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Tanzania Explorer
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- ATTA & TATO
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $1,000 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Aleksander | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Safari-experience
To experience a safari in Tanzania has been a lifelong dream of mine, and last january the dream was fulfilled. We were 4 guys leaving Norway, and was going for a real roadtrip in Tanzania to see the best safari locations. When we landed in Tanzania we were met for our guide in Tanzania, Rashid. He was the perfect guide, and showed us both Mikumi and Ruaha in an excellent way. I can absolutely recommend Ruaha, the place is unbelievable, with green nature, a lot of animals, and very few turists, so you feel like your in the wild, and not in a zoo.
Tanzania Explorer put up a custom trip just for us, and we couldn't be happier about it. We also combined it with a trip to Zanzibar, with beaches you can't imagine.
My best recommendations for this, and a special thanks to Sondre who made it all possible. A trip I will never forget.
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Email Truls Rime | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Simply the best!
Tanzania Explorer delivered an a perfect trip. From the very nice location and the apartment we rented in Dar Es Salam, with everything we needed on a daily basis, just a quick walk away.. ATM, pharmacies, grocery store and restaurants!
The Safari experience was so god, Jimbiza Lodge delivered what we were hoping for. Living in wild life! Beautiful view over the river, monkeys running around.. Perfect!
Zanzibar maybe the best place on earth… The beaches, the food, the people, the girls.. Everything is just a bit better than every other place on earth smile emoticon Hotel Sahari was perfect for us. Quiet and easy going, not to many people at the hotel. And just a short taxi drive to other restaurnats and party places!
A special thanks to our guides/drivers/family therapist/bargain-helper/advisers/wingmans Banja and Rashid that helped us alog the way with everything!
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Email Marius Holmen | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect Christmas and NewYears Safari with Tanzania Explorer
Last christmas me and a couple of friends traveled to Africa. The thought of seeing and experience the wildlife on the African savannah have always been a dream of mine.
We picked out Tanzania after reading online reviews about the area, the parks, the variation of wildlife and off course chances of seeing a lion.
We contacted Tanzania Explorer, gave them our ideas about the trip, our budget, the duration of the holiday and what we wanted to see and experience. After a little time, they came back to us with a plan, combining safari and high luxury at Zanzibar perfectly. Local and serviceminded guides and staff at the resorts made the safari so good. The guides local knowledge about the different parks, the animals and speaking english made the safari even better. Elephant, lions, crocodile, giraffs, we saw it all :) After the safari which lasted 5 days, we ended the holidays with 5 more days at Zanzibar. We lived at a place called Fruit and Spice which Tanzania Explorer recommended to us. High luxury, great service, food and a perfect place to start of the new year.
Tanzania Explorer provided us with all neccesary info about the trip on advance, vaccines, local currency, prepayments, what to expect when arriving at the airport in Dar es salaam and so on. I felt in control and taken care of throughout the entire trip. If you have plans going to Tanzania on a safari, I would definetly recommend Tanzania Explorer.
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Email Inge | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great organization
We contacted Sondre in February to ask his advice on safari in Tanzania, climbing Kilimanjaro and seeing gorilla's in Rwanda. Being a group of nine persons, living in 5 different countries, wanting different things before the safari we would do together, we were not easy to manage :). We finally decided and booked in June.
Sondre handled everything very patiently and thoroughly. Very good and detailed advice and excellent service and logistics, both before the trip and during.
He advised us to do the safari in the southern, less touristic, parks of Tanzania and we are very happy that we followed his advice.
We landed in Dar (were picked up), stayed at the excellent company apartment, and were driven by Paul and Rashid to Mikumi, Udzungwa Mountains and Ruaha NP. We flew from Ruaha to Zanzibar at the end of the safari, where we were picked up and brought to our hotel by Banja.
The safari lodges (Vuma Hills, Hondo Hondo and Ruaha River Lodge) were of very good standard and served great food.
The game drives were amazing! We even saw a leopard in Mikumi, which is supposedly quite rare. Mikumi is more of a savanne, where Ruaha is greener.
