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65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Amazing wildlife, beautiful places and wonderful people - an excellent safari!
We are very happy that we chose to book our safari with East African Safari! In 13 days, we visited Ngorongoro, the Serengeti, Tarangire and Zanzibar and the trip more than met our expectations.
We found communication to be very good. During the planning process, Simon King kindly took our desires and expectations into account while also giving us very good advice. Later, when we ran into a snag on Zanzibar (concerning transport from Stone Town to Fumba Beach), Simon promptly solved the problem and also kept checking to make sure that all was well.
All of the staff, whether employees of the lodges or of East African Safari, were friendly, kind, and attentive. Our guide/driver, Ezekiel, was fantastic! We appreciated his expertise, his willingness to try to find the last of the wildebeest/zebra migration for my husband, and his sense of humor. Having visited game parks before on our own, we now understand how important an expert guide is. I cannot praise Ezekiel too highly! It is easy to measure a safari by the number of animals seen, but I felt that it was really all the wonderful staff who made our trip so memorable.
Some of the highlights of our trip included an afternoon walk with a ranger on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, the spectacular views from the rooms at Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge, the beautiful camp in the Serengeti (complete with a leopard for a neighbor), all the wildlife we saw of course, and Boundary Hill Lodge. There is no word for Boundary Hill Lodge, but magical. I loved every minute of our time there. The beauty, the quiet, the remoteness made me want to just stay. On Zanzibar, we wish we had spent less time in Stone Town (our choice, not on Simon’s advice) and more time at Fumba Beach Lodge, another wonderful place where you can sit by an infinity pool and watch the white sails of the dhows passing on the blue water of the Indian Ocean.
I am already thinking of another trip to East Africa and will certainly arrange my safari through East African Safari Co.
ES
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awesome and perfect safari prepared by Amazing Tanzania for our family
Everything in our safari tour was absolutely perfect!! The selected lodges were amazing and very special. We loved very particularly the luxury tented camp because it exceeded our expectations by far!! We had no idea how it was going to be and it was awesome! All the crew members were incredible, cool and they contributed to our three days there being absolutely amazing! The tents were perfect, the staff welcome on arrival was really warm, the food was delicious and all the details were outstanding. They took extra good care of all of us. We still miss that camp site. Furthermore, we had the best guide and driver one could possibly have! We had lots of fun with him and he was outstanding at spotting animals. He is the best. Thanks to Amazing Tanzania, and their excellent preparation of our safari, we had an amazing experience throughout our tour.
ES
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing safari in Tanzania
Hi all,
We organized a safari in Tanzania July 2013 with “I Dream of Africa” and it was amazing.
Christopher Samwel was our guide and driver and also he’s the owner of the company. We sorted all the details out by email before the trip, (Dates, accommodation, game-drives within a reasonable total price). He was very patient and helpful and of course he offered better price than many other agencies in Tanzania for the same itinerary.
We spent 6 nights between Taranguire, Serengueti and Ngorongoro National parks, and everything was perfect. Our trip was a private safari for two people in a Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4 full equipped (open roof, radio and a small fridge to have cold water all the time).
We saw “The Big 5” and we have the opportunity to see the Lions hunting in Ngorongoro (awesome).
I have to say the global service was better than expected: everything on time, (no delays), no problems with the car, and no extra cost for anything during the whole trip. So the safari exceeded our expectations.
By the way, Christopher was been working as a safari guide/driver for more than 20 years, so he knows everything and everyone into the nationals parks. Actually he’s a bird-watcher and biologist expert, therefore he explained to us with a perfect English all about wildlife, eco-system and nature. It was an incredible experience.
Finally I’d recommend this company to everyone who wants to make any kind of safari in Kenya, Tanzania or Zanzibar. It is totally reliable and competent.
