Karibu World
- Located In:
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 1963)
- Member Of:
- IATA, TATO, TASOTA & Carlson Wagonlit
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $60 to $450 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Irene | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Safari in Noth Tanzania over a week
Karibu Safari came highly recommended by a friend, and their travel agent was very responsive to my e-mail correspondence in regards to planning my trip to Tanzania. I provided him my list of destinations I wished to see and they created a private safari itinerary to fit my interest at mid-level safari prices that I could afford. They literally provided door to door service from the airport to our hotel and even to our friends residence at the end of our safari. All their drivers were friendly, safe, and came in clean vehicles. Our safari guide was very experienced and knowledgeable about all the animals, plants, and local habitats. He was able to take us to see 4 out of the 5 big five animals (lions, leopards, elephants, hippos) along with pointing out many birds and other shy small animals like the dik dik. The company even provided high quality binoculars and he had good animal identification books to provide even more details about what we were seeing out our car vehicle. The first tented lodge we stayed at (Sagaiwe) was amazing, the food was excellent, and the lodgings were luxurious, they even had a pool. Unfortunately, none of the other places we stayed at could meet their high standard, but the staff at the Kenzan kirura camp were the friendliest and most helpful, and all of them were clean and safe. I was a bit disappointed to only be served Western styled food during our trip, it would have been nice to have tried some of the local cuisine for a more complete experience. When planning a safari trip, it is important to ask about road conditions and duration of travel between destinations, as I found that short distances on a map can take much longer then expected to traverse when its on unpaved dirt/gravel roads, which can waste precious vacation time. I would recommend visiting Tarangire, Lake Maynara, Ngorogoro, & Serengeti, to anyone wanting to experience everything in North Tanzania. If you are prone to motion sickness, I would recommend Lake Victoria over Lake Natron, unless you want to climb a volcanic mountain in the dark. The day guide that Karibu Safari provided for our hike of Kilamanjaro was very friendly and had a good eye for spotting wildlife, a good companion to have on a 6 hour hike. In general, Karibu Safari did a great job communicating with me, except during Ramadan, when our main contact was unavailable. They provided experienced friendly guides and good drivers, decent food and clean lodgings, and they helped us coordinate all our travels by taking care of booking plane tickets, rides to and from airport, booking hotels, and all the paperwork at every national park, and road fees; so that we could just sit back, relax and enjoy the trip.
Email Bejul Badiani | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Service
Karibu was very well organised in planning our trip to Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Sona Thakrar had taken in charge of our bookings, and I must say that she was very prompt with her responses and laid everything out to us very clearly. She had booked the best accommodation for us and so we have nothing but just praise from our whole trip and crew!
Asante Sana Karibu travels for being so accomodating. I would highly recommend anyone to use Karibu travels as they are always on top of things. Very grateful to Sona for her neverending effort in planning this trip, and for making our trip very personal and special. Keep up the good work, and we are truly satisfied with your five-star service!!
Email Diwyesh Rawal | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Tanzania Northern circuit safari
The tour was organised after discussion with Karibuworld staff (Ekram, Sona and Susai) who were very pro-active and provided use with lodging options while meeting my requirements to see all four national parks (Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti and Manyara). The driver cum guide (Rizwan) was very knowledgeable, experienced and helpful. The lodges and tents were quite good and services including packed lunches were as per expectations. Rizwan was always on time and took us to the best spots at the parks.
We flew early morning from Dar to Kilimanjaro airport and it was amazing to see the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro bright and snowy in the sunlight welcoming us to the safari. Rizwan was there with his welcoming smile and helpful hands to brief us about the tour and then started the wonderful journey to explore the nature we had set out for.
We thoroughly enjoyed Tarangire, specially the great swamp on day 1. The tented lodge was amazing and we had breakfast next morning watching the elephants about 20 metres away. Ngorongoro was fabulous and he stay at the tented accomodation at the top of the crater was quite chilly, yet memorable. Elephants and buffaloes passed by and we could see a few bushbucks and imphalas near our camp. Serengeti needs no introduction and it met our expectation. Amongst the hoards of animlas, we were particularly impressed seeing a leapord with its baby on a tree with a kill, a few cheetahs and many many lions including a kill where the lioness catch a warthog. Living at the tented lodge inside the serengeti plains near the Kopjes was quite an experience. Lastly Manyara was amazing with lots of hippos, zebras and wildbest by the lake and the hot springs of the great rift valley. The manyara lodge was fantastic where we could relax with a glass of wine and enjoy the lovely view of the lake from the balcony of our tent. We went for a nature walk early morning with a masai and also came across a local Bulu singer with his native instrument who sand a melodious song for us.
We must have seen countless varieties of birds (eagles, bustards, vultures, ostriches, flamingoes, hornbills, storks, secretary birds and many small colourful variants) , big cats including lions, leapords and cheetahs, wildbeasts, zebras, giraffes, impalas, dik diks, bushbucks, hippos, rhinos, gazelles, anteplores, ostriches, varieties of monkeys, crocodies, mongooses and hyenas. The vast serengeti grasslands, the ngorongoro heights and crater, the tarangire baobabs and manyara green forest and lakeside were each fabulous and left us mesmerised with the nature's bounty we had never experienced before.
