DE
Good and bad experiences during the trip but I will never forget it for sure
AfroLeisureTours made it possible for us to book our 3-days-safari-trip very spontaneously. That was pretty awesome. My boy-friend and me had a full safari van for ourselves with plenty of room.
The agency told us that we would arrive in our first camp in the late afternoon and start with our first game-drive afterwards. But our driver got lost or the calculation was wrong, am not pretty sure what was the problem but we arrived there at 11 p.m. when it was totally dark outside. So we missed our first game-drive and were pretty disappointed.
Thats why they upgraded us to a very nice and fancy Spa Resort to say sorry, which was pretty awesome again. But then the schedule didn't work out again because we had a driver change between the second and third (the last) day and the new driver arrived 1 1/2 hours too late in the morning for the game-drive. The game drive was very nice but because of lack of lunch packages we had to shorten our game-drive (everyone was too hungry to continue) but at least they paid a dinner in a small restaurant afterwards. All in all a lot went wrong but at least they tried to softened with extras like the resort on the second day.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wildlife right next to Nairobi
This was my second trip to Kenya and I really wanted to see NNP. When we first entered the park we saw our first white rhinos of the trip and some giraffes with the city of Nairobi in the background. That was pretty surreal. We did not see a ton of wildlife but when we did see the animals, it was great. We saw lions, eland, zebras, gazelle, hartebeest, ostrich, quite a few birds and other wildlife and even a green mamba snake. It was really cool to see all the whistling acacia trees. All in all it was a nice park right outside the city so very convenient. The weather was mostly cool and overcast. I'm glad I made it to NNP.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by Michael Potts
Lots of invasive plants makes view difficult
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Addo Elephant National Park by Michael Potts
Lots of elephants and unusual dung beatles
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by ianh3000
Only had an afternoon here - so difficult to review as didn't travel that far within the park.
A bit lacking in atmosphere.
Staying in one of the larger lodges with lots of other people around & driving on tarmac roads a fair amount of the time with a number of private vehicles on the roads then I did think the actual safari experience was a bit lacking. (Private concessions & smaller lodges would be completely different). You do get close to the animals - closer than in a lot of places as they are used to the vehicles so it really depends what you go for. Having only spent a couple of days in one area then again it would make sense to go to different areas for slightly different experiences (although obviously if you drive down the same road an hour later you might see different things). Guides & vehicles are good. Weather wasn't particularly good when I was there - so this probably tempers the review !
Review about South Africa by ianh3000
You probably don't get the wilderness experience you would get elsewhere - unless you go for the smaller lodges & private concessions.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Good experience after initial mishap
Day 3 and day 4: We had a good experience at the Mara, our driver Peter Kimani is knowledgeable and made sure we saw everything there was to see.
We received and accepted an apology and awesome complimentary dinner at the Carnivore restaurant, from our booking agent.
My husband and I in the end, are pleased with our overall experience and will consider using Palbina for future travel.
Thanks.
Lucy.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3 day masai mara
Safari was good but had unexpected and unexplained cost of visit to Masai village. Our guide was knowledgeable but a bit disinterested. Note that vehicle was not 4wd, and got bogged on rough roads in as was during the wet season.
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by piazzi1969
This was the final park visited. Overall very similar to the other destinations mentioned above and below, but staff in the park seemed less friendly.
Less animals and birds seen here and during one of the drives our car was packed with 10 people although other cars were almost empty. The weather was dry.
We stayed at the Rhino Ridge Safari Lodge. Very nice rooms, good food, less friendly staff although our guide was very friendly and knowledgable, and overall less wildlife sums up the two nights w stayed here.