Gilmag Safaris Staff
Gilmag Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2016)
- Member Of:
- Tanzania Association of Tour Operators
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $250 to $1,200 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Ling | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our Safari Highlight: Our Guide Siha from Gimag.
As Chinese travelers in Africa, safety is our top priority—especially since we're a group of four women. That’s why having a reliable guide matters so much.
Our guide, Siha, left a deep impression on us. With his kind and approachable demeanor, and though he’s around our fathers’ age, he’s full of youthful energy and passion.
We felt truly lucky to have Siha lead our safari. With over 20 years of experience, he knows the animals, terrain, and local culture inside out. Thanks to him, we learned so much and broadened our horizons.
What also stood out was his thoughtfulness. He quietly noticed we love chili sauce and Coca-Cola, and even brought us some at his own expense. When we expressed interest in seeing a leopard, he went out of his way to take us to different spots in search of one.
I’d wholeheartedly recommend Siha to anyone visiting. He’s enthusiastic, optimistic, driven, and makes you feel safe and cared for—a guide you can truly trust.
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Email SuperBin | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing trip,amazing Gilmag
Thanks to Gilmag for arranging a perfect trip to Tanzania for us. The connection was very smooth from the beginning. The Chinese contact Felix was very professional and patiently answered every question. I would like to especially thank our guide Siha. He was an excellent guide. He was very professional and explained a lot of animal knowledge to us. He knew everything about Serengeti like an animal expert. We saw lions and cheetahs very close.He left early every day and was the last one back every day. He also brought tableware to provide us with hot lunch every day, which other people did not have.Our team was very satisfied with Siha.I highly recommend Siha, the best guide in the world.
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Email LULU | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very good
If you're planning a trip to Tanzania, don't hesitate to choose Gilmag Safari. They have professional sales, professional guides, and excellent vehicles—everything is excellent.
I want to pay tribute to our guide, Siha. On our last day, when we told him we wanted to see a leopard, Siha did his best to help us find one, and he successfully found one in a tree. After returning to Arusha, we had a Chinese dinner with Siha. Thank you, and thank you to the Gilmag team.
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Email Rain | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
see many animals, including the Big Five, a lion family and baby cheetahs
This safari was truly amazing and an unforgettable journey. I'm very grateful to the local travel agency for their meticulous arrangements. What surprised us the most was our guide, Siha, who was professional and responsible. He led us to see many animals, including the Big Five, as well as some breathtaking and heartwarming scenes like a lion family and baby cheetahs. Siha himself was humorous and fun, filling the entire trip with laughter. The accommodation booked by the local agency was also excellent, with great service. I highly recommend Gilmag Safaris—it will surely amaze you!
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Email Zijing | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Journey with Gilmag Safaris！！
Our safari with Gilmag Safaris was absolutely incredible, largely thanks to our guide, Emmanuel. His professionalism was remarkable, with deep knowledge about the wildlife and ecosystems. His passion was contagious, and his attentive, detailed service—anticipating our every need—made the trip seamless and extraordinary. A heartfelt thanks to Emmanuel for making our journey so unforgettable!
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Email Shana | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent ！
It’s a really unforgettable trip full of surprises,happiness,uncertainties and so on. The guide of our trip,siha,is so nice and professional,he showed so many different kinds of animals ,including the big great five and lots of birds……Everything seemed perfect of our trip and I’ll come back next time soon!
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Email YuuuuuuuuuY | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Safari experience with GILMAG
This is our first time Safari and it is amazing journey in Tanzania with GILMAG.We are lucky have Nickson as our guide and provide great service with all the time. Adequate experience on Safari and Patience on introduction. Also we have nice contacts Felix who has strong sense of responsibility and quick response .Big Thanks to the team and we have wonderful vacation!
Good service! Perfect trip
Our guide was awesome! He showed us all the animals we wanted to see. Felix's service rocked too - totally worth picking gilmag!
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Email Eliud Teso | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exceeded our expectations
My sister and I just returned from unforgettable holiday organised by Gilmag Safaris. We visited Ngorongoro and Serengeti. We saw all the big 5 and can't thank our guide, Frank for delivering this amazing experience. Our safari jeep was comfortable. We even had hot coffee and tea while on game drives.
I highly recommend Gilmag Safaris to anyone planning a trip to Tanzania.
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Email Peter | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Highly recommended! Great communication, safe, and trustworthy
Our safari with Gilmag was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience and I 100% recommend working with Mary and her team at Gilmag. My wife and I visited from California in mid-June for our honeymoon and we had an amazing experience (private safari for a couple with mid to high-end accommodations). Mary and Erick (our driver-guide) were hard-working, honest, and we felt safe and comfortable the whole time. Here's how it went:
*Booking*
Our goal was to have a safe, high-quality safari, with a great guide to see all the animals.
I emailed about 30 tour operators (after going through reddit, friend recs, trip advisor reviews, google, etc.) to inquire about their tours. I found with some operators they had nice website and a junior sales person in say the UK that was smooth but was only superficially knowledgeable around the actual on-the-ground safaris in Tanzania. Plus they charged a huge/unnecessary premium mainly for having a slick website and English-speaking sales reps.
Or I spoke to junior sales reps in Tanzania who's English was not as proficient and it felt like they were copy-pasting pre-written answers to me when I asked a simple question. Eventually, I had to pay thousands of dollars to one of these operators that I had never met in person, so I made sure to do my homework.
After emailing, whatsapping, and having calls with ~30 operators - Mary was BY FAR the best tour