African Wildcats Expeditions Company

Fabulous experience and memory for life

Fully prepared and full of expectations we, mother and son, arrived in Tanzania for our Kilimanjaro expedition and safari organized by African Wildcats. Both surpassed our expectations! The Kili expedition was of course tough but such a great experience. We were escorted by Saidi and his crew and they all did a fabulous job! So kind, caring, experienced, wise and sensible. Amazing food, thank you Paulo. We loved the singing of our crew, especially when they joined us, singing, in the last part of our way back to base camp at the end of summit day. African Wildcats decision not to start summit day at midnight is a really good one. It helps you climbing and enjoying this tough last climb and makes sure that you'll have the whole summit, under the sun in the snow, to yourself. No one else on the summit makes the feeling of invincibility even bigger.
After 6 days on the Kili, we had a few relaxing safari-days with our very experienced guide Ole. He guided us to the right spots. We saw many animals and often really close. The Sangaiwe tented lodge, where we stayed the first night, is exceptionally beautiful; almost a pity we only arrived there at the end of the afternoon.
Thank you African Wildcats, for this fabulous experience and memory for life.
We will highly recommend African Wildcats Expeditions to anyone planning on visiting Tanzania for the Kilimanjaro expedition and safari.

wonderfull

We did a 10 day tour.
we visited different parks:
Lake Duluti; we walked and canoed around it, the birdlife was wonderful.
Arusha NP; we spotted the beautiful Colobus monkeys, many birds and other wildlife, even an elephant
came out of the bush for us.
Tarangiri; We did a lot of (early) game driving, sorry John, and saw some amazing things, the black eared
fox, leopard in a tree with his catch. Many elephants drinking in the dry river bed, digging holes
to collect the water.
Lake Manyara; the birdlife in the lake is amazing, but also the klipspringer and the lions were great.
Serengetti; We have never seen so many lions as this year, very special was a mother lion with 5 cubs,
walking and playing close to the car.
Every day we saw more lions, honeymooners, big groups laying on the Kopjes, and we will
never forget the cub laying close to the rocks just looking at us, rolling around and having fun.
The cheetah, who just lied behind a little bush, the Thomson gazelles came too close, off she
went, a kill, just in front of our vehicle.
The Serval who calmly walked by was amazing.
Ngorongoro; the rhino was hiding but we had a great time at the hippo pool, spotting rare birds .
The lions were doing a nice play, pretending they were going to kill a buffalo, but it was only a
try out for the youngsters.
All together we had a great time, saw some amazing wildlife, an enormous amount of birds, very small to very large. John was willing to stop as many times as we requested, drove around as long as we wanted....
early drives, with nice breakfasts after the drives .
Always helping to find out what bird we spotted, he new an awful lot of them, the rest we searched for in his book.
The camp sites and the (tented) lodges we stayed were on good locations.
We will never forget the elephant in the Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp, who came buy in the night, stopping in front of our tent, his trunk swinging on our veranda, with only the mosquito netting in between him and us was quiet an experience.
We had a great time, the safari was very well organised up to our wishes, and the information giving beforehand was very helpful.








Arusha, Tarangiri,

Amazing Time in Tanzania

This was the trip of a lifetime to Tanzania. African Wildcats (Jacob) took us to 5 amazing parks where we got to see every kind of wildlife; much more than we ever dreamed we'd see. Jacob takes pride in presenting his country and the people. The food was delicious and plentiful, the camps well set up, and our game drives over the top! We also enjoyed all of the cultural "people-to-people" experiences. We are so happy we were referred to African Wildcats for this experience.

Amazing Trip

We had an amazing trip with African Wildcats Expeditions! We've seen all the big Nationalparks in Tanzania and camped inside the parks. John, our tour guide, had a big knowledge of the animals and the rest of the nature. We felt safe at all times, also when buffalos and hyenas were next to our tent. Our cook was absolutely amazing (ask for Anold). The whole organization prior the tour as well as during the tour was great. I would definitely recommend this tour operator to everybody!

