Design your own safari
The ability to negotiate accommodation type & level and means of travel allowed us to choose to suit our budget and time schedule. We chose to have a personal vehicle which allowed us to choose how we spent our time. Eustace, our driver, was a very safe driver, personable, and interested in making our experience wonderful. We would recommend this company highly.
NG
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Private tour of Prison Island
The services and communication were excellent and the tour guide was extremely knowledgeable. the prison island tour was fun and i would definitely recommend it.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Everything we dreamed of came true
When planning your first safari, you tend to set your personal expectations high! Wanting to see the big five, experiance amazing sights etc. Really, you shouldn't do that, as you are dealing with nature and that has a tendency to be conservative and immidiate to its own needs and not ours.
Our agent Clive, explained with clarity, all that we needed and more and showed great professionalism and knowledge in getting our group exactly what we wanted. This guy is simply incredible at what he does. I cannot recommend him highly enough. Clive managed our expectations and if anything under promised and certainly over delevered.
However, I can honestly say, that with this trip, all our expectations were exceeded. The lodges were incredible and as for the brilliance of the Guides and scouts, they made this safari the trip of a lifetime.
CA
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Safari Honeymoon Dream: Jan 22-Feb 5, 2016
As we set out to plan our safari honeymoon, we realized quickly that it would be a daunting task. With so many tour operators, here and abroad, small and large, how do you know who is trustworthy and who will go that extra mile to ensure your trip is positively unforgettable?
After a lot of research, we were about to settle on a different safari operator, however I came across Safari Infinity and thought I'd send them a quick email before settling on a tour company. The overnight response was enough to start second guessing ourselves, and the more we corresponded with Augustine, the more we knew that Safari Infinity was the right company to take us on our honeymoon. Our trip was 8 days on Safari and just under a week in Zanzibar.
During the initial correspondence, Augustine was everything you could wish for with helping us pick out the best possible itinerary for our honeymoon vacation. He was always thoughtful and quick to reply to our questions - it honestly felt like a friend (who understood our travel objectives and budget constraints) was helping us plan our trip for us! He was even flexible with the form of payment because we had hesitations with using a wire transfer and allowed us to use email transfers instead. We felt much more comfortable dealing with Augustine and Safari Infinity because they were based out of Vancouver. He helped us make the most of our budget and plan our route, providing us with all the details about our options and giving his recommendation on what would be the best use of our time.
Our safari guide was Tumaini. He was kind, knowledgeable, friendly, and went those extra miles to tailor our plans for us. Towards the end of the safari, we mentioned that we wanted to go on a walking safari. He reshuffled our itinerary and began asking around. Despite the rain, Tumaini held out hopes for our revised plans and made it happen! In the end, we had a beautiful hike up a mountainside with a park ranger and were greeted by an amazing panaroma view of the land below.
Tumaini had such a good read on the animals (not to mention us)! For wildlife, he could tell when the lions and leopards looked to be on the move. For us, he knew when we were trying to snap photos and would slow down and stop at a spot that would give us the right lighting. He knew when we'd want to rest and was up for anything we were up for. He was just one of those people you wanted to be around. He was positive, always smiling, and best of all he still got excited about seeing the animals.
We visited Tarangire, Ndutu, Serengeti, and Ngorongoro during the safari portion staying in Tarangire Safari Lodge, Ngorongoro Farmhouse, Pioneer Camp, Chaka Camp, Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge, and African Tulip. All accommodations were wonderful with the exception of Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge which was a little lacklustre.
But overall, the trip was a dream. Everything was taken care of for us - all we had to do was sit back and smile. It truly felt like Safari Infinity had our best interests at heart, checking in with us at the right times and injecting personal touches along the way to make the trip oh-so-special! Asante Sana Tumaini, Augustine, and the rest of the Safari Infinity team.
