MT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A truly Escape to Adventure experience!
Escape to Adventure Safari were our Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe itinerary help and it was truly well organised as they handled all our logistics and site visits in an excellent manner. Special thanks go to Kuda and Stuart, the guides of Escape to Adventure Safaris who were so helpful, informative and excellent hosts. Without them, our 3 day visit would not have been as great an adventure as it really was.
MA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Trustworthy punctual and amazing
Everything worked clock work. Everything matched what was on the itinerary. Very happy with the service. Really enjoyed the tour. Lodge great. Car great. Tour guide very knowledgeable.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best value for your money
Bujo Tours did an exceptional job with making our first Safari experience a success.
Anthony went out of his way to make sure we saw as many animals as possible and provided us with a ton of information about them as well.
Highly recommend you book with Bujo
NL
Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A bit over-promised
All in all it was ok. The bus from Joburg to Hoedspruit was small, packed and warm. It had a flat tire when we left.
The 3 hour sunset tour felt a bit stingy as we were the only vehicle that looked worn out and we didn’t have any wine or beer during the snack moment. Only soft drinks and water. The other cars were very well taken care of with nice glasses etc.
The tour guides were amazing though.
MP
50-65 years of age
Fabulous, informative and well planed
Found MoAfrica on internet, all communication went smooth and got in the group tour the next day… Excellent organization :)
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful experience, everything perfect
Our guide John has been very kind and helpful. We saw a lot of animals during the safaris and interesting things.
The hotels were clean, good food and services.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Emile was knowledgeable, friendly, and entertaining.
We had 3-day safari to Akagera National park with Emile at Lion Safaris as our guide. Emile was knowledgeable, friendly, and entertaining. The safari experience was beyond our expectations with big 5 sightings and so much more. The accommodations at Ruzizi were also do much more than expected. We were serenaded by the hippos our night which only added to the experience. We highly recommend Emile to other travelers looking for a Rwanda safari adventure.
NZ
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Efficient, exceptionally responsive, great communication and organisation
We had an 8 day safari with Tales of Tanzania in September and then a short trip to Zanzibar. This has been a trip on our bucket list and all communication has been excellent and prompt from Pendo. She is been amazing in accommodating our requests. During our safari, our guide Dismas made every effort to make our trip special, our highlights were we saw the most amazing flock of two million flamingoes, a pride of lionesses with their cubs, male lions up close 5 feet away and the amazing wilder west river crossing. All our accommodation was very comfortable, the Melia at Ngorongoro was breathtaking with stunning views. I highly recommend Tales of Tanzania if you want to do this special trip, I thought their pricing was very competitive for the type of accommodation we had and we were very happy. Thank you Pendo and Dismas for an amazing time, A+++++
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent bespoke service
After much research we chose Wakanda for our once in a lifetime Honeymoon trip to Tanzania and could not have been more happy with our choice.
Before our adventure started I communicated with Aishwarya and together we planned our itinerary, she was very responsive to all of my requests and nothing was too much trouble. There are many tour operators offering safaris and Kilimanjaro treks and I narrowed my selection down to 3 companies but the main thing that swayed my decision was the fact that when I decided to add on internal flights at the start of the safari Aishwarya did not take advantage and charge me a ridiculous sum for which I knew were cheap flights. The other 2 companies wanted to charge me nearly £300 each for the same flights Wakanda offered me for £100, this is when I knew I could trust this company.
We decided to fly from Arusha to Northern Serengeti to avoid the long drive to the starting destination (I highly recommend this). We were met at the airstrip by Aishwarya our personal photographer and Edward our guide and driver. The Land Rover they supplied for our safari was perfect, clean comfortable, spacious and with the opening roof it had excellent viewing possibilities. Edward was very proud of his Land Rover and kept it clean and tidy at every opportunity. We drove a short distance from the airstrip and Edward quickly gave us our first animal sighting, a small group of elephants. We kept seeing Zebra and deer and wanted to stop to take pictures but on Edward's advice we carried straight to the river where after a short wait we were privileged to see our first wilder beast river crossing. We quickly learnt to take the expert advice of Edward as he had expert knowledge of the best way to see the animals. We were awestruck with the wilder beasts crossing the river and it was so nice to be able to just watch and take in the whole amazing spectacle without having to worry about taking poor iPhone pictures knowing Aishwarya was capturing everything on her huge telephoto camera. Within the space of 2 hours we had ticked off 2 of the big 5 (elephant and buffalo) and seen a big migration crossing, a brilliant start to our 6 day safari.
As the evening approached we headed to our first migration camp, Camp Zebra. It was referred to as a tented accommodation but we have never seen tents like this before, it was more like a spacious cabin with a king size bed and a full en-suite toilet and shower, this definitely felt like luxury accommodation. Aishwarya's accommodation recommendations for this night and every other night were brilliant and could not be faulted. The food served in the mess tent was excellent as was the packed lunch supplied by each camp for the next day. I say packed lunch but in reality it was far better than that, Edward had a fully equipped large picnic hamper with insulated stainless steel bowls which were filled each day with hot delicious food which were served to us with a lovely glass of wine in the most amazing scenic locations. We travelled long distances each day with Edward guiding us to perfect animal encounters and sharing his knowledge of the area and animal behaviour along the way, there was always something new and exciting to look at each day. Whenever we saw animals Edward would position us perfectly to observe them and Aishwarya would take the most amazing close up photos for us. I was surprised how close we actually got to the animals. I thought we would be observing animals from a distance with binoculars but I was totally wrong, we got very close with the animals, often walking (or running in the case of the cheetahs we saw hunting) in front of the vehicle. Edward and Aishwarya were a great team who were a pleasure to be with on our long and exciting adventure and they felt like friends by the end of the safari, they enabled us to see all of the big 5 and much much more, they definitely exceeded our expectations of what a safari should be and we highly recommend asking for them if you book with Wakanda. Aishwarya was passionate about her photography and took many pictures of the animals and also of us, this was definitely a huge bonus as we did not return with loads of poorly taken selfies but with expertly edited professional photos which we will treasure forever.
Edward, Aishwarya, Daniel, Goddy and all of the porters made our honeymoon perfect and we cannot thank you all enough.
If you are looking for bespoke reasonably priced adventure of a lifetime then we definitely highly recommend Wakanda Safari and Tours.
P.S on our return Aishwarya sent us all of the beautiful professional photos she had taken with no charge. They were amazing!
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excelent, to exceed our expectations, very good
Warm welcome and high quality accommodation. Wonder and emotion at each outing
Competent guide and eager to share and discover this exceptional faune, he made us see thé bit five and much moré good communication of French and English.
This safari and its guide are exceptional++