Trip of a lifetime!

We spent 8 glorious days on safari with African Wildcats in August & from our very first enquiry email to our drop off at our departure airport, I cannot express how amazing the whole experience was. Our guide John was professional, knowledgable, kind & fun - nothing was too much trouble for our Wildcat team in order to make it the trip of a lifetime for us! As a keen photographer I am delighted too with the many wonderful photographs that I got & am extremely grateful to John for finding the wonderful animals and getting the best possible view of them in their surroundings. We learnt loads about Tanzania's history, wildlife & cultures on our days in our trusty jeep with a lot of laughs on the way! Our lodge accommodations & every meal was perfect. I couldn't recommend African Wildcats Expeditions more highly.

I think the African Wildcats are the best.Our trip was great!

Look no further: Book your safari at African Wildcats Expedition Compagny.

To make it short: With a total of 16 photographers I made a 12-day (photo)safari with African Wildcats Expeditions Company. Good communication, good accomodations, a lot of interesting knowledge have these guys, flexible and good service and all for a fair price.

3 x Times we saw the Big Five!!!

For me it was the second time to visit lovely Tanzania. Without any doubt we booked our holiday at African Wildcats. Last time I visited it was the end of the dry season, now I visited just after the wet season, what a difference!
Lanscapes we now green, the grass was much higher but also other animals were to be seen.

The outcome was spectaculair: we saw 12 rhino's! Even one in the Serengeti!

I would like to thank Jacob, our guide, for his focus, humor but also persistence!! We just could not leave the parks without seeing every animal! :-)

Thanks again, and offcourse we will visit again!

A good guide makes a great difference!

We, a family of 4 with two kids of 6 and 8 years, did a two weeks holiday with the african wildcats. It was absolutely the best safari we have ever done! Jacob, the guide, made this difference cause of his experience and knowledge of the wildlife and its behaviour. Thanks to him we saw a live kill by a cheetah, we saw two times leopards climbing out of the tree to start hunting, we saw the start of the wildebeest migrations and plenty of wildlife (serval cats, the complete big 5!, lions from very close).
The accommodations were perfect, but that can be organised by all tour operators. I learnt now that it is really the guide that makes or breaks your safari! Jacob is top, enthusiatic and very motivated to make your safari a once in a lifetime experience!

A holiday to be cherised

In the summer of 2016 we made in a trip to Northern Tanzania and Zanzibar. In the months before the trip we were able to organize the trip together with their staff exactly to our, rather specific, wishes. That was allready part of the fun. They did an excellent job and managed to find the location of a farm my wife's father started around 1955. They visited the place (at a really remote location!) to check it out before we arrived and made it possible for us to visit that place and meet the new owners who showed us around. This was very special for us but the rest of the trip was equally well-organised. We camped in Arusha NP (the best start possible, walking safari's, wonderfull scenery at the campsite and very relaxed), near Monduli, Tarangire NP, tribes near Lake Eyasi, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater. Our driver drove very safely and had a tremendous knowledge of wildlife. We as biologists must have challenged him really though but we were completely satisfied. And he was a really nice person as a company which is also very important if you are so close together in a car for weeks. He became a lifetime friend. The cook also was very important for the trip. We were always very hungry before the meals and satisfied smiling afterwards. He certainly deserves a Michelin star for his avocado salad if we may only mention one dish. Real Tanzanian delicious food. And superfresh, we had no problems with our stomachs or other inconveniences. We saw far too much wildlife to mention it here, but a group of elephants chasing away more than a dozen lions, the crossing of the river Mara by wildebeasts and zebras and the animals walking around the campsites during breakfast were certainly experiences we'll remember the rest of our lives.
After the safari we stayed on Zanzibar. Relaxing at the beach and visiting Stonetown and Chumbe island.
We highly recommend African Wildcats to organise your safari. We think you won't be disappointed.