We spend most of our time in Ruaha and we saw leopards and lions every day (up close and personal) and of course giraffes, elephants, hippos, zebras, bat eared foxes, jackals and many birds, big and small.
A fantastic experience!
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Email Stian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Experience of a lifetime!
My wife and I had never been to Africa before, but had been wanting to visit for quite some time. In our search we came across Tanzania Explorer who states in their slogan; "We show you Africa". They did just that- and then some!! We could not have been more happy with our choice! We came in contact with Sondre and his team who bespoked a trip which were just perfect for us as first time visitors. We were given all necessary travel information before departure, and everything were planned in detail before setting off. During our trip we stayed at 4 different locations and had 3 domestic flights. All the places we stayed at was just perfect, we were picked up and dropped off at scheduled times and everything was executed as planned - in detail. Specializing in bespoke travels, they really put together Africa like we wanted to explore it!Tanzania Explorer exceeded our expectations and we can highly recommend travelling with them. We definately will!
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Email Gerd & Hårek | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent trip to Tanzania - thanks to Tanzania Explorer
In 2012 we decided to travel to Tanzania, first of all to climb Kilimanjaro, but we also wanted to go on a safari, and last but not least have some lazy days at Zanzibar when the first two was done!
The trip was planned to February 2013.
Lucky us - we "found" Sondre and Tanzania Explorer at the Travel Fair in Oslo in 2012!
He/they made a tailor-made trip for us, excellent job done by Sondre both with the package he made for us before we went to Tanzania, and following up during the trip! It was amazing! They have the best guides to take ut to the top of Kilimanjaro (we reached the top!!!) and the guide at the safari was super! Spoken very good english, was kind and nice - and showed us all kinds of animal at the safari trip. He also had a great sence of humor, so we had 4 wonderful days at safari in three different national parks.
When we arrive Zanzibar, they have picked the best for us, and when a small problem appear, Andrea from Tanzania Explorer, stationed in Tanzania - solved it in no time!
They do their best for us so that we would have the greatest time in our lives, and they succedeed!!
I highly recommend Tanzania Explorer to all I know (and don't know), and I really hope that we will get the opportunity to travel with them again.
Thank you Tanzania Explorer!!
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Email Khalid Dadi | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Tailormade to our expectations
My wife and I had an amazing trip to Tanzania/Zanzibar much thanks to the well organized Tanzania Explorer team.
This trip was our first trip together to Africa in which had many requests and a lot of questions!
Key points for us was to get as close as possible to the Tanzanian wild life, experience the white sandy beach of Zanzibar, introduction to the melting pot of the Tanzanian culture and special history and offcourse at the same time getting most value out of our tight budget!
And I must say that we were really impressed of the time, effort and the service that the Tanzania Explorer team provided in order to tailor make our trip exactly and at times above our expectations! All team members that we met throughout the trip had a lot of local knowledge and in addition the very service minded dedication made us feel perfectly safe and as a consequence the ultimate vacation experience!
As a note, we had already been in touch with many of the other travel agents and they seemed to be good however the Tanzanian Explorer Team showed us dedication, patience (as really listening to our various requests) and they really went out of their way to try and meet all our requests and importantly they immediately made us feel that no special requests or thoughts were too strange or too difficult.
We really felt that it was not all about the money either...we really felt that the trip was all about us and our satisfaction were their prime goal!
If you are looking for tailor made trips in Tanzania this is definitely the Travel agent to go for
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Email Bob | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Kilimanaro Trek and Serengeti Safari - December 2015
We have just returned from an excellent trip to Tanzania which was organized for us by Tanzania Explorer. Six members of our family enjoyed a successful summit trek on Kilimanjaro consisting of 7 days on the Rongai route, followed by a four day safari in Serengeti National Park. The entire trip was planned for us from the time we arrived at the Kilimanjaro Airport until we departed two weeks later. All transportation was well arranged, our lodging accommodations were great, and we had great guides for both the Trek and Safari. With all of the preparatory information sent to us from Tanzania Explorer, we were well prepared for the trip, and all of our expectations were met or exceeded! This was truly a trip of a lifetime! Thanks Tanzania Explorers for an excellent adventure in Tanzania!
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Email Karianne | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
Thank you for the best vacation ever!
