35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
I couldn’t imagine a better tour guide than Tony!
This was an awesome experience. The kids loved it! We loved it! Tony was simply the best.
FI
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Simply amazing!!!
Choosing Lion King Adventures was the best thing! We recommend it very highly. From the planning to the end of the safari everything worked so well. The office staff replied very fast to all our questions.
Our guide Huruma is a gem! He is so passionate and talented in spotting the animals from far (without binoculars). A real eagle eye.
We felt safe all through our adventure, and he is a great driver too. He is also ethically the kind of guide we appreciate. He does not harrash the wildilfe and he does not waste food. The untouched food from lunch, that we could not finish (hot lunch, which was always very good and served on plates at the picnic areas with wine and beer if you want), was always given to the people working at the national parks (eg.toilets). These are the kind of little things that matter to us a lot!
We had some issues with our health; I am very bad with heat and my spouse had some stomach problems, and Huruma was so kind and understanding with our special needs. Always found a restroom when needed (the restrooms in the parks are good btw.) and turned the ac on in the jeep, when the roof was down, so I could tolerate the heat better. Drinks in the jeep's fridge were always cold which made my life with the heat a lot easier.
Jeep was always so clean in the morning eventhou after the safari day it was covered in dust.
The advantage of taking a private jeep, is that you can really tailor your own adventure. Huruma was very flexible when we wanted to change some plans due to our health issues and we also trusted him making some changes of plans based on his knowledge. Eg.instead of heading straight to Central Serengeti, we did a detour to southern Serengeti and that ended up being a great call.
Huruma is a guide that knows a lot, tells interesting things and answers all our questions, but can also enjoy the silence when you just want to feel the nature around you. The balance is everything. He has great sense of humour and he became like a friend to us in 5 days. We feel like we were lucky to get him as our guide.
Lion King is Tanzanian owned with Tanzanian bank account, which is what you should be looking for. We want our money to go to the locals not to Europe or US. We owe that to the locals when we are so fortunate that we get the chance to enjoy their nature and wildlife.
Also most of the accommodation we booked (Kubu kubu, Eileen's trees inn, Karatu Simba lodge) are Tanzanian owned. All this made us very happy travellers. The above accommodations were all great and atmospheric! (Midrange-luxury)
We were very lucky with the wildlife, spotted even the big five! So many zebras, wildebeest, elephants, lions, giraffes and some leopards, cheetahs, rhinos, hippos, buffalos. We could not be happier with what we experienced.
If we went back, we would choose Lion King again and request for Rafiki (a friend) Huruma to be our guide again!
AR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing experience in Uganda looking for Gorillas
This a very professional company.
They organize everything for your trip
You go to very nice hotels
They make your trip in Uganda unforgettable.
ID
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The most helpful and courteous people you will meet, always pleasant and a very happy attitude.
The wife and I had an amazing adventure during our 4 day safari in Tanzania. The Big 5 were all spotted by the amazing sharp eyes of our guide and friend Lucas. He was so patient and good natured, chatting and openly communicating with us as we wandered through the endless grass plains spotting Cheetah, Leopards, Lions, Hyenas and all the other game animals. The first day we saw herds of Elephant in Tarangire and the last day in the crater we saw a Rhinoceros grazing. Perfect job well done by the team of Sandpiper Safaris.
We spotted all sorts of birds and creatures great and small, Lucas new every one of them, it was like having a young David Attenborough on the journey with you to give you loads of information about the animals, birds, terrain, environment and eating habits of everything.
Truly a most wonderful and amazing adventure.
Thank you Mr. Abouh, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Gasto. We had a fantastic adventure and its all because of your help.
AE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
He was very knowledgeable, and reliable
Best tour guides ever they are worth every penny n
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Best time of my life.
I just returned from six-days safari in tanzania. i am very setisfied with the safari company. everything was arranged very well, the guide was fantastic, friendly and funny. we had lot of fun and saw lot of animals. thanks Anwar for making this safari a memorable one, i will definitely come back soon.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Magical experience with Suricata Safari
Trustworthy and nice agency
The team did everything for us to live a magical experience
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience!
Cool, that was awesome. The food was excellent, the tents were spacious and comfortable. And the safari tour is absolutely sublime. Incredible memories. Thanks again to all the staff for their kindness, they were attentive throughout.
Perfect.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
5 Amazing Days in the Serengeti
We just returned Friday Jan 27th from the most amazing 5 days in Serengeti. I dealt with Lightness at Easy Travel, and she is patient, knowledgeable and just so very nice to deal with. We probably went through at least 10 itineraries before we found the perfect one for us. I can’t praise Lightness enough. We arrived in Kilimanjaro on Saturday pm, we were met by Hussein, who took great care and got us safely to the coffee plantation(free upgrade due to overbooking!) we were delayed at the airport due to lost luggage. The team at Easy, Actually Lightness, took over after all the paperwork was filled out and worked hard to get the two pieces of luggage out to us while on Safari. We flew from Arusha to Serena airstrip early Sunday am. Our incredible Guide, Emilian met us at the airport and the adventure began. We had a morning drive, which was amazing, lion with an elephant kill and silver back jackels trying to sneak a snack. We then headed to Tortilis camp, our home for the next three nights. This was also fantastic, right in the middle of it all. The staff there was amazing and the food superb. The evening soups alone would have sustained me. Went out for an afternoon drive on Sunday as well. Monday and Tuesday were full days, with a delicious lunch packed by our attentive hosts at Tortilis. Emilian is the best guide in all of the Serengeti. He showed us everything you could possibly want to see and then some. He knows the animals and birds so well, a guide with a google like brain. In one day, we saw a leopard, tons of cheetahs, including a cheetah chase and get a reed buck, giraffes, elephants, lions, zebras, wildebeests, a cheetah with her three cubs, a lion lounging in a tree and ultimately lions mating! We watched the pair for over an hour, we were the only truck there and they were about ten yards away, surreal. We got back to the camp as the last light was in the sky. Tuesday, we made our way towards the great migration as well as tons of giraffes, also the lions who had walked through our camp the night before! On Wed we headed to Ngorongoro, stopping just outside the park entrance to get the most unbelievable view of the great migration. Ngorongoro has so many animals, however we did manage to spot and watch a black rhino. This is a nutshell version of an amazing, perspective changing few days. Call Lightness tomorrow and book your trip!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Tarangire National Park by Lamia Zafrani
We started our safari here, it’s a great park to start in, you see elephants giraffes and zebra as well as lions in relative close proximity. It’s less open like Serengeti or ngorogoro so it does feel more like a park than ‘nature’ if you understand what I mean but that doesn’t take away from its beauty.