DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
great tour..private guide..nice tent hotel..big 5 in 1 day
great tour..private guide..nice tent hotel..big 5 in 1 day
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Safari Experience
My wife and I just returned from an 8-day safari with Afrishare Trekking and Safaris to Tarangire, the Serengeti, the Great Migration, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, and Materuni Falls and coffee plantation. Wow.
While our experiences with the animals, landscape, and people were amazing, our exeprinces with Afrishare were even better.
We booked on Viator after reading the 100 reviews (almost all 5 stars) and immediately received personalized communication from the owner Ibrahim. Whenever we had a question, Ibrahim promptly responded in a very helpful manner.
The first morning of the safari our guide Freddy was there and was genuinely happy to meet us. Freddy is very knowledgeable (7 years experience), pleasant, polite, fun, and dedicated to meeting our needs to make our adventure memorable. He succeeded.
Afrishare is a smaller safari company, and we think that is what allowed for the dedicated and personalized service we received.
The vehicle was comfortable (pop-top extended Land Cruiser) in excellent condition. The roads are tough on these vehicles, but Freddy regularly checked it over and was quick to seek care if the vehicle appeared to need it (like a 10 minute clutch adjustment).
The accommodations were superb. My favorite was the Acacia Serengeti Camp. Luxe tented rooms from which you look directly into the Serengeti. Immersion with great comfort.
Go with Afrishare. Ask for Freddy. You will not be disappointed. We will next time!
6 stars.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Nice trip
Staff are very welcoming. Had a nice trip on a budget basis. Tour, site seeing, safari went well and even liked the lodging facility.
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome
Absolutely perfect
Memorable Experience. Soul of Tanzania showed a total professionalism from the first email we exchanged with Louis (journey designer), replaying to emails quickly, sometimes in minutes. Adapting the trip to our needs, finding solutions to any request. The guide (Vincent) fantastic, attentive to everything we needed, always smiling, friendly, speaking a very good Spanish and able to take us to the right place just at the perfect time. We saw the big 5, with lions walking very close to us, elephants, hippos, cheetah, leopard, crocodile, giraffes, buffalo, vultures, baboons, zebras ..... Unforgettable and 100% recommendable experience
FR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Exceed your expectations
To Succeed Your Photo Safari in Botswana One Solution:
Get Tony and his team.
This is already the second time and each time the number of big cats is unbelievable.
Always in the right place at the right time for a photographer it's pure happiness.
The camp is still located in the heart of the park very comfortable with these new tents.
Thank you Tony for your kindness and your good mood as well as your professionalism.
Highly recommended
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A magical and exciting trip to see the natural beauty of Kenya, the Rift Valley and its animals.
Copy of Tripadviser Review.
We spent 10 days travelling around Amboseli Reserve, Lake Naivasha, Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Masai Mara. We travelled some 2,000km over a lot of dusty and bumpy roads to visit the game parks.
All the accomidation was varied and all very enjoyable.
Our driver/tour guide, Norman, was terrific. He drove us in a well maintained Toyota LWB Landcruiser with Pop Top.
Animal viewing from the vehicle was comfortable and spectacularly close to the animals. The vehicle was tough and perfect for the task.
Norman is a local Kenyan resident and was a font of knowledge and good company as well. Norman was also a great help in buying things along the way like Masai Shukas (Shukas are a colorful Masai blanket and a really good momento and a great gift to take back. Cost is about $USD 7-10) plus lovely fresh bananas and bottled water. Thank you Norman!!
We used Credit Cards where necessary and had no problems. We converted some $USD at the government exchange Bureau for Kenyan Shilling. The exchange rate is roughly $1USD to 100 Kenyan Shilling. It was good to have some local currency for the odd purchase at the markets.
The food at each resort was good and we generally had a large buffet brekfast, coming back for lunch and a rest some days and back out in the late afternoon. We always had a big buffet dinner after a long day out with the animals. The resorts would also pack a lunch if we wanted to stay out for the whole day.
The viewing of animals was superb and Norman got us to see the "Big Five", the Mass Migration and the Mara River mass crossing.
Amboseli Resort, Lake Nakuru Sopa Resort, Lake Nakuru Sopa Resort were probably 5 star. Masai Mara Mara River Camp were we stayed in tents was probably 3-4 star and all were very enjoyable and friendly. The Masai Mara River Camp was at least as enjoyable as the 5 star places.