Everything was planned and executed perfectly and we felt good taken care of.
I especially appreciate Tanazania Explorers ability to seamlessly put together so many activities and experiences and still give the feel of a relaxed holiday.
Asante sana
I will be back :-)
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Email Frida Grundström | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The Safari Company of our dreams
If you are researching for the Safari Company of your dreams- you can stop looking because you have just found it!
Before starting to write this review me and my boyfriend really tried to come up with one single feedback that we could give to Tanzania Explorer but honestly, we could not come up with one single thing. So if you are a traveller that likes to read about both positive and negative aspects of an experience, you better stop reading now because you will not be able to find anything else than positive information in this review!
To sum it up: Tanzania Explorer is by far the best travel company that we have ever experienced and I have worked in the travel industry during different periods of my life and have never ever met a travel company like Tanzania Explorer- they are simply outstanding!
Here is why:
Pre-travel:
As a safari traveller, researching which travel organizer and park that you want to go to is essential for the success of your trip! Good thing you do not need to do all of that research because we just did it for you :) We researched for safari organizers for several weeks without really feeling that we had found a perfect match, a perfect match for our budget as well as for our requests. And then we got in contact with Sondre at Tanzania Explorer and that was it! Sondre quickly understood what type of travellers we are and responded promptly with multiple different safari solutions and packages in the park Selous Game Reserve as we had requested since we had heard that this park would be wonderful! All of the solutions were customized to fit both our interest, personalities as well as our budget. He made sure that we would get the very most out of our budget and furthermore provided us with multiple different options of camp accommodations to stay at. He responded extremely quickly on all of our questions, day & night, and a month before departure we had almost daily contact were he was a true star on providing customer service and gladly assisted in any matter!
During-travel:
All the way from when we arrived to the airport in Dar Es Salaam until the end of our safari we had the time of our lives! Our wonderful safari guide Rashid was very knowledgeable and made sure to adapt our daily safari tours to our own preferences on which type of animals that we wished to see! And here comes a common misunderstanding- being on a safari should not be like the experience of visiting a zoo= of course you can not be guaranteed to see every single animal that you would like to see! But exactly that is what makes safari with Tanzania Explorer so special: Rashid started every morning by asking us what preferences we had for our upcoming day and during every day he managed to track the animals that we really wanted to see- even the wild dog!
Another highlight of our days at the safari with Rashid was our fantastic lunch hours! Rashid set the table in scenic locations where we could eat & relax for some time before continuing the rest of our safari day!
During our time in Selous Game Reserve we stayed at two different camps, Selous Great Water Lodge and Selous River Camp. Both of the camps are camps that we can highly recommend any couple/family/group that are looking for an authentic experience.
During our 4 day safari tour we were able to go on 1 boat safari, 2 full Game-Drives and one Walking Safari- we loved them all and we felt like this set-up was a wonderful way to get a diverse experience of all the animals and their habitants. After 3 nights in Selous Game Reservoir it was unfortunately time to leave the wilderness behind but our adventure continued with another 10 days at Zanzibar! At Zanzibar we made our hotel bookings after recommendations from Sondre and we also received a lot of helpful tips from Banja, one of Tanzania Explorer´s representatives on the island, on what to do and see to get the most out of our island life at Zanzibar.
Post-travel:
Arriving back home from sunny Tanzania to a -26 degrees snowy and cold Sweden was not an easy game but just an hour after landing we got an email from Tanzania Explorer checking that everything had worked out well with our flight and that we were safe & sound!
Both my boyfriend and I love to dive and during our last dive on Zanzibar he completely shocked and surprised me by proposing on the bottom of the ocean. After 8 years together, the answer was of course a happy YES!
When arriving back home I also got the information from my boyfriend that Sondre and Tanzania Explorer had even been involved in trying to find solutions for getting my engagement ring all the way to Zanzibar and this really closed the deal of our whole experience with Tanzania Explorer- they really go the extra mile to create the experiences of a life time!
Tanzania Explorer, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for a once in a life time journey with you! We will never forget it or you, and we will come back for sure one day!
Best of luck and warm wishes from Sweden,
Frida & Stefan