AE
under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The experience was great my husbands and I enjoyed how we treated by the tour guide
The whole of the team they are professionals we were treated very well and I would recommend safari tours anytime.
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Dolphins and turtles combo day trip for a family 2 adults and 2 children
I want to thank you for organizing this day. Unfortunately we did not see any dolphins but this is the game. The Zodiac ride is worth the trouble and swimming with mask and snorkel too. What I will remember is the meeting with these little turtles that had just been born, to go take their first bath. Ian is a great Guide!!! We had an unforgettable day with him. He is also a very good driver.
Thank you for this beautiful day. I will advise your trip to all my friends. And if I come back one day, which I hope, I will remind you.
EE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good experience, but there is still room for improvement
What we liked the most is that everything that we booked was on time and James was able to adjust the booking according to our wishes.
We visited AA Lodge in Amboselli and Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge in Tsavo West. We would definitely recommend Amboselli for game drives with the view on mt. Kilimanjaro and Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge for unique experience, where wild animals (elephants, baboons, zebras, buffalos etc.) are walking under your room to get some fresh water.
We expected the driver to be more communicative/sociable, as it is was our first visit to Africa.
We wanted to know as much as possible about wildlife or Kenya in general, but the driver was rather quiet. If you are looking for a high-end safari with a proper guide, who can give you at least some information about animals, game drives, Kenya or Africa, I would recommend another company. Maybe it's just a matter of person and WildLife Sun Safaris has more experienced guides/drivers.
HR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Comfortable, educational and simply amazing
Just finished Safari (game drive) with Mansoor, and I loved it! Mansoor is an excellent driver and knows a lot about animals. Very patient and nice, we really learned a lot from him. Car was very comfortable and we enjoyed every moment with him. I definitely recommend it to everyone, you will not regret it!
HR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best safari experience
Visited Mikumi National Park with great guide Mansour. We were picked up at the Port of DarElSalam in the morning and safely get to a Mikumi in the afternoon. Mansour was very pleasant answering all questions we had (and we had a lot
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Very nice trip - Tsavo East / West - Amboseli
Very good organized Safari. All pick up's in time. Driver very friendly, careful and experienced. We have seen all the usual animals like lions, giraffs, Buffalos, elephants and a lot more (but I dont know the english names :-)
Wildlife Sun Safari was our joice because the Price was much lower then from european agents or the hotel offers. Okay, the car was not realy new and our first lodge was..hm… one night, okay. A lower Price Contents compromises. On the other side: it's better if a local Agent Profits.
This may not Sound very enthusiastic but realy: we enjoyed the Safari and we will contact Wildlife Sun Safari next time again !!!
HR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great nature, Great guide, lot of beatufiul animals, experience for life.
Everything was great. The stuff is very kind. Safari is above the expectations, lot of animals.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Trustfull company and people
Everything was working fine with Gladiola but especially with the owner Didas.
We rent a toyota Landcruiser on self drive to get into Serengeti for 4 days.We took contact with Didas, got a fast answer, payment was made as fast.
Arriving in Arusha i wanted to see the owner, Didas was very friendly, no problem appear, the car was then a few day later brought to Karatu, return was also in Karatu, the driver was punctual, paid me the 300 USD Bond back on return day.
I would recommend Gladiola without hesitation.
Thank you Didas
Jean
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Moorland safaris
Moorland Safari has provided fantastic service. Our expectations have been exceeded in every way. The best part has been getting to know our driver and guide Derick. When the airlines lost our luggage, both Nasr and Derick went way out of the way to get our bags to us. Their knowledge of the area, the wildlife, the people...any subject is unbelievable and makes our time even better. Thank you!!!
Moorland Safaris
UA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Unforgettable Uganda!
After more than one year of preparation and organisation of this unique trip with Cheetah Safari Uganda and my friend Robert Ntale we started on New Year´s Day 2019 from Vienna to Dubai and arrived on January 2nd in Entebbe which we decided to be our first overnight base in Uganda. John Mwesigwa was our personal guide and driver for these remarkable days through Uganda and to Kigali, where we took my wife to the airport after the first week of travelling. Thanks to the organizers we could plan our very special trip individually. It was our first holyday without our 4 year old son, who stayed with his grandparents in Vienna meanwhile. And we got a WIFI-router in the car to stay connected the whole trip with our family in Vienna. Big thanks to John! He was a great help for us from early morning till late evening and he never seemed to be tired.
Facing a tight schedule of game drives and cultural program we started the same day with visiting a dancing performance at the Ndere Centre for Development Theatre, which was constructed by a grant from the Austrian Development Agency. We experienced an amazing evening at the open air performance with dancers and music of different parts of the country, which was a warm welcome and pleasant introduction into culture, people and country.
