PL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Balule Private Nature Reserve by Wojciech Koziołek
Amazing lion sightings (very cloes to the car!), we saw pride of lions a couple of times. Lots of rhinos (we saw 6 of them in one day!!), in general great safari destination,
PL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Kruger National Park by Wojciech Koziołek
Beautiful scenery, amazing bush vibe, lots of animals but unfortunately no predators at all during our 2- days visit. We only saw 2 out of 5 from the Big Five (elephants and buffalos). Birding was excellent- we saw lots of very interesting birds on every game drive.
CA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Errico
The Lake was overflooded because of heavy rain the previous days.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Communicative, honest, helpful, the best of the best!
We went on a 5 day Safari in late march, 2023
This is the “low season”, so we were able to book our trip 2 weeks ahead of time. We were a little worried about it being low season, expecting potentially less of an experience due to it not being the peak of the great migration, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth!
This was our itinerary:
Day 1: Tarangire day game drive and night game drive
Day 2: drive to Serengeti with stop at uldave gorge
Day 3: Serengeti day game drive
Day 4: ngorogoro crater game drive and walking Safari (hike around the crater rim)
Day 5: coffee tour and materuni waterfall hike
Our guide was Ben, a local from Arusha that has many years of experience doing safaris, and it shows! During every game drive, Ben was working hard to ensure we got the best experiences. He constantly communicated with other guides in the park to find all the good stuff and looked himself with his binoculars to find hidden gems. It wasn’t rare for Ben to use his eagle eyes to see a rhino or a simba out in the field! Because of this, we got to see “The Big 5”, including a leopard sleeping in a tree, about 6 rhinos, many lion prides, many Buffalo, and lots of elephants! It is hard to pick a favorite game drive experience, as they were all unique. After each game drive, we got to sit down at dinner and game plan for the next day. Since it was not peak season, the lodges were fairly empty and it gave us a great opportunity to get to know our guide better. It was great getting to learn more about the culture and lifestyle in Tanzania!
I will leave out the details of my game drives here as I think many others have expressed how amazing it is. Instead I’ll talk about a few unique parts of our experience.
The coffee experience in materuni waterfalls was a unique part of our trip that we requested. We were able to do this because we did a private Safari (just me and my wife) so our schedules were not dependent on others. The day started in the materuni area at a chagga village. The chagga people were very welcoming and accommodating, and they showed us everything from their coffee bean plants, adjacent fruit farms, how to remove the coffee bean shell, roasting the beans, grinding beans, making the coffee, and ultimately drinking it! Let me note that there are not any modern tools to help in this process, it is very traditional and requires a little bit of elbow grease! And the coffee was delicious, we bought 3 bags to take home and share with our family! After coffee, we went on a hike. The hike was not long, but it was steep. My wife and I enjoy hiking, and were definitely challenged a bit! But I think if you are able to do a few steep hills for a mile or two, you will be okay. The view once you get to the waterfalls makes it all worth it. After returning to the village, we ate lunch. It was by far my favorite lunch. Delicious banana soup with local spices, rice, beans, beef, and potatoes with banana “sauce”. The banana items do not taste like American banana, just delicious food I’ve never tasted before. If you love coffee, do not pass this experience up!
Overall, the pros were that the experiences were second to none. Day 1 was absolutely amazing and I didn’t think it could be beat, but day 2, 3, 4, and 5 offered equal or greater experiences.
Cons, it’s difficult to think of any cons! The lodges are absolutely amazing, but we had very little downtime and didn’t get to enjoy them that much. If you want to spend downtime at the lodges, I recommend not doing multiple things each day, or booking a longer safari so that your schedule isn’t as packed as ours was. We loved being on the go the entire time (and we didn’t have the time unfortunately to extend our safari a few more days), but we’re fairly young and I can imagine that our schedule may have been too busy for an older couple or travelers that expect more of a laid-back trip.
General notes. It was pretty easy to find electricity, either in the Safari vehicle or in our hotels. We needed to get a converter than changed the 250 V to 100 V (I think) that had a type G plug adapter. It worked fine but my iPhone lightning cable shocked me a few times and my iPhone got hot randomly, leading me to believe that there was too much amperage coming through. Because of this, I almost exclusively used the USB-A jacks which output lower amps. This was due to the crappy converter we bought from Amazon, so I recommend buying one that you can depend on because we were worried the entire trip that our converter would stop working at some point. In terms of other cameras, I bought a canon rebel the night before our trip with two lenses. I found myself learning the camera during the trip, and was very comfortable with it by mid day 1. I learned the hard way that pictures at night are hard if not impossible without the right equipment so if you plan on doing a night safari I would practice night pictures a bit before you go!Toilets were surprisingly very clean. Only place where I had to use squat toilets was in materuni, and the toilets in ngorogoro were maybe a little dirty but still way above my expectations. Our trip included pickup and drop off at the airport.
Overall, I would recommend a Safari with colors of Africa to anyone and everyone! Ben was the absolute best and went above and beyond to make our trip a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Support your local Safari guides!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Well organized safari at a reasonable price,good communication, helpful information and good guidanc
Was very enjoyed safari having a lot of adventures, good communication,service at point and good guidance
NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Personal touch in the whole sequence of booking and traveling.
Nice company that understands the meaning of personal touch. They’ve gon out of their way to make everything as special as possible
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing Safari experience
Niran strümper
Extraordinary unique experience, i have been on a Safari journeys last year it was such wonderful time.
Steven is a very good and professional guide with a lot of experience and knowledge of wild life.
I recommend this Safari to everyone
NG
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great experience that I definitely recommend. Everything on point
The guide and the driver know exactly where to take you for the best view of the park and animals. They are very experienced and bring you all the necessary information to educate you and guide you through the whole safari. Can’t wait to come back!
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Our trip toUganda was really great. A great thanks to Shafik who was our guide.
Good vehicles and good workers. I recommend everyone to use this Tour company.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Absolutely Fantastic Wonderful time we had from these guys
Booked from UK Very - They are very easy to communicate with
How lucky where we to find Terrain Tanzania Safaris
George the owner organized everything Door to Door from hotel in Zanzibar
Pick up from Hotel then flights and luxury Lodge for 2 nights All inclusive of food
We were meet at airport by Juma Mfaume for our 3 day Safari
He was Knowledgeable so accommodating and lovely he took us to 3 different parks making sure we saw all the animals
Cant recommend this company highly enough