NL
Very professional and personalised service for a safari trip
From the moment we contacted Pembury tour, we were impressed by its professional and high quality service. Our contact person, Tammy, always responded promptly to our specific needs and desires for our safari trip. She was flexible and accommodating throughout the planning phase of the trip, and recommended various options for the choice of the game reserves and lodges. She even managed to insert a tour of the Panorama Route during the transfer from the 1st game reserve to the 2nd at our request, which turned out to be a wonderful break in-between the two safari activities. The entire trip went seamlessly, with all of the three tranfers (including Panorama Route) and two accommodations organized perfectly without any glitch. We were grateful for their attentions to details and reliable service, and for the memorable safari experience.
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A half-day to spot four of the big fives!
We had a great day with David, who allowed us to see four of the big fives in Nairobi National Park in just a half day. This park surprised us in a very good way, as we saw a lot of different animals, including rhinos, leopards, lions, giraffes, impalas, hartebeest, crocodiles and so on. We would definitely recommend Kenya Tours for a safari in the park!
EE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful Uganda trip
We made a 13-day trip around Uganda. Tour was organized by Mushra Travel with very reasonable price. Organization of the trip was very good. Accommodations were even better, than we expected. Especially we want to emphasize our guide Martin´ s professionalizm and friendliness.
Our transport (4*4 minivan) was always in order and clean. It was wonderful trip. We highly recommend using Mushra Travel.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing!
We came from Dubai and had 5 days only, discussions started with Holiday Dealers 2 weeks before, so many changes, so many questions from our side and they were so patient with us. They gave us many options and the accommodation were just great. Even when they said low budget Ibis, I was expecting a very poor hotel, however Ibis hotel was new and beyond expectations!
The tour guide and drivers were really nice, we had asked them so many things we wanted to buy, they were always happy to stop and come with us.
An excellent start
A good start to our tour of Tanzania with nice accommodation, excellent birding and some lovely scenery
Close to being the finest National Park in Africa
I've already been to South Luangwa National park 3 times and will be going again next year. This is simply an outstanding place in every way, shape and form. It has an outstanding bush vibe as well as exceptional guiding. The night drives and walking are unbeatable.
The wildlife is just superb. I saw so many elephants, hippos, lions, leopards and antelope. The birdlife was just superb.
One of my favorite safari locations
I stayed at Chada Katavi for seven nights in August of last year. I have to say that Katavi offers one of the highest levels of bush vibe in Africa.
The wildlife viewing was simply outstanding. I've never seen bigger pods of hippos nor more crocodiles as well as massive herds of buffalo and topi. There were lots of elephants and they often came into camp. I saw lions and leopards.
I went fly camping for two nights and on one night drive. Fly camping was particularly enjoyable. My night drive was simply awesome. One can go for hours without seeing another person.
TW
Life,and is rich in water in a wild subway fare from a good place
Murchison Falls National Park.
And you ship out. Victoria enjoying murchison falls and evening time the ecological environment.The park has grasslands, marshes, rivers, such as a variety of terrain, with the wildlife in the hippopotamus, giraffe and crocodile is the most famous.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awful tour for affordable price level.
We can truly say, we had a great tour with many highlights, especially in Maasai Mara, where we got in close contact to the big five. Before starting the tour we had no big expectations, but after the tour all our expectations have been fulfilled. The accommodations were okay as well as the food, which was served. We had a perfect guide (Arony). He was a very good and safe driver and took care about us all the time. We can recommend Karibu Safaris in Kenya to all, who would like a budget and no luxory safari.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
This company stole our deposit, made zero bookings, and now will not respond to emails
We have been scammed by this company (It Started in Africa) and cheated out of USD 3,300.
We have been thinking about an African safari for a long time. In July 2017 we started looking into safari companies and selected It Started in Africa based on excellent previous reviews. We contacted then, they sent us an itinerary. After several exchange of emails, we decided to go ahead with them, and wired them a deposit of about USD 3,300.
After this, things started going south. They did not initially send us any confirmations of any bookings at the lodges which we had requested. After many emails, they sent us pictures of lodge invoices, which all showed that the amounts were still payable to the lodges. We contacted each individual lodge, and each one said that they did not have any bookings with this safari company. They had previous bookings, which got cancelled as this company did not send them the advance payment out of the deposit that we had paid.
We also read about several other reviews that indicated that this company had scammed many others out of their money recently, and they had gone bankrupt.
Now we are in a state of panic as we seem to have lost our money, and we do not have any safari reservations at any lodge. Our emails to them are now going un-answered.
If any one has been able to get their money back, please post on this review board on how they went about it.