The next six days passed in a flash. Places like Bigodi village, Kibale Forest, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kisoro and Mgahinga National Park where our destinations in this first week. - A lot of highlights in this short time. A challenge for photographers, but fortunately with enough batteries and suitable adapters packed. John stopped our car, wherever I asked him to, to take some pictures or to buy some souvenirs our fruits. On the first day traffic seemed to be a little bit dangerous because of a lot of bodabodas and local manners of driving, but the roads where in excellent condition most of our driving route.
Bigodi village is situated in the highlands of western Uganda, in the shadow of the Rwenzori Mountains, the famous “Mountains of the Moon”. This community is located about 40 kilometres outside of of Fort Portal, that we passed coming from the East and at the borders of Kibale National Park. In Bigodi we learned how handcrafts and baskets are made, coffee is roasted, Matoke – a typical local food - is prepared and Gin is made out of bananas.
Winston Churchill was absolutely right: “For magnificence, for variety of form and colour, for profusion of brilliant life — bird, insect, reptile, beast — for vast scale — Uganda is truly “the Pearl of Africa.” Yes, it is a pearl! From morning till evening we could we were astonished about flora and fauna of this beautiful and picturesque country. The beauty of flowers, trees, birds, even the geckos I met in one of my lodges were fascinating. Absolutely highlights were our booked tours of Chimpanzee-tracking in Kibale Forest and Gorilla-tracking Mgahinga National Park. In Kibale Forest it was our guide Jeniffer Nsabe who took us successfully after a two hours walk to a big family of chimps guzzling and munching on high fig tree in the forest. We took amazing pictures, also when they climbed down with their babies.
In Mgahinga National Park we started early morning to get up to base for Gorilla-tracking, what seemed to be a little bit exhausting for me. I asked a porter for help with my photo-equipment and water bottles, not knowing that even after another hour of walking through the bush we should meet a Gorilla family with three silverbacks and a couple of juveniles sunbathing on glade. We took fantastic photographs with a picturesque background of Virunga Mountains. Pictures we won´t forget our whole life! And as the oldest guy in our group I got a certificate as the “Sliverback of the Day”!
The boat cruise on Kazinga Channel will be also unforgettable for us. I never saw such a huge amount of different birds and animals so close on one place. Only at home, when I checked all my photographs of water birds, I recognized some Nile monitors in the background of my pictures. Different Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters, Cranes, Crowned Plovers, Common Sandpipers, Grey Herons, Great Cormorants and hundreds and hundreds of birds. And of course hippos, elephants, buffalos, crocodiles and antelopes came down to or into the water of Kazinga Channel.
After a one day break in Kigali in Rwanda, visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial and taking my wife to the airport, we continued our trip in Uganda at Buynonyi Lake, visiting the pygmies-village, a school and a medicine man. Most impressive were two things to me: firstly the view down onto the lake from my Acadia-Lodge. It was so fascinating that I did not want to leave my lodge for breakfast. I cannot remember happening that before. Secondly the people on the islands we met. I took a lot of great portraits especially of children playing. People were so kind and beautiful everywhere we came.
On the road we took a lot of great pictures. We crossed twice the Equator, we stopped at some colourful markets, coffee and tea plantations, a drum maker and souvenir shops, were we could buy tasty Ugandan coffee and some beautiful handcrafts and textiles for friends at home.
Another three highlights of the second part of the trip were the Lake Mburo National Park, the Rhino-tracking in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and my stay at the Nile River and the trip to the Murchison Falls and through the Murchison National Park. Also a huge number of animals and the first time I saw a lioness chasing an antelope and catching its prey. Kampala, the capital itself was a one-day-stop including a visit of the huge Gaddafi-National-Mosque, which was donated by Muamar al Gaddafi and opened in year 2007 officially.
Last but not least I want to recommend two sights in Entebbe which I visited on my last day of my stay: The Botanical Garden and the Wild Life Education Centre. - Both worth seeing and not far from the airport.
Retrospectively time in Uganda was too short for me and I have to come again soon. Of course highlights will be different: Golden Monkey tracking and the lions climbing up the trees will be a must for next time. And I will focus on the big variety of birds, which was really fascinating. To do the Ruwenzori Volcanoes would be great, but depends on my physical condition. And I would like to spend more time among people of Uganda. They were hospitable, friendly and beautiful!
Big thanks to Cheetah Safaris Uganda, Robert Ntale and his wife Jaquiline Mutesi, to John Mwesigwa and all our guides and rangers who made this trip possible for us!
Andreas and Hilla
