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful experience - can't wait for the next one!
I don't even know where to start! The personalized attention to detail I received throughout every step - planning, actual travel, and arriving home - was incredible. Justin and his team made sure everything was taken care of prior to my arrival and checked in throughout my travels. They treated me as though I was their only client - which is what all travel companies should do. And, really, they didn't treat me as a client - more as an old friend who was coming for a visit and they were eager to show me all that their beautiful home has to offer. Having Justin greet me at Cape Town International Airport was a very nice touch. It was great to finally meet the person I had been corresponding with for several months - it felt like talking to an old friend.
I couldn't have asked for a better experience and can't wait to work with PaperJet Travel again! Thank you, guys!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Thanks Brian and EWA crew for a fabulous safari and Kili climb!
Thanks Brian and EWA crew for a fabulous safari and Kili climb!
I recently returned from an outstanding Ecological Wilderness Adventures (EWA) wildlife safari with wildlife biologist friends in Kenya and Tanzania and I would enthusiastically recommend this professionally operated company to anyone. Our itinerary was complicated, orchestrated beautifully and in each place we saw most of what we hoped to see and so much more.
The Kenyan portion of the safari began in Nairobi, continuing on to Samburu, Lake Nakuru, Lake Navasha and Amboseli over a 10 day period. We had expert guiding by EWA owner, Brian Mengoriki, and his top-notch (and very funny!) associate, Gerald as well as excellent guides, Ken and Duncan from a Kenyan company that EWA partnered with in Kenya. In Tanzania we visited Tarangire, the Ngorogoro Crater, Ndutu, and the Central and Northern Serengeti over 13 days. There, another outstanding EWA guide, Amiri, joined Brian and Gerald and they are an awesome team…all so knowledgeable and expert at delivering not just the wildlife, but wildlife in action….and at photographic range! They have the knack for knowing when it's worth waiting patiently for things to happen and when time is better spent moving on. Our guides were keen on all species of wildlife, including birds which was important to most of the people in our group and they went all out to find what the group was interested in seeing. And these guys are all just great people who were a pleasure to spend all day, every day with for 3 weeks! There was no shortage of laughter either, our guides had a great sense of humor!
We stayed in various types of lodging from a large Sopa Lodge on the rim of Ngorogoro to comfortable tented camps where one could hear the intriguing sounds of the savanna throughout the night. All accommodations were excellent, but the tented camps were my favorite, particularly the ones owned and operated by EWA in the Central and Northern Serengeti. The staff there was especially gracious and the camps were situated in particularly wildlife rich areas. One night I awoke to the sound of munching and looked through the tent netting to see a wildebeest grazing in the moonlight just a few feet from my pillow. (However, there are guards patrolling all night to ensure clients don’t get munched!)
The food was delicious and plentiful. Picnic breakfasts and lunches eaten in the field were particularly enjoyable and enabled us to spend long hours in the savanna in search of animals.
The logistics of our complicated itinerary were managed beautifully. Brian and his crew were adept at satisfying divergent interests within the group and dealt quickly and easily with all unexpected circumstances that inevitably arise over a 3 week period.
In addition to sharing a wealth of information about wildlife, our guides educated us about the history, politics and diverse cultures of Kenya and Tanzania, including interesting visits to a multicultural village and a Maasai family compound.
EWA also arranged a pre-safari Kilimanjaro climb for me which was a rich and wonderful experience in itself. My guide, Dismas, had climbed the mountain 100’s of times (it was his office, he said), he was superbly competent and knowledgeable, great company, humorous and hadn’t run out of enthusiasm for guiding or for the mountain. We followed the interesting Machame Route through many different vegetation zones and Dismas, besides guiding me up the mountain, was able to explain much about the natural history along the way. Though he said at the beginning not to ask him about birds, it turned out he knew most of them. It was a pleasure to be on the mountain with someone who was so clearly well-liked and respected by the numerous other guides and porters we met along the route. Dismas had an excellent team of porters and a talented cook to support the climb. These amiable young men work with him regularly and went to great lengths to make the camping very comfortable and the food delicious.
Not only did we reach the summit, but we descended into the crater and up again to the rim of yet another crater within the larger crater where one looks down into yet a third crater, the Ash Crater. It was a fantastic, little-visited site, with amazing views and smells of the dramatic volcanic landscape, the walls streaked with yellow sulfur and the odor of sulfur hanging in the cool, still air…a special and totally unexpected opportunity!
I should mention that my luggage with all my climbing gear did not arrive on the KLM flight with me and when it showed up a day late and at the last minute, I discovered important items had been stolen. EWA staff filed all the paperwork with the airline for me and Dismas obtained rental gear to substitute for my losses so I could proceed on the climb as scheduled. I’m grateful to EWA staff for dealing efficiently with the problem so no time was lost getting to the mountain. KLM did eventually fully reimburse me for my losses.
The whole experience, from the climb through the safari was fabulous and exceeded all my expectations!