NZ
Great guide, great tour
They were great to deal with through the booking process and even better on tour. Our guide innocent was exceptional and we loved our time in Rwanda. Highly recommend.
BE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
best safari experience in East Africa
no doubt the best safari experience in the region - personal experience, knowledgeable people, boutique traveling
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Asante to Innocent Mlaki - Migration & Kili Expedition Tours
I had such a fantastic safari with these guys and Innocent really made the whole experience for me. A very knowledgeable guy who was happy to answer the endless questions I bombarded him with.
I was so excited to see these animals in the wild and Innocent managed to spy things in the bushes that we could barely see even when he was pointing them out to us. Give this man a raise!
Great food, great organisation, and competitively priced
Asanteni sasa!
CH
under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect journey
Very friendly staff. I had a really good time and I would recommend Lion King Adventures
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime!
Just returned from safari with my friend Susan. What a
fantastic trip! I cannot thank you enough for your part in this trip.
Let me first tell you Simon Mayotte was such an amazing driver and
guide! He made our safari absolutely perfect. His knowledge about
everything was so informative and enjoyable. We saw and learned so
much about the animals and places we experienced. I am missing him
now.
The camps and lodge were beautiful. The Plantation Lodge was a treat
as was the Nimali Tarangire camp. The Nasakia camps were unbelievably
fantastic. The staff at all of the locations were wonderful. Kasim
at Naono Moru was especially helpful while we were there.
I must tell you that Kaskaz Camp must be your next winner. This new
camp was of course beautiful, but the staff was outstanding. I still
smile every time I think of them. What a great group of young men!
Their songs and dance for us was such fun. They seem to get along so
well together.
Needless to say, if anyone asks me for a reference for a safari, I
will definitely be recommending Maasa Wanderings.
Many thanks to all for a successful trip of a lifetime!
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fabulous Safari experience
We had a great Safari experience with Sunset Africa. We went for a one-week safari in Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater before flying to Zanzibar for another week of beach holiday.
Godfrey, with whom we organised the trip, was highly responsive and took good care of all our individual requests. He welcomed us personally at our first evening in Arusha.
Our driver Beni was highly knowledgable on the local wildlife, friendly, a safe driver who takes good care of the jeep and flexible.
Sunset Africa can also arrange holidays and tours in Zanzibar. We went on a great tour through Stone Town with our guide Abraham.
All in all we had an exciting and once-in-a-lifetime experience in Tansania. We can highly recommend Sunset Africa and would happily book with them again in the future.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Uganda 100 points!
Godwin organised everything for us brilliantly even including airport pick-ups and drops and was great at introducing us to a new country. Godwin was with us all the time with his assistant Stanley, and seemed to know exactly what we wanted by choosing the right hotels (at the right price) and then making every effort to ensure we saw all the wildlife, much of which we would have missed without such experienced guides. Much fun and jokes all the time on our travels which in the end took us from lake Bunyonyi in the southwest to Sipi Falls/Mt Elgon in the east of Uganda. Very flexible, no problem with our changes in plans and nothing was too much trouble. All in all, thoroughly recommended
under20 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Keddy 'All the way up'
Best Traveling guide i ever had, it was impossible to make it to the top of Africa!! Without him, special thanks to Safari and Samwel for accommodating us in this memorable trip.
Excellent service! Willing to climb again soon!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Five day climbing Mt Kenya up Sirimon down Chogoria route
We had an excellent five days. Joseph was a really good guide and made sure we went at a reasonable pace to avoid altitude sickness. As such, no part of the hike at all seemed strenuous! The cook, Daniel was amazing. The food far exceeded my expectations and was really excellent. Overall the crew were top class and made it a great trip.
I appreciate the level of professionalism with which the whole process was handled It was very impressive. Overall it was great trip and excellent value for money
NO
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Flexible and good safarioperator
Oakland Tours and Safaris helped me to arrange safaries to Lake Nakuru, Hells gate, Masai Mara and Samburu/Buffalo springs. They were very helpful and flexible in arranging safari tours for me and they were very easy and nice to communicate with. They tried to do their best to find good solutions for me in accordance to my wishes, my economy and my time table. For example did I very much want to go to Samburu/Buffalo Springs. While other safari operators dismissed any option for these parks if I was not willing to pay a really high price, Oakland helped me to find and arrange a solution that made it possible for me to do this safari within my budget.
So to some comments on each park:
Hells gate: I really liked this park. You can do the safari by yourself by bicycling or walking in the park. It is really different felling than being in a car. It is a unique experience to watch animals from the ground with no fence between. I had for example zebras just 6-7 meters away and a giraff just 15 meters away. The landscape is also special and very nice: it is like walking in the movie Lion King. The price for doing safari here is also much lower than in other national parks. I saw a lot of common zebra and warthogs, a big heard of buffalos, in addition to baboon, hyrax, thomson's, grant's, eland, impala, hartebeest and giraffe.
Lake Nakuru: It is a nice park - epesially the view from the baboon Cliff over lake Nakuru is stunning. Because the van i was going with started from Nairobi in the morning and would continue to another place in the evening the time we got in the park was in the middle of the day. To see especially the carnivors it is probably better to be there in the morning and evening. But just before we were to leave we saw both lion and striped hyena. We saw also animals like rothschild's giraffe, buffalo, waterbukk, zebra, impala, eland, hyrax, thomson's, grant's and baboons. White rihno did we see far away. There were unfortunately also very far away.
Massai Mara: Unfortunately I was there a little bit to late to see the big migrations. But even though, we saw a lot of different animals. We saw 10 different species of antilopes/gazelles and in total 22 different species of Mammals. The hightlight was probably to the lions and cheetahs just some meters from the car. We saw several different groups of lions - many of them moving around. I had 3 days for this safari, including transport to/from Nairobi. But the first and last day we just did a couple of hours with game driving because the transportation to/from Nairobi took so long time. So it was mostly the second day that was the day of time for game drive. The park is also quite big and therefore it takes a long time to transport between different parts of the park (for us for example the mara river was very far away). I would therefore suggest to focus on getting whole days in the park, rather than just morning/evening drives. We were also 8 people in our minibus, which in my opinion was too many becuase it gets quite crowded. I would therefore suggest that one ask to not be more than 5-6 people in the minibus one is traveling with. The second day we also got away from our camp late because the lunch we were going to have was not made ready.
Samburur/Buffaloo springs: A very nice parks that have a landscape and nature that is quite different from the more popular southern parks; it is much more dry. I saw all the "special five" (grevy zebra, oryx, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe and somali ostrich). Not at east the gazelle called gerenuk is very faschinating: it has very, vey slim legs and neck and it stands on just its hind legs and eats from bushes and trees. I also saw the lions very close to the car (these male lions have just a very tiny mane because of the heat) and a lot of elephants. Can really recommend to do a trip to these parks in the northern parts of Kenya.