IL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An unforgettable trip to the African safari
We spent 5 unforgettable days in a Tanzania safari. Our journey began by arriving in Arusha, where we spent the night at a local hotel and the next morning moved towards Tarangiri Park where we met for the first time in our life with animals in their natural habitat. Many animals - big and kind elephants and small gazelles. We spent the night in Sangaiwe lodge where there is an excellent view of the entire valley and you can watch animals from the comfort of your home. Great food, very tasty, especially in the company of our guide Aaron and other travelers sharing their impressions. After Tarangiri, Manyara Lake followed. Again many animals and birds, beautiful views. In the middle of the day, stop to eat and relax, each hotel prepared us a lunch box, which we ate with pleasure. Everything is organized, convenient, high-class hotels and lodges, spacious rooms, comfortable beds, the company took care of everything. Thank you so much! On the way to the Serengeti, we drove along the top of the Ngorongoro volcano, it was raining, and it was fabulously beautiful in the rain and a terrible road, which our guide and driver did very well. We spent two days in the Serengeti, spent the night in a Wild Africa Camp in the heart of the Serengeti, a wonderful camp, also tasty, comfortable, people are beautiful, smiling and welcoming. A guitar and a bonfire overlooking thunderstorms somewhere on the horizon, rain at night, morning sun. We finished our trip by descent into the crater of the Ngorongoro volcano. It’s just a paradise, which animals are not there! We rested on a lake with hippos, a fabulous place, you can get out of the car and watch the hippos right on the shore.
Many thanks to our guide Aaron, an experienced, caring and patient guy. We observed many animals - elephants, monkeys, wild boars, hippos, lions, gazelles and different types of antelopes, crocodile, chit, even a leopard on a tree, hyenas, buffalos, giraffes, zebras, jackals, flamingos and pelicans.
Our journey ended with a flight to Zanzibar, where the company took care of a beautiful hotel for us, including a transfer.
I would like to note the excellent organization of the whole trip, and special thanks to the organizer Nestor and guide Aaron - wonderful people and specialists in their field who took care that we got the best impressions of our trip.
NG
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
Everything was perfect. The food, the accommodation and the tour
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Mt Kilimanjaro hike dream fulfilled
I had a dream that one day I'll travell and see Africa especially Mt Kilimanjaro.Am glad that IAA has fulfilled my wish.our guide was very professional and we hiked via Marangu route and i really enjoyed it.Am looking foward to come back again with my friends and use IAA because you guys are so amazing
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A great trip with Wamba Gorilla Tours
Wamba Gorilla Tours organized a great trip. It was well organised, well equipped, reliable, friendly and save. We saw a lot of animals, our guide new where to find them. A very nice trip with a great team. Thanks you so much!
HR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent service, a looot of hippos :D
My friend and me did 3 days tour to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. I was a bit scared to go as 2 girls alone, because of different stories i read, but i never ever felt endanger.
Our tour guide was Onan. I have to say that Onan, beside his great personality, has excellent driving skills. One time it was so stormy and foggy, we were going up the hill on muddy cliff road, i was so scared, but Onan drove all the way up and down without problem. Eh, if you have experience of traveling in Africa, you will know why i am mentioning driving skills. Trust me, it is very important.
We had spacious 4x4 land cruiser.
We saw all big 5. However, we saw only 2 tree climbing lions, but it can happen that you see many or none... who knows, maybe you will see more :). I am also glad that we saw leopard from a super close distance. Onan was never making pressure on us to hurry up, he let us stay anywhere as long as we wanted. He would spend a whole day driving around safari and he has great knowledge. We saw so many hippos, birds and elephants. And hippos were animals which i wanted to see so badly... hehe, now i can tell i saw 100s of them (when we did a boat ride on Kazinga channel)... Oh, and to not forget! We saw a crocodile literally one meter from us!!
Also, since his family lived nearby, we asked him if we could visit his village/city and if they could prepare for us traditional food. He accepted :)), that made us happyyyy... the best fish i ate in Uganda!! Please, if he is your tour guide, let him bring you there... or maybe a suggestion for Mega Wild Safaris, include visit to his fisherman village to the tour :)... even there you can see some elephants or buffalos (one was maybe 30 to 50 meters from us when we were walking :D)...
Before safari, i communicated with Anne. She is clear, fast and efficient. Great management skills!
About the accommodation, we decided to organize our own... i was familiar with accommodation in the region so it was fine, but if you are not, then better let them organize it for you.
I would definitely take a tour with them again! Maybe next time Gorilla tour, since they are also doing that one :))
Thanks for everything, you are great! :)
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Visit Mount Kenya Tours always makes our safari trips memorable
I run student trips from the University of Brighton to Kenya every year and have done for the past 10 years. On each visit we conclude our community collaborations wih a safari and I happily employ Visit Mount Kenya Tours every time. I have gotten to know the proprieter, Rufus, very well over this time. He is reliable, honest,helpful and very friendly. As are the people he employs as safari guides. Each year is different but every time the safari amazes me. Rufus and his staff are very knowledgeable and use their knowledge and expertise to communicate with you to make your safari a special and safe udenttrip that will live long in your memory.
Vist Mount Kenya Tours offer great value for money. Because our trips consist of students with very little money we tend to stay in economy campsites but these are clean and comfortable with all the facilities you could want. As long as I run these student trips to Kenya I will happily continue to employ Rufus and his staff to organise our safaris for us. It gives me great pleasure to offer this recommendation.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Scam alert - be careful when booking this company with fake reviews
Be careful when booking this company. The agent Jose that works for this company also worked for Bimos Travel which has recently come out as a huge scam. I highly suggest checking out the reviews on Bimos Travel before booking with this company.
TN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful and Amazing Safari
All what we have done was as in a dream. It was our honeymoon, so our expectations were really high.
The most impressive point was the driver FOSTEN who has a big knowledge and experience about animals. We saw all the big five with lot other types of animals. At all the step of the trip, Fosten was present and gives us all informations we need with great explanations about the reserve and jungle.
Accomodation was also one the positives: security and safety are guaranteed.
The program was fulfilled and more that what we expected.
I recommend strongly this safari and even plan to do it again...
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great tour with very knowledgeable guide
Natural World Kenya Safaris provides a great safari experience. Our fantastic tour guide Robinson Ngigi has an exceptional knowledge of the flora and fauna in the region. He is very friendly and always goes the extra mile for his customers. We could not have asked for a better one and highly recommand his services.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Our guide Ben was nice but disinterested--he drove us to each place but stayed in the car mostly.
Communications from our coordinator Francis were great. He was responsonsive and great at answering our questions. The safari tour was a bit below expectations. Our guide would start driving when we were still trying to take pictures when we did see animals and overall didn't have much patience to go find/wait for more.
We also ended up getting to the baby elephant sanctuary 10 mins late for the show and the guide did not help us find a good spot. Spent the whole show looking between people's shoulders trying to get a peep. Very frustrating.
Giraffe conservatory was very fun and probably the highlight as we got to feed the animals but he was again not involved at all.
We made some random stop at the Kazuri beads factory which was sorta interesting but was just a stop to have more tips extracted from us.
Karen Blixen museum was okay and a self guided tour. He didn't even know that was in the itinerary and we had to remind him to call his boss to verify. He then tried to pawn us off to another guide at the museum which would just give us yet another person to pay which felt kind of weird.
Overall the guide Ben was a nice guy but just not engaged at all with providing us a good experience. Everything felt very transactional and very different from the safari/Kilimanjaro experience we just had in Tanzania.