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65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Serengeti National Park by Bob Gunderson
The Serengeti should rate high in everyone's safari agenda. Its vastness and and animal population make it one of my favorite safari destinations.
Selinda Game Reserve 5-Stars
The staff at Selinda Game Reserve is accommodating, charming, and truly proud to be there. We enjoyed our time with them almost as much as seeing the wildlife. Our guides were the best that we experienced in Botswana, and we were incredibly lucky with the diversity of animals that we were able to encounter.
Additionally, the facilities at the camp with fantastic.
We highly recommend Selinda Game Reserve.
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65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Tanzania by Bob Gunderson
Home to some of the best safari parks in the worlds.
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65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Nomad Tanzania by Bob Gunderson
I cannot imagine that there are more knowledgeable guides and that camp are first-rate.
Review about Ngorongoro Crater by Alistair Tough
This is one of the outstanding tourist destinations in East Africa
Review about Serengeti National Park by Alistair Tough
This is one of the outstanding tourist destinations in East Africa
Review about Selous Game Reserve by Alistair Tough
Driving in from the Uluguru mountains gave a particularly pleasing experience.
Review about Ruaha National Park by Alistair Tough
In the dry season the wildlife congregates around the river pools. I have happy memories of watching two male hippos contesting the right to occupy one pool: they used excrement-spraying and eventually worked who was dominant without the use of violence. We stayed in the main safari lodge which was excellent with wonderful views from the dining area
Off the beaten track, kweli
There were many highlights of our week in Katavi, including a dramatic encounter between buffaloes and lionesses (which the buffaloes won) and a wonderful sighting of bee-eaters working as an extended family (parent birds plus previous year's adolescents) collecting insects on the edege of the flood plain. Perhaps the most evocative was sitting in camp beside a camp fire and realising that a herd of elephants was quietly walking past just a few yards behind us. We stayed with Fox safaris and spent a few days at Lazy Lagoon before transferring to Katavi. They managed the transfers well and the accommodation and food was superb. There were just two other guests in their camp and only 8 visitors in the entire park whilst we were there. So this felt like a real wilderness rather than a replicated experience.
Review about Tanzania by Alistair Tough
I have travelled widely in Tanzania (and elsewhere). It is a big country with lots of contrasts. Special highlights - beyond the obvious - include: Mafia Island which has wonderful diving in a relatively shallow lagoon (enabling snorkellers to see a lot); the Usambara Mountains with the lovely old German rest house at Amani and the deafening dawn chorus of trumpeter hornbills; and the excavated ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani.