50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great volunteering and safari experience.
Prior to coming on my trip I had plenty of opportunity to speak to the owners to make sure my trip was organised to cater for my wish to combine volunteering at the school and seeing some of the safari opportunities in Uganda. Bunyonyi View Gorilla Packers was a comfortable place to stay with friendly and helpful staff. The setting by the lake is beautiful. Volunteering at the school was a life changing experience and it was great to spend time with the children. While I was there I was able to go on safari to Queen Elizabeth National Park where I saw a good range of wildlife-the boat trip along the Kazinga channel was a highlight. I also had the opportunity to go on a boat trip on Lake Bunyonyi and to take a forest walk. I would recommend this as a great way to spend time with the children and teachers and appreciate their way of life and also to see some of the amazing landscapes and wildlife of Uganda.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
3-day Budget safari
Booked a 3-day Budget Group Safari (in tents) with Shika based on some online reviews. While we experienced a bumpy start with quite a delay – mostly due to other customers not showing up to the trip – once we were rolling, things went totally fine. We ended up having a private safari after all, the drivers were well-informed and showed us some great animal spots, lots of game, the Big Five and colourful birds. Those three parks – Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro – are just unique places. The nights were spent in a simple but clean, friendly and safe Tent Lodge in Mto Wa Mbu, called Fanaka, with good food. Shika is a small, young, African-owned company that competes with big, mostly Establishment-/American-/European owned travel agencies and while honestly not everything went smooth, after all we had a great experience, got a really great value for our money and the guys are nice and try everything to make you feel good.
Experience level: over 5 safaris
Chitake
Went to Chitake, Zimbabwe with Natureways sharing their temporary camp with another group who had their own guide with vehicle. We therefore had the sole use of Natureways vehicle and guide who they supplied at a much lower price than if we had gone with our own guide and Andy the Natureways guide was excellent.
The camp staff were always helpful and friendly and a credit to the company, the meals were good and the drinks were nice and cold which is much needed in the heat at Chitake. The only failing was the quality of the tent whose zips were always jamming and breaking, not good when you are trying to get in in the dark so they need to upgrade or repair the zips.
Overall though thoroghly enjoyed our trip to Chitake with Natureways and would recommend them to anyone thinking of going there.
IT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
fantastic safari
the safari was really good, we saw all the animal, leopard, elefant, gireffe , a big family of leopard , buffallo and many others.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
it was awesome, timely feeedback went out of their way to provide my family with the best room!
Communication was fast! Service surpassed expectations!
NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We had a great safaritrip, but there some points to improve
The communicatie before we came to Tanzania was good. Paying the bill with their payment system is costly
(10%). You better pay with your own bankaccount.
We did the trip with basic camp. It was very nice to camp in the national parcs, and Fanakacamping was good. Multiways didin't have good chairs compared with other company"s. Also the tents smells stale. Multiways must improve this points.
The Management of Serengetiparc en Gnorognoro crater didin't clean there buidings on the campings very well. It was very dirty. We abhors that. This problem must be solved by the Management of the Serengeti and Gnorognoro and all the safaricompany's from Arusha must tell this to the management. That is the only way to achieve clean buildings.
But the guide of Multiways -safari was our best man. We had the best places to watch the animals. We have seen a lot. We had had a great safari. Also the food was good.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Dedicated
The Safariline Defender line of Specialists are ever ready to manage expectations of your safari experience and more over are dedicated to make it a great experience. I have chosen Safariline Defender a number of times over the years to plan and make my safari experience a worth while one each and every time.
AE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good experience!
My wife and I went on a safari to Lake Nakuru (1 day) and Masai Mara (2 nights) in September 2016 during the Eid break in Dubai and it was simply amazing.
We were welcomed in Nairobi by Aruni, our guide/driver, who stayed with us the whole time. Aruni was very helpful in all situations, and we got to know the region, its people and its fauna quite well thanks to his explanations, stories and jokes. Ask for him if you were to book with Karibu.
Few points we were actually a bit disappointed about Karibu:
- Robert told us before the trip that we would be able to do a late game drive on the 1st evening we went to Masai Mara as well as 2 full days game drive the next days and finally a last early morning game drive on our last day before returning to Nairobi. However, this was not achievable and we only did the two full days game drive. Not that we wanted to do more, but I feel like the guys based in Nairobi overestimate their capacities and what they can deliver.
- Robert also gave us the names of the hotels where we were supposed to sleep but once in Kenya, we slept in different ones.
- Finally, Robert had confirmed to us before our trip that we would be provided with binoculars but it was not the case, which you can imagine is very disappointing especially when you can see rhinos about 500m from your car (and you can't get closer because the road stops) and you don't have binoculars to observe them.
Apart from those three points above, the trip went very well and Aruni was an amazing guide/driver.
IE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
knowlegeable Local operator
We googled for a safari operator in Northern Tanzania, and found bookings Tanzania safaris, sent our inquiry and got timely response. The owner, Wilbert Makunja, seemed to be sharp and full of knowledge; got our quote within hours for a short trip to the Serengeti. We had no knowledge of other interesting parks but when we received our quote it was nicely detailed -mentioned other parks that we hardly knew- Tarangire, Manyara and Ngorongoro. Although our plan was to tour Serengeti (five days) and do a U-turn to Ireland, given reasonable price (if we got one!). Price was reasonable, we were amazed that we could do more within five days, We travelled as family (couple and a 12yr daughter). Very interesting trip, great welcome from the time we landed Kilimanjaro Airport, received by Wilbert and a driver, taken to our hotel.Tanzania is a great country, very smiling people! We enjoyed the wildlife (plentiful of it), Maasai tour, crater and our highlight- The Serengeti (the open zoo). Can't finish without mentioning our driver- Hakim, friendly and polite.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very organized in the schedule, was able to experience the native culture of Kenya
The hotel was just what we expected, a very comfortable stay. A little discomfortable in the ride, but the lion was worth the ride .