35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Outstanding Safaris
I fell in love with Africa as a teenager. Fifty years later I took my first trip which was managed beautifully by Lappet Faced Safaris. Francisco, CEO, was exceptionally responsive to our requests. We told him what we wanted to see, gave him a budget, and he designed the perfect trip. He was very responsive to questions, and happy to do any tweaking we needed to do in order to fit our schedule.
He provided us with the perfect guide. I am not overstating. Our guide Michael was extremely skilled, very knowledgeable, and lots of fun! After we all loosened up, we laughed our way across Tanzania.
We tried to stay in tented camps for the most part, which was a good choice for us. If you want to hear animals at night, and enhance your experience, this is the way to go. I never once felt unsafe.
We are traveling with Lappet Faced Safaris again in August 2021, going back to see more of Tanzania. In 2022 Lappet Faced Safaris will take us to Kenya.
I would let Lappet Faced Safaris take me anywhere!
SE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Bucket List Adventure done
“My wife booked a trip to Kenya through Keron Safaris for the two of us plus my 26 yr old son. The trip could not have been better, we started off with a two night stay at the beach in Mombasa (Diani Sea Lodge) and had a great time winding down after two days of flying. Then we went to Tsavo East for a day and a half, amazing! From there we went to Amboseli for another day or so, also fantastic. Next was a half day at Nakuru, by this time we had seen so many animals, at Nakuru we added whit Rhinos to our list. We finished up at Masai Mara for our last day and a half.
So much fun and great camaraderie with our guide Venant, I would recommend Venant to be your guide too. He is extremely personable and accommodating, not to mention he is a great driver. You'll need a great driver, as the roads and drivers in Kenya are terrible! Many thanks to both Kenny and Venant for ensuring we all had an amazing safari!!”
FR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
professionnal organizer listening what you would like to get!
Second time with Flash. But this time I brought my familly and we were 7 to come.
What an amazing tour!
we saw again the 5 bigs and many others with extraordinary time. Our 2 guides have an eagle view and they can see what you cannot see.
The selection of the lodges and hotels were perfect and always super place with confort and excellent service . a good balance between the confort and the respect of the nature and the local people.
I will highly recommend FLASH. But the key is to tell them what you like and do not like and if you do not know please listen to them. They will select a good trip for you. (as they did for us)
At last thank you again to the Flash Team who made my best hollidays of my life!
HU
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful Experience
It was a perfect 3-days safari tour with friends organized by Mazingira, which became one of the most amazing experience in our life.
Our guide Elisante picked us up at the hotel the next morning. We were so glad to have Eli as our guide. He is a true professional, knowledgeable, answering all our questions and very patient. Eli took care of everything we felt really comfortable and safe with him. The game drives were amazing with many many animals :)
Our Mazingira vehicle was a “pop-up roof” Toyota Land Cruiser, which was in a very good condition, well maintained, with built-in refrigerator.
Our accommodation and the food was perfect, everything according to our expectations.
Mazingira is an amazing company to book with and I highly recommend it!! 10/10
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Reliable responsive company with great expertise, strong guides, per standards, competitively priced
We booked a luxury 6 day safari (first safari experience) in Tanzania for 2 persons, with Fur Tours & Trek, covering 4 parks Terengire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara.
Stayed over full board in 3 different Serena Lodges, well located in the parks.
Paid 100% upfront. Alternative is 25% downpayment, 75% in full in USD upon arrival. (Bank transfers do come with 3.5% bank commission.)
Very responsive upfront communications with owner Noel Mann, via WhatsApp to clarify offering and our wishes/requests.
Route and choice of lodges was optimized to minimize travel and fully benefit from the parks, with first park visited upon day of arrival (flight arrived 7 am) and last park visited on day of departure (flight departed 11pm).
Private safari jeep with same driver drove us through the different parks.
Jeep was a typical reliable reference customized Toyota Land Cruiser, with extendable roof, like 95% of the jeeps used by the other safari operators.
Great guide (Ashley):
-Great driver – The roads get often rough, steep, narrow, winding in the parks. It’s critical to feel safe and get safely to your destination
-Fluent in English and spontaneous, conversational guide - You spent full days together. It’s important to feel at ease and communicate freely
-Knowledgeable: performed studies in fauna & flora – Shared great insights and learnings on all animals and plants we crossed. Very educational.
-Sharp eye, well connected: Optimized the game hunt in function of tips captured on the internal radio. Knew were to find and spot animals. Saw animals we would otherwise just have driven by.
We saw all we were hoping to see and far more. Every day was spectacular.
-Dynamic and motivated: Passionate about his country and offering his guests the best experience possible. Offered early morning drives, with the awaking Serengeti at sun-rise. Learned us a ton about Tanzania and its inhabitants.
-Expertise & well connected: Previous park ranger experience. Knows the parks and the people inside-out. Managed to get us quickly and smoothly through the park entrances.
Value for money: This local company operates only with locals, is very responsive and dynamic.
There’s no middle-man commissions and heavy structure to finance, and they get good local deals with the lodges.
They’re hence able to offer very competitive pricing, sometimes more than 20% cheaper than other comparable offerings.
It was a true pleasure to travel with Fur Tours & Trek, and guide Ashley.
We’d warmly recommend them.
PL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Highly recommended
Meru Slopes Safari Tours reached my expectations in terms of organization, quality of service and customers needs. All the staff was doing their best, the good was great too.
I highly recommended choosing the tour operator for your safari experience.
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Came as a guest, left as a friend
Back from my first visit in Uganda, I would like to share my experience of my 8 day safari tour as a female solo traveller.
Travel consultant Catherine organized the tour according to my preferences and made sure everything runs smoothly. Any question or doubts I had were addressed promptly. My tour guide Ibaada was very polite and a responsible driver. He was there for airport pick-up and took care of the paperwork during the trip. He is calm and communicates fluently in English. I felt safe and comfortable in his company.
The Ganyana team put effort to ensure a positive experience and they were very responsive also during the trip on whatsapp. Especially in current times of pandemic, I was grateful to have chosen a reliable tour operator. Thank you Ganyana Safaris team!
FR
Wonderful
Unforgettable safari ! Richard was the perfect guide and we saw everything we wanted to see :)
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Familiar atmosphere and cosyness
The Safari was amazing and well organised. The company provided everything and even if we did just one night we had the opportunity to appreciate the experience and to see a lot of animals and very good landscapes.
Lion's gate hostel where we stayed the night before the Safari was able to create a cosy and comfortable atmosphere, in a place that feels more like a home than a hostel. Special mention goes to the hostel's chef, who prepared for us the best pilau rice in the world and helped us to get bus tickets to go back to Dar es salaam. You will not forget the dinners next to the fire and the smiles of the people around!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
They are swift in response and offer exceptional customer service.
Our safari to Amboseli was very enjoyable and successful thanks to the awesome service by Noel. He was always in contact with us during the planning process and also when effecting last minute changes. Alex the driver was very lively and knowledgeable enabling us to spot many wild animals. The overall experience was great and would highly recommend them whenever planning your safari.