Thanks to “I Dream of Africa” and special thanks to Christopher to make for us an extraordinary and unrepeatable safari.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing safari experience
I was part of a volunteer group that did both the Safari tour and Kilimanjaro climb. There are not enough positive words I can think of to describe the amazing, professional and personable experience I had with Warrior Expeditions. Pasa the founder is as authentic, genuine and caring as it gets. From start to finish, he creates the best itinerary to make sure you comfortably enjoy your time both in Tanzania and on your excursions.
Food was great, our tour guide even better and travel accommodations nothing less than stellar. Save yourself the time, energy and hassle and book a safari trip or Kili climb with Warrior Expeditions.
I am returning next June to have Warrior Expeditions arrange my Kili climb and I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!
IT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
wonderful experience
My husband and I, did a safari, from August 25 to September 3 through the parks of Tarangire, Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. It was a wonderful experience, our guide Ibrahim was fantastic, the lodge beautiful, especially the Roika Lodge and Kati Kati Lodge, great food and a wonderful hospitality. About Roberto and Greyson both very kind.
Thanks for everything
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best of Botswana tour; Well organised, great guide, great place to visit.
Hello,
Emily and I are well seasoned travellers, although this is the first time for a Safari. We went on the 13 day best of Botswana tour which is a mid range lodge / big safari tent tour. We have been on a few organised tours in the past and can safely say that this tour compares favourably.
We booked very late and during the peak season due to my expat work commitments. One of the advertised hotels wasn't available but Mzanzi adventures were very flexible and gave us a number of different options to choose from as an alternative. Mzanzi were also flexible as we weren't charged for the first night in Johannesburg as we didn't need the accomodation.
Bongi, Our tour guide was very knowledgeable about the local culture and animals. He had an amazing ability to read the bush on the game drives, we would have missed a lot without him. Bongi is clearly very experienced, he was very professional and attentive to our needs, he frequently checked to make sure everything was ok.
Our tour had far fewer people than the other groups, which meant that we often had the game vehicles to ourselves, the other groups were stuffed together like sardines. The tour vehicle that we had was very comfortable and I couldn't fault Bongi's driving. We were able to stop whenever we saw something that interested us. The accomodation was comfortable and clean (really lovely in Nata, Moremi and Chobe) and the food was very good, especially the Braai Brekkie in the Okovango delta.
We can honestly say that we have no regrets in booking with Mzanzi-Adventures, We think the tour offers good value.
Kind Regards
David and Emily Clifford
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It exceeded our expectations. The service was far and away top class! They really pamper you!
The communication and service from Michelle Usher was amazing!! I work as a customer care agent for AA for 22yrs and when it comes to customer service I am very picky and Michelle Usher has grat customer service and communications skills. The #1 reason why I would book my next Africa vacation with Thorn Bush is because of her service. She went far and beyond to make sure everything went well with our arrival specially considering that our flight was delayed for a few hours.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
I thought I knew Ruaha but... no...
Afriroots organised for us a camping safari in Ruaha, then a few days including walks in Eastern Usambara, in the Amani Reserve. I should first say, I knew both areas, or at least, I thought I knew them, having been there when I used to live in lovely Tanzania years back. Well... I had still a lot to discover, thanks to Afriroots. Faultess organisation and flexibility to accommodate our laziness at time, safe drivers also experienced in the areas we travelled in, wonderful 'camping with a difference' atmosphere in Ruaha, excellent and inventive cook (I'm a vegetarian), what else... I recommend Afriroots for all those who want to have this unique experience of a breakfast with a giraffe being interrupted by an elephant and Katuku, our driver, switching on the car engine to make sure that... we could continue to eat while watching whether really... the elephant was scarred enough for a little while. A GREAT TIME,
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent
Big time safari was great to me. Good price and also good service, it was my first time going on a safari and I wil use them again... I will recommend it to anyone without hestision!!
NG
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
I had a fantastic moment in my life. I wouldn't forget in a hurry...
Thanks to my great friend cum son ken sila, travelling with the team was great... so far the best in kenya header.. thank you KEN SILA