US
Dreamy Escape into the bush
We participated in a three day safari at Selous, organized by Kanuth Adventure Safaris. Kanuth Staff picked up us from our hotel, they were kind, helpful, appreciative of our business and fair priced. The drive from the city to the park was beautiful and exciting, an adventure in itself. We stayed at Hippo Camp, which was a lovely camp, just outside the park gates. We stayed in a lovely tree house right on the rufiji river, it was much like "glamping". The park was extraordinary. It was remote and beautiful. It was rainy while we were there, but honestly the experience was so dreamy, it wasn't too upsetting. We chose Selous over the Northern circuit because we were looking for something a bit off the beaten track. We wanted to immerse ourselves in vastness of the land, away from "tourists". We knew there was a risk in doing so, as we heard the wildlife sightings were less of a guarantee at Selous. But we were very lucky. Our guide was wonderful. We spent all day driving around the park, seeing everything we could have hoped to see. The only other humans we saw were the two other jeeps we entered the park with, from our camp. It was truly lovely. I highly recommend this park. One thing I might say when booking a package-- we were sold a boat safari, jeep safari and "walking safari". The walking safari, was a bush walk that took place outside of the park. While it was lovely, we felt mislead. There were some travelers who received an actual walking safari inside the park. Just be sure to receive clarification on this. Other than that piece everything was a dream. Cheers.
IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Tarangire National Park by Hari L Ratan
Excellent place for elephants and ungulates, the great Baobob trees which are common here provide a great experience. Stunning in fact.
IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Serengeti National Park by Hari L Ratan
Wildlife like nowhere else, and the long drives in the grassland provide unparalleled experience.
IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Easy wildlife spotting and in quick succession
We left our hotel rather early in the morning to enter the crater hoping to leave behind the crowd. A large number of sightings and in quick succession are possible as the crater or in fact the Ngorongoro Caldera holds a variety of mammals and birds. All mammals are contained within the crater and most of them live here till they die, without easy access to the outside world.
Within a few minutes of entering the Crater we were rewarded with a sighting of a Serval cat, which according to our driver is not rare but difficult to spot. Then started a series of spottings, rhinos, elephants, gazelles, hyenas, lions, kori bustards, wildebeests, ape buffalos and many birds.
If in a short while one wants a taste of African wildlife then one must visit the Ngorongoro crater.
Go there early in the morning and take in the wonderful landscape in the early morning sun. The landscape changes with every minutes with the sun changing the quality of light swiftly.
In a couple of hours and after more than 20 minutes with the black rhinos we decided to drive over to Ngoitokitok Springs for our breakfast, Ngoitokitok means a bubbly spring and this is a great spot to spend some time watching the Hippos grunting, coming close to the shore and staying away at a respectful distance. Weaver and other birds coming over to share your food, the ducks making noise all add to the wonder of this place. A drive to Lake Magadi to watch the flamingos though from a distance and at the same time watch the numerous mammals that graze there will make one believe that this a Garden of Eden.
The walls of the crater offer a great background for photographing the animals here in the open crater and this along with the quality of light make it a photographers delight.
No visit to Tanzania can be complete without a visit to Ngorongoro crater.
IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Tanzania by Hari L Ratan
Great wildlife, hospitality, kind people make it a great destination.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Mt Kilimanjaro Climb
Afrishare organised a 6-day climb to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro for a group of three friends. From the very first email enquiry, we were re-assured by their timely communication, helpful advice for packing, recommendations on the best route to take based on our skill levels.
Once on the ground, we were provided with a detailed audit of our trekking gear with advice and guidance from our two guides on how to approach the mountain (pole pole as they say in Swahili). We met the guides and a couple of the porters a couple of days before-hand and this helped to no end.
The trip itself was very well organised. The support provided on the trek itself was superb. The guides were extremely knowledgeable and skilled - providing advice, tips, identified birds, animals and plants along the way and shared stories of the history of the mountain and the surrounding countryside.
A lot of the porters spoke English and even those that didn't were happy to have a friendly chat.
The food was delicious and freshly made with our very own mess tent set up in advance at every camp site. Appetisers consisted of popcorn and ginger snaps which was *delightfully* welcome at more than 3000m above sea level. We were very well fed throughout with hearty soups, fresh food (fried chicken, toasties, fish fillets, rice, spaghetti) made all the more impressive because all the food had to be lugged up the mountain.
Ibrahim, Kija, Goodluck and the rest of the crew were a great set of people to travel with and we'd do this again in future.