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Soul of Tanzania
- Office In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2015)
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $150 to $400 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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If preferred, you can contact the operator directly
Reviews
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Email Susanne Andersen | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic Safari experience
My husband and I went for our first Safari tour in February. We chose Soul of Tanzania as our tour organizer, which we can only recommend. Everything was from arrival to departure as or above expectations on the tour. The private car was in good condition. Excellent food during the drives, very nice lodges with spectacular views and very friendly personal and not least the company of our driver Roger Msengi. We had been told upfront that he was especially knowledgably about birds which really came to prove itself on the tour. Also prior to the tour, Soul of Tanzania responded immediately on our request and questions. Overall a perfect service and we will definitely recommend for others to use Soul of Tanzania as their tour organizer
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Email Polona | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It was great and wonderfull experience.
We visited Serengheti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara in december 2017. I have to say, Soul of Tanzania made our visit marvellous, excellent. So if you are planning safari trip, I would strongly recommend Soul of Tanzania. They really made our trip unforgettable. They had fulfille every request we made. We were travelling with a little child and everything run smothly. Lodges were great, food also.
Our guide Pius was really nice and kind and great driver and he answered an all our questions about Tanzania, Africa, nature and the most important - animals! We saw elephants, zebras, giraffes, hippos, buffalos, lions, cheetah, and also rhinos, and many many other animals.
If I ever have a chance of visiting Tanzania again, I know that I will be contacting Soul for booking a tour :)
DE
Email Viviana | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Just excellent! Amazing 16 days Safari Tour at it’s best
Just excellent! Not to miss if you are planning a safari trip to Tanzania
If you are planning a safari trip to Tanzania, you may find difficult to select a tour company. It took us a lot of effort to select one for our 16 days 20th anniversary trip last January. So glad that we came across Soul of Tanzania!
Everything was planned to the detail, to the best standards.They let you participate in the planning process, with a selection of routes, national parks and lodging. Once there, everything runs very smoothly, starting with a perfect conditioned vehicle and your guide picking you up at the airport, to a extensively informative meeting with Iris Duba, the Operations Manager in Arusha. Cant thank enough her to her assistance all along the 16 days trip. she is available for any questions or issues that may arise.
Our guide, Herman, is just fantastic. An amazing person, very friendly and nice to be with, with an incredible knowledge of wildlife of all sorts. We recommend him to anyone for such an adventure!
Please feel free to contact me here if anybody has questions about this review.
Viviana & Martin, Munich, Germany
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Email KLKandMMK | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Memories and Stories for Life
Soul of Tanzania created a fantastic 8 day safari itinerary for us and promptly responded to any questions we emailed prior to our journey.
Never having gone on safari before, we were slightly apprehensive, but all concerns vanished upon arrival when we met Herman, our guide who immediately made us feel welcome and comfortable.
Herman went above and beyond to make our experience beyond anything we could have ever dreamed. He patiently and knowledgeably answered hundreds of questions about the numerous animals we encountered. He enthusiastically searched the bush with his keen eyes all the while driving through rugged terrain to make sure we could witness the animals up close and personal. Had we attempted the trip on our own we would have missed 90% of the animals, but Herman’s skill and incredible instinct allowed us to experience all of the big 5 plus countless others we hadn’t previously heard of in their natural settings. Zoos will never be the same now that we’ve been “infected” with “safari fever”!
A few highlights:
Delicious gourmet lunches surrounded by fantastic scenery.
25 feet from cheetahs and lions
Lunch 50 feet from a pride of 18 female lions and cubs.
Lunch amid a herd of 1000’s of wildebeests and zebras
A herd of elephants playing in a pool of water about 100 feet from our Jeep
Herds of Cape Buffalo, giraffes, baboons, warthogs, and elephants crossing the road before us
Learning about and warm welcomes from the Masai, Dartoga and Hadzabe peoples.
Email Anna | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing. Recommended with no reservation !!!!
Recently we went on a Safari trip organized by Soul of Tanzania. An amazing experience. All well organized, care-free and made very memorable for us by the representatives of the Soul of Tanzania. From the initial communication to arrange for our journey, to the lodges, parks that they suggested to us, all were amazing and very well- exceeded expectations.
Our guide Dominik Meague was a wonderful guide, very knowledgeable of the area which made our experience so amazing.
We stayed at lodges and tented camps which were absolutely beautiful, amazing scenery of Tanzanian parks and landscape and with very friendly staff
Amazing!!!
It was a pleasure to traveled with the Soul of Tanzania andwe couldnt be more pleased with the choice.
Super attentive at all times, fun and a helpful staff. The choice of places to stay was wonderful and in everything we need we can count on them.
Without a doubt to repeat and I advise everyone who wanted to participate in this adventure.
