20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Highly recommended wild coast photo tour with photos, experiences and memories for a lifetime!
We spent 8 days in June on the Wandering the Wild Coast Photo Workshop organised by Tailor Made Safaris and Emil von Maltitz, a tour aimed at photographing the stunning beaches, mountains, waterfalls and myriad other features along a portion of the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape. On trips like this, our aim is to learn new techniques and tips to improve our photography, take a few memorable photos, see some new and spectacular sights and have a good fun holiday in the process. The trip was all that and much more. Our guide on this trip, Emil, in addition to being a wonderful and passionate photographer, is incredibly knowledgable about both the theory and practice of virtually any aspect of photography that we asked him about...the perfect combination for a photo guide when your key objective is to learn and improve. Photography and sights aside, the trip was booked and carried out with almost clockwork precision in spite of a few of our stops being in places with no roads or electricity, let alone cell phone reception. The catering was varied, ample and delicious and the stay extremely comfortable throughout.
This was our second photo trip with Tailor Made Safaris and Emil and something tells me that it will not be our last!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Nairobi National Park by missbaxter
We stayed at the Nairobi Tent Camp in Nairobi National Park. Really nice accommodations. Hot water bottles in the beds and morning french-pressed coffee delivered to tents was a really nice touch. We saw black and white rhino within the first 24 hours of entering the park. Two visits to David Sheldricks Wildlife Trust center in Nairobi was life-changing.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amboseli National Park was amazing for wildlife, and my accommodations were perfect.
My group was able to see a lot of wildlife, including elephants and cheetahs. We stayed at Tortilis Camp. The accommodations were really nice, with great service and really good food. I highly recommend a visit to Amboseli and a stay at Tortilis.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unbelievable experience seeing wide variety of animals and meeting wonderful fellow travelers.
Unbelievable experience starting with arriving in a bush plane, viewing a wide a variety of animals including wild dogs, lions, cheetahs and leopards and enjoying our stay at Kwara. Tracking the animals was exciting and our guides were fantastic.
At Amboseli National Park (Kenya) you are guaranteed to meet the African plains elephant
Between the dates of June 21st - 26th 2015, I was at Amboseli National Park in Kenya, a park that is four hours drive away from the capital city in Nairobi. Alternatively you have flights from Wilson airport in Nairobi. At the entrance of the park we were greeted with a heavy presence of a stern but friendly security agents.
The park, located on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa (the highest free standing mountain on earth); boasts a high concentration of African plains elephants and a healthy population of spotted hyenas. I didn't get to see lions but felt their presence every night as they declared their dominance of the animal kingdom with roars that silenced all night sounds including the sounds of night insects.
The temperatures at the park varied from hot during the day to relatively cold at night. But I enjoyed my stay at Amboseli Serena lodge where they had extra beddings for those averse to cold nights like me. The food at my hotel was satisfactory and the breakfast superb.
The community surrounding the park are a friendly lot and add to the relaxed atmosphere. A downside to my stay at the park was that the game drives are a dusty affair and I should have carried a dust mask with me. Overall I give Amboseli a thumbs up for the elephant population.
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by Travelling Rats
Incredible, and unique Rhino viewing, which we can only hope will remain for many years to come!
A great way to spend a day in Africa
We have been fortunate to visit many Safari Park in both South Africa and across South Africa, and our day visit to Addo Elephant Park did not disappoint. Being short of time we could only spare the day for our visit, but it proved to be a great day safari location, easily accessible from Port Elizabeth and Port Alfred. We started our visit early in the morning at the Southern entrance to the park which meant there was far fewer cars on the road than the areas up around the main cam. We were spoilt with magnificient sightings of both Elephant and Buffalo herds. We didn't see any of the big cats, but others in the area did our timing was just a little off.
The bush in many places in Addo is very thick which can make spotting game a bit challenging at times. As we only visited for the day I can not comment on accommodation, however we did visit the restaurant at the main camp and were very impressed by the meal. Everything from arriving, purchasing our day pass and moving around the park worked efficiently and the park appears to be very well run. We will certainly visit again if we are lucky enough to find ourselves in this part of the world again.
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
It was such a beautiful experience!
People in Tanzania were very friendly and helpful. The nature and its Wildlife is much more beautiful as we expected. Especially the Camp in the serengeti, where we followed the Migration was undescribable!!! Food and camps were excellent during the whole Journey!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Kenya by missbaxter
We stayed in Amboseli National Park 2 nights and Nairobi National Park 2 nights before heading into Tanzania. I loved both places in Kenya, and enjoyed sights around Nairobi too.
Review about Kenya by nyotsz
For over 23 years I have managed to travel to various destinations in Kenya and noted that Kenya is one of the few places on earth that you can experience extreme diversity in culture and physical features ranging from the ocean, various lakes, desert tropical rainforest and the only snow capped mountain along the equator. All these is capped with a very friendly people.