At night we were very close to the animals.
It was usual to be escorted to and from your accom after dark.
The Rift Valley was just spectacular and vast. It runs from Tanzania to Mozambique and is simply stunning and full of grasslands and animals.
The temperature throughout was a very comfortable mid 20sC even though the Parks are mostly along the equator. The altitude moderates the climate around Nairobi and all the parks.
10 days is probably long enough. If you are short of time 7 days would also work if you drop off one or two of the lake destinations. Flying into the parks is an option if you are time or health challeged.
Natural World Kenya Safaris were organised, had excellent staff and I would recommend. The only error was our ride to the airport was mixed up and Clarence House arranged alternative transport with no problems.
Thanks you to the staff at Clarence House.
Clarence house is a lovely place to stay before and after Safari. The accom is nice and clean, buffet and a la carte food is served in the restaurant. Clarence House also has a pool and a comfortable cocktail bar.
Make sure you keep up your fluids with blizzardly cold Tusker Lager. Served in a 500ml bottle for $2-5 USD depending where you are.
Enjoy. Jambo Jambo! Asanti!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Definitely unexpected trip
It was a good unplanned safari and Smile with us travel and tours made it more special. They are very accomodating and manage to book my safari even in a short notice of time. I got the itinerary that i wanted with so much reasonable price, plus my safari tour guide Matata was so patient to drive the whole day to maximize my safari experience and didnt stop seaching for lions and we succeed
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful experience and hospitality close to heart
I had a private Walvis bay duen 7 tour from swakopmund , It was an solo trip for me . guide FESTUS was an wonderful person with whom I feel like roaming around with very own people . they took me every corner as possible and the experience was too good . Good luck .
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Fantastic Vacation
We booked a 5 day Northern Circuit Camping Safari, a 4 day Zanzibar trip, and a day hike of Kilimanjaro. Afrishare did a great job organizing our trips and picked us up from the airport upon our arrival. We had a great time camping out on our safari, especially in the Serengeti. When we arrived at our camp site, there were Zebra drinking from a watering hole nearby as well as Giraffes in the distance. The food was great and the chef was very attentive to what we liked to eat. We saw pretty much every animal except for the elusive Rhino so I guess we will just have to come back again. Our Zanzibar trip was a great way to finish our vacation. We stayed at the beautiful Tembo Hotel in Stonetown and at the Kendwa Rocks beach resort. In Stonetown we took a historical tour of the city and went to Prison Island for snorkling and to check out the giant tortoise sanctuary. Overall, we were thrilled with our whole experience with Afrishare and hope to be able to come back sometime in the future.
BR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
7-Day Magical Encounter of the Big Five Safari
My experience with World Air Travel is being great from the beginning until now!
This was my first time at Tanzania with my family and Elias was super helpful to prepare a made tailor itinerary for us. We made some changes in the basic itinerary and Elias was always prompt in his replies and always seeking to meet our expectations whether they were about the safari itself or the accomodations, etc.
We felt secure with him and he was always available by e-mail, whatsapp, cell phone, 24 hours per day, to provide details about our trip or to made changes in the itinerary or to clarify any doubt that we might have.
The support provided by Elias was outstanding compared with other travel agencies that we contacted to prepare the itinerary for us (and believe me, we contacted more than 10 agencies!).
We started our adventure on Aug 10th 2019 at the airport, where Focus, our driver (and now I can say our friend!) was waiting for us.
We spent the whole week with Focus and he was truly outstanding! He has a huge knowledge about Tanzania, about the safari, wild life and so on. He took us to the best viewing areas, he was VERY committed to provide us the best experience that we could have and he was always trying to find animals in the savanna and due to his commitment we were able to see all the animals that were in our must-see list (including the big 5!).
Furthermore, Focus was always attentive to our well being, being very punctual and very helpful in helping us with whatever we needed, even if it was beyond his scope of work.
He is a hard working man with a huge experience about safaris and he is very polite and friendly. He was the responsible for a great and unforggettable experience that we had!
I leave here a BIG THANK YOU to Elias and to Focus for assisting us and to provide to us an experience that I can say that was the trip of our lifetime!