5 star service! :)
Many thanks!
PT
Email Paula Viana | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
AMAZING EXPERIENCE
Thank you Soul of Tanzania for making our trip an amazing experience!
Zamo, our game drive, is a very nice person, good driver, extremely professional, attentive to detail, polite, discreet and has a hawk eye for animals.
Lunches were tasty. Service was top! Warm food, cold wine, fresh coffee and good cookies... and nice tableware :)
We loved every detail.
We strongly recommended SOUL OF TANZÂNIA!
CH
Email Herbert and Ursula | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing Tour with Soul of Tanzania
Our customized 8-days safari trip was well organized and perfectly accomplished by our guide and driver Pius.
The itinerary was well-balanced so that we encountered a great number of wildlife. We had to face adverse weather conditions with flooding but Pius managed us through any difficulties with great skills and coolness. He never lost his patience and was very firm on matters when the situation required it. His knowledge about flora and fauna is impressive, and he proved to be an excellent lion, leopard and cheetah whisperer. We were very happy with Pius and can unconditionally recommend him and Soul of Tanzania to any interested party.
There were so many highlights that it is difficult to list them. The whole package was inherently consistent with every day providing some new experiences. One of the big highlights was definitely our balloon ride over the Serengeti. This is a unique experience.
Over all it was definitely a memorable journey in Africa’s Nature and our experience with the very friendly people we met all over the country. Good hotels and good food, sometimes great food (Ndutu Lodge) completed our adventure.
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Email rb | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Safari with Soul of Tanzania
My wife & I took a safari with Soul of Tanzania and they were fantastic. Not enough can be said for how well the organization is run. To start, their responsiveness when answering emails & questions was second to none when searching for a provider. They helped craft a great trip and answered any questions we had honestly. While in Tanzania, our guide Huruma that we were paired with was fantastic & helped make our trip even more enjoyable. The Lunch setting they provided was also a nice touch, if you are eating in the park they make it a beautiful picnic arrangement. When we come back we will be using Soul again.
We can't say enough good things about Soul of Tanzania, highly recommended.
CN
Email Kong Y | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing Safari, wonderful experiences!
I took a 6-day safari with my 7-year old son Curtis in Serengeti, Ngrongro Crater, Ndutu and Manyara, facilitated by Soul of Tanzania, between late December and early Jan. The tour was so enjoyable that we'll definitely come back to Serengeti in the near future.
4 months ago, Curtis and I spent 3 nights at a bush lodge in Kruger national park, South Africa, 2 safaris each day, we thought that trip was great, but to our pleasant surprise, this tour was even better.
A Leo himself, Curtis is a big lover of big-cats. We saw quite a few leopards in Kruger, but since leopards and lions wouldn't show up in the same territory, we missed the lions no matter how hard the ranger tried to find them. So when Soul local manager Iris asked Curtis what he mostly want to see when we were greeted the first night at an Arusha hotel, Curtis promptly replied, "lions, of course!" With a confident smile, Iris assured Curtis, "oh, you will see more than enough." Our soft-spoken tour guide/driver Amani added, a bit conservatively, "you will see no less than 20 lions." Really? Curtis wasn't quite convinced.
As it turned out, we saw at least 10 prides, a total of more than 70 lions, most of them from very close distance!
Here are just a few highlights:
-- A pride of 20+ lions magnificantly marching by our vehicle for several minutes, just a few feet away;
-- In the morning of New Year's Day, Lion King waled directly to our vehicle, a 4x4 Land Cruiser, encountering his young lady literally one yard from our right front tire, mating right there in our awe! Their happy hour repeated, on and off, every 8-10 minutes, until the exhausted queen climbed up a tree nearby;
-- 2 young cheetah brothers took turns to enjoy their kill, an adult wildebeest, lips red, belly full;
-- A leopard killed another on top of a tree, most likely out of territorial dispute, the victim miserably hanging up there, the guilty murderer ran hiding in a rock cave, serectly peeking out, gazing its prey from a distance.
Yeah, indeed, more than enough, not to mention thousands of flamingos in Manyara lake, wildebeests, gazelles and zibras in Serengeti and Ndutu.
Why I picked Soul over other big-name tour companies? I enjoyed the pleasant email communications with Soul's sales consultant Christina and Miguel from the very beginning, who are sincere, considerate, detail-oriented, honest, insightful, and always reponded in timely manner.
In sum, the 6-day program Soul carefully tailor-made for us, the comfortable accomodations, the very experienced tour guide Amani, the hot meal lunches (as opposed to the lunch box by other safari tours that we noticed at picknic sites), are all beyond expectation.
Good job, Soul, Curtis and I are already discussing the "crossings" in August.