We also visited the Oldupai Gorge on route to Serengeti from Ngorongoro, which is the cradle of civilization. It is absolutely fantastic for geologists and people interested in human evolution. It has the replica of the original footprints of the huminids and a story around it. On the last day while returning from Manyara, we visited the Masai village which was a wonderful experience. We danced with them and saw their way of life including their houses and a school for the young kids. Then we visited the Meserani Snake park at Arusha that was a great experience. We could hold the snakes and tortoises in our hand and had a good guide who explained the charactereistic of each reptile also informed that it was the only place in Tanzania where antidotes were available for snakebite.
The exparience to see the great rift valley, the ridge of the Ngorongoro mountain range at one end going right upto lake Victoria is simply unbelievable. We could see the earth's beauty in all its elements, the mountain ranges, green tops, the crater, grasslands, rivers, lakes, huge baobabs and other trees, animals, birds, reptiles, butterflies and ants in massive anthills. Never coudl I imagine so much in such a short time.
Some of the best memories that we ever had were during this trip. Highly recommended.
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Email Lucia Pivaral | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience with amazing people
The agent we had was Shivangi and she was super kind and helpful with all our travel and some other details we had. It was a wonderful and unique experience the Safari and all the attractions we visit also our guide of the safari Vincent, excellent guide he always was attentive with us. I totally recommend this experience with Karibu World very kind and amazing people.
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Email Shanmugam Venkataramana Subramanyam | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Safari experience of life time.
Dealt with Ms. Sona Thakrar of Karibu, she is very helpful and a very nice person to deal with.
My Friend Neel had arranged our Safari thro Sona and it was a very wonderful experience for all of us for a life time to remember.
Your driver was a very nice person and friendly in nature with good quality. We were very much happy with his friendly manner and enjoyed his company throughout our journey from Nov-22nd till Nov-26th.
We will always cherish our Tanzania visit and I am sure it would not be possible without Karibu World amazing facilities and the excellent hotel accomodations at Manyara, Serengetti and Ngorongoro....
Thanks Karibu
Trip of a Lifetime - Mwanza & Dar - Very Memorable, Safari was Truly Magical & Zanzibar was Glorious
Sona @ KaribuWorld put in a lot of Time, Enthusiasm & Expertise into organizing our Itinerary. It was clear to see that she had not missed out any minute details in planning our Trip. She was able to confidently advise us on what would best suit our needs & interests and we are thankful for her brilliant recommendations. She truly is an Asset to the company and we cannot wait to organize our next trip with Karibu World!
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A wonderful safari experience, especially thanks to Sona and Rizwan at Karibu World!
We had a wonderful trip to Tanzania and a truly memorable safari experience thanks to Karibu World! Karibu made the entire planning and vacation process seamless and smooth, and we were totally satisfied with the service we received. Sona at Karibut World and our tour guide Rizwan were both largely responsible for making this such a memorable and fun trip. Sona helped us throughout the entire planning process. She was patient and very supportive with all of my many (probably too many) emails and inquiries. I have a small baby and live in Ethiopia, so I relied heavily on Sona to take care of all of our planning needs, and she did a fantastic job... thanks! And in Tanzania, we were fortunate to have Rizwan as our guide and driver. He was incredibly knowledgeable, friendly, and, above all else, flexible and patient. We brought a one year old on the safari. We were very nervous about having him there and the challenges that might occur, but Rizwan was integral in helping us make it work with the little guy. He was flexible in altering plans as requested to meet our needs, while still helping us to see all of the amazing sites and animals on the game drives we went on. We will always be thankful for the very hard work that Rizwan put into the safari to make it memorable and fun. All in all, I would highly recommend Karibu World if you're interested in exploring Tanzania's wildlife and national parks!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Karibu World did an outstanding job organizing our safari...we loved it.
Tasneem Manwar at Karibu did an outstanding job helping us organize our safari and trip to Zanzibar. All our transport details went exactly as planned which helped reduce the stress of a trip of this type. Our driver/guide for Bushbuck Safaris did an outstanding job driving our vehicle, providing us information about the countryside and animals and always being punctual. Thanks so much for helping our safari being such as success.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
They were very accommodating when changes needed to be made to hotels and flights.
I was very pleased with my Karibu World experience and Bushbuck Safaris. I have lived in Tanzania for a long time, know the parks and was happy with my experience. They changed lodges to my specifications, arranged tours and drivers in Zanzibar and the game parks and everything went very well. I would definitely use them again.
Email Deepali | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Service
We had Shivangi as our agent and she really did an amazing job! I really enjoyed the trip and appreciate her help in planning this beautiful safari of Serengeti and Ngorongoro. From handling our last minute missed flight to organizing Ekadashi meal for me. I can’t thank you enough. We had an amazing journey. Driver was so cool. Hotels were the best. This is actually the first time we contacted travel agent for a local trip. And honestly Karibu World provided us the best service. We look forward to contact you in our future trips
