DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent service, amazing safari
We would like to highly recommend Naomi and her Team. She has made all our wishes come true and she has reacted perferctly to all our changes which we made at short notice. She gave us the best price-performance offer compared to approx. 20 other companies. Communication and realization were very smooth. We would also like to thank especially our driver, Francis. He does his job with heart and sould and has given us a lot of unforgottable moments during our Safari. Thank you very much. Tanja and Drago
AE
under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Sucessive trip to east africa - kenya
We had booked a 6 days and 5 nights package to Kenya through mara triangle safaris covering amboselli, naivashu and masai mara.Though it was a short time we pretty much covered the important places of Kenya. We thought that in Africa we would come across some obstacles like language and food but lucy and our driver kristopher were cordial enough to help us out in our difficulties. It was an enjoyable trip of course as well as a valuable and educative trip, knowing the cultures and traditions of the masais was real fun. Overall I enjoyed the trip, Lucy was in touch with us throughout the trip and made sure we were comfortable and so was kristopher.
I will surely recommend this company to anyone traveling to Kenya as they are really committed and value for money.
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very reliable and high level of customer service
The tour itself was very well arranged. The team of guides/porters is very experienced and carry a high level of customer service. (To be honest: This surprised me a lot!) The over-all communication was fast and questions where clearly answered. I would recommend Kilimanjaro Bound to people who prefer to deal with, and support, a local company with a team of mountain enthusiasts.
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Fantastic self drive holiday in Namibia and Botswana!
We had previously used this company for a self drive holiday in Namibia and knew just how good our latest trip would be. We were not disappointed, as expected the accommodation was fantastic, the scenery breath taking and the people unbelievably friendly. For anyone planning a trip in any of the countries covered by this company, we would suggest you stop looking for alternatives and use them! We had some issues with one of the lodges and on our return these were dealt with comprehensively and to more than our full satisfaction. That said even these issues could not detract from the holiday of a lifetime. Thank you all so much!
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
100% perfect
We 100% recomend Encounter as they are very professional, reactive to all our emails and provided us with the service that we booked without any bad surprises. All went perfect. Special thanks to our driver Simon. He is a save driver and also great trip companion with very entertaining conversations about Uganda and any other theams. Thanks!!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent guide and service made our safari memorable
We could not have asked for a better safari guide than Armand from Wild Wings. He was attentive, good humoured and engaged at all times, as well as being knowledgeable about the animals, birds, plants and everything else we asked about. Armand is clearly passionate about his work, and committed to pleasing his clients. When some of our fellow tourists, who had their hearts set on seeing a lion, missed a sighting due to a cancelled flight, he made every effort to find another, and was openly delighted when he succeeded. When it was just the two of us, he adapted to what we wanted, for example he was happy to stop longer to watch birds.
We also liked having a separate chef to cook for the group. The food was excellent - something which couldn't have been achieved by a safari guide who had just spent a full day on the road, as some safari companies require. It was great to have dishes with a South African flavour.
Setting everything up by e-mail is not always easy, but once we arrived in Africa we were very happy with how our tour was organised, both in Kruger and beyond. The accommodation was more than comfortable and matched what we expected. All the timings worked out, and the range of different safaris provided a good contrast. The bush walk organised by the national park was disappointing, because the rangers were not especially interested, but their night-time safari at Satara was excellent. The WW recommendation to visit the Chobe River in Botswana proved to be exactly right.
NL
20-35 years of age
Fabulous experience and memory for life
Fully prepared and full of expectations we, mother and son, arrived in Tanzania for our Kilimanjaro expedition and safari organized by African Wildcats. Both surpassed our expectations! The Kili expedition was of course tough but such a great experience. We were escorted by Saidi and his crew and they all did a fabulous job! So kind, caring, experienced, wise and sensible. Amazing food, thank you Paulo. We loved the singing of our crew, especially when they joined us, singing, in the last part of our way back to base camp at the end of summit day. African Wildcats decision not to start summit day at midnight is a really good one. It helps you climbing and enjoying this tough last climb and makes sure that you'll have the whole summit, under the sun in the snow, to yourself. No one else on the summit makes the feeling of invincibility even bigger.
After 6 days on the Kili, we had a few relaxing safari-days with our very experienced guide Ole. He guided us to the right spots. We saw many animals and often really close. The Sangaiwe tented lodge, where we stayed the first night, is exceptionally beautiful; almost a pity we only arrived there at the end of the afternoon.
Thank you African Wildcats, for this fabulous experience and memory for life.
We will highly recommend African Wildcats Expeditions to anyone planning on visiting Tanzania for the Kilimanjaro expedition and safari.
AT
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Well-planned 4-day safari through Tanzania's Tarangire, Serengeti, & Ngorongoro national parks.
Fantastic four-days safari through Tarangire, Serengeti, and Ngorongoro! Perfect, on time service. The accommodations were superb and my driver/guide, Sarima, knew exactly where the Big Five might be and were! I couldn't be more pleased and satisfied. Absolutely a five-star adventure! Look no further. Highly recommended!
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Too many changes in places and campsites.
I booked a 14 days safari and the day of the payment I was told that I may have to change to a different group but still I would do my plan. Changing groups became very inconvinient because when you change group on a daily basis tobody counts on you the day before to make decisions regarding wake up time or optional visits but I couldn´t complain about it. My complains during the trip came when they wanted to change my plan. At the office while I finished paying the 1950 dollars they told me that I would do that plan even if there was no group. That was a untruth, everytime they didn´t have a full van (9 people of which three wouldn´t have a window to see animals) they tried to put me in groups that didn´t go where I was supposed to be going. I complained strongly twice and stopped them from changing my plan but in three ocasions not even complaining I could stop it. They removed a game drive from my plan in Masai Mara, they didn´t give me chance to go to Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and there was a night in which they changed my campsite (coincidentally the camp changes were always towards ones of worse quality). All in all I enjoyed the trip because nature is impresive, I saw the big five and many beautiful nature scenes and the people that I met were amazing. If you are thinking about booking make sure they can fullfill their commitments, sometimes if they bring you to a different place, even if they promise you´ll do all the parks contracted it may be not worth it because they drove you too far away to go back.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A once in a lifetime experience, to tick off "No.1" on my bucketlist.
Experience Uganda was fantastic in all aspects of a Tour Company. Kevin rang me in Australia after my inquiry, relaying what I wanted to do in Uganda.
Trekking Silverback Gorillas in Bwindi Forest had been "No.1'' on my bucketlist for many decades.
He quicly put tgether a great Itinerary, that included staying at a Volcanic Lake resort, Trekking the Gorillas, organising accomadation at a beautiful guesthose close to Entebbe airport called Karibu, transported us to Jinja and back so we could experience Wildwaters Resort and rafting on the Victoria Nile. His staff were awseome and nothing was any trouble with Brett explaining our trek prior to departure with great advice.
I wish we had longer to explore Uganda, as I am sure Kevin and "Experience Uganda" could have planned more fantastic experiences.
Now back to my bucket list.......