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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our dream comes true and beyond!
We love Ryan and Thale, we're having a 10 days family tour with them right now. It's been amazing and super lucky. They went out of their way to arrange everything to make sure we're pampered。they even arranged our flight, resort stay and pickup/drop off before tour started. We've two kids 8 & 6 and they adore Ryan & Thale. They're not only super aknowlegable as guides, also a super cook, playmate for our kids. They made our dreams come true. Kids are convinced Ryan can talk to animals and he can make them to show up.
We also got to meet their family and they're all very warm and fun. We've been traveling around the world, South Africa is definitely our highlight. Thank you Ryan and Thale!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip Of A Lifetime!
From beginning to end superb service and lifetime experience. Flavia assisted me all the way, from bargaining to get the best safari deal, endless emails to make sure this trip will be remembered by all 14 of us friends and family, my sound board with ebola concerns, getting all plans in order with all the major airline schedule changes that gave us high blood pressure rescheduling all flights, all scheduled airport pick up as all of us are going on different flights and routes, some of us getting bumped on flights that made her change pick up schedule last minute too close to start of safari games, the game itself for 4 days that gave us memories we can never forget, yummy food prepared for us at all places we stayed even during camping in the middle of nowhere in Serengeti where we had 2 cooks with us serving us fresh meal, to the end of the trip and back to the airport. ILL CALL IT FLAWLESS! All bumps along the road were ironed out like they were nothing! Great drivers/guides, Bashir, Richard and Charles. We got MORE than we bargained for. Exceptional service! Awesome trip! I love Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater! It is so true, Tanzania never disappoints! Will do it again in a heart beat!!! Thank you Shadows of Africa team for a great experience.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
13 days, 4,000 Km, wildlife, culture, countless memories...and a new friend!
My friend and I were fortunate to spend 6 weeks in Southern Africa this summer. While we traveled with a small group for the 1st half of the trip, we decided to engage a private guide for our travel in Namibia. We wanted a small, family run outfit, rather than a mega safari operator. I selected 3 from safaribookings.com. Marta, with Wild Wind Safaris responded quickly, and from our initial email interaction, I had a positive feeling.
As we would be spending almost 2 weeks together, it was very important that we be comfortable with one another. She was clearly knowledgeable and experienced, and eager to understand our hopes and expectations for the trip, and to clarify any limitations. I outlined our primary interests, and she promptly developed an excellent itinerary, encompassing all the important places and experiences. Importantly, she was also flexible enough to make some changes as we went along.
She was careful to establish the type of accommodation we preferred, and without exception, all her choices were most satisfactory, some excellent. I should also note that WWS prices were competitive with other quotes, frequently lower.
I’m happy to say we had at least as much enjoyment out of our time with Marta as we’d had with the travel group in the previous 4 African countries….and it was a more personal experience. While she was always professional, it felt more like traveling with a friend than a guide. One of the most enjoyable aspects of her personality was her enthusiasm. She seemed as excited as we were to catch the perfect sighting!
We put in some long days! We traveled 4,000km together, most of the time on gravel roads! Marta wanted to be absolutely certain we got the most we could from our Namibian experience. She never ended the day at 5 pm, rather we had exciting adventures many evenings as well.
I would recommend WWS most highly, without reservation. It is my hope to return to Africa before too long, and I look forward to again traveling with Marta.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Had a wonderful experience using tailor made safaris they helped plan my amazing proposal!
The communications were simply and straight forward and all the trip was planned to perfection. would certainly use the services again. The safari tour itself was excellent considering the weather problems but they still went out of there way to cater for myself and my partner. highly recommended!!!
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65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful Experience!
Having experienced a tour to South Africa 2 years ago (safari, Victoria Falls, Cape Town), we knew we wanted to return for the "safari only" experience. We also wanted a private tour. From our first email to Selma, we knew we were in good hands. She responded quickly to every question and helped put our minds at rest when it came to wire transferring a fairly large amount of money to a bank in Africa that we knew nothing about! She helped us refine the trip to reflect our exact wants and needs. We chose to travel exclusively in Tanzania, visiting 5 parks. The entire trip went without a hitch, from being picked up at the airport, to being dropped off 14 days later. Our guide, David, was excellent; able to answer any question, great sense of humor, and a spectacular driver! He knows the parks so well, and tried to take to spots where everyone else was not, making for a much more private feeling. We saw every animal possible, including the requested python! He was always on time with a plan in mind for the day, stopping a thousand times for photo taking. The jeep was always clean at the start of the day (no small feat in a very dusty area). Our accommodations ranged from 3+ star to 5 and we were happy with all, with only a few minor issues. I would suggest looking online to see what you will be getting and change any you don't want. We decided on a combination of tents and lodges which was a wonderful experience. The staff at every one of them were incredible. To sum up, Makasa did an excellent job providing us with the safari trip we'd hoped for......quite the trip of a lifetime!
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best tour guides!!
They took very good care of us, because of the very good service we had the best trip full of pleasant memories.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Simply the best tour company
Took this package for 3days mara and i loved the level of professionalism,hospitality and quality of service.
If you thinking of safari,camping,adventure,birding and conferencing. They best and i wouldn't regret trying them again and again.
God blessings.
Great safari!
Went for two days with Quest Horizon on safari. I was so pleased, very good and professional guide, well planned and many beautiful animals!
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great!
We had a wonderful experience. Everything was perfectly organized for a tailor-made tour exactly as we wanted, with quick e-mail contact and excellent suggestions. Our driver (Stewart) was laid-back and friendly, and very knowledgeable about the nature and animals. Most of all he had a remarkeable spotting ability, finding us everything we could wish for (he even managed to get very up close and personal with a huge male lion!). Abdullah was also an excellent, excellent cook and alltogether we felt the entire team took great care of us and was motivated to get us the very best experience.
Highly recommended!
ES
An absolutely wonderful experience
It was a wonderful experience all the expectations we had amply fulfilled. Our guide was very professional, he showed us the beauty of this destination always meeting our requests.
The perfect organization, we hire on our own flights and safari with them and there was no problem. We were picked up at the airport and at all times we were accompanied and perfectly served.
Highly recommended.