50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
A pleasant surprise
The Mountain Zebra National Park was recommended to us by people we met in another park. We weren’t too convinced, but decided to go see for ourselves. What a pleasant surprise.
The park is surrounded by beautiful mountains, with a central grassland plateau, covered with wild flowers during the time we were there (April). Although most of the roads within the park are gravel, it’s well maintained and accessible to all motor vehicles. The rest camp has a number of cottages and a beautiful camp site. The cottages are quite modern, comfortable and well equipped for self-catering. The cottages are serviced daily. There is a restaurant and a well-stocked shop in the rest camp. The restaurant has a very basic menu. We did not visit the restaurant, as we self-catered. There is a swimming pool in the rest camp and another swimming pool in the separate picnic area.
We saw an abundance of mountain zebra, black wildebeest, springbok and blesbok on the grassland plateau. In the thicket surrounding the plateau, we saw gemsbok, hartebeest, kudu and eland. Most of the antelope in the park are easy to spot and they generally go about their business without giving much attention to the visitors. We fleetingly saw some black-backed jackals and two of the rhinos in the park. The best sighting however, was the two male lions. They walked within touching distance past our vehicle. To complete our list of sightings, we also saw monkeys, baboons, ground squirrels and a number of different bird species. Not seeing the cheetahs, hyenas or buffalo, was a bit of a disappointment. I would therefore recommend visitors to go on the guided game drives to improve their chances of seeing the more elusive animals.
I have visited a number of national parks in South Africa and would definitely recommend this park for its accommodation, beautiful scenery and abundance of animals. It is a small park and a three - to four night stay should be sufficient to explore the park and enjoy the scenery.
Nice, easy game drive right in the city
Nairobi National Park provides a great game drive experience, at an affordable price, without leaving Nairobi city. The park is much smaller than other, more famous East African parks, like the Maasai Mara or the Serengeti or even Nakuru National Park. It's big advantage lies in it accessibility.
There are plenty of safari companies that do tours of the park in the standard pop-top vans or Land Rovers. You can also drive into the park yourself, which plenty of people do. The roads are all dirt and can be rough and dusty in some places, but a small SUV can handle most of it without too much trouble. This is how I experienced the park on my one visit, and we didn't feel like we missed anything. If fact, we even beat the professional safari vehicles to a couple of lion sightings.
The density of animal life in the park is fantastic. On one two hour tour we saw lions, giraffe, ostriches, warthogs, baboons and other monkeys, more birds than I could identify, and more. The scenery is beautiful, but you can see the city at the periphery from most places in the park. For some, that will ruin the ambiance, but it's not so hard to block that out and enjoy this park for what it is: a beautiful, wild, and somehow also very accessible and affordable mini-safari destination right at the edge of one of Africa's greatest cities.
A great tour seeing some amazing countries with wonderful scenery and wildlife
The pre-tour comms were great; the tour lived up to expectations
NL
Best birdguide ever and very friendly person, who want to make your trip unforgetable
Frank is a very friendly guide who arranged your trip from beginning to the end perfectly. You can ask him everything you want what you prefer to see in Uganda and he will arranged it. He knows everything about his country, all about nature, very excelent bird-guiding, but also he likes to invite you by the local people. And yes that makes your roundtrip special. Because Uganda people are very friendly. All together makes Frank proud of his beautifull country. So i recommend Frank to all of you who is interesting in making a roundtrip through Uganda (or/and Rwanda) Safari Njema=goede reis.
NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Frank loves Uganda. Uganda loves him.
Frank is not only a professional, but a very kind person as well. Always in a good mood and ready to help the tourist. He is Always in the background, but taking care of everything and everyone. And maybe Obvious: but he knows everything about the country, the people and the nature.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great safari planners
Wow experience! Me and my fiance Richard had a 3 days budget safari in uganda. Thanks to Mark and pamora safaris the experience was remarkable
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing scenery
Both from the water (kokomo) and from the air (helicopter) the Okavango is an amazing landscape. We weren't lucky with the weather during our bush camp but it was still a good experience to see the canals an islands.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Tarangire Day Trip!!
I had a good time with Come and See Adventures, we have seen half of the big 5, accommodation and meals was super! I recommend the company to all.
EC
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
very good, I will use again if that is the case
Wonderful experience about the tour.
The bad or sad part was the Hotel. The quality of the service need to be improved.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Paid less and received more.
It was a Great time having travelled with L'hoest Safaris for my 4 days in uganda. I enjoyed and just say they offered me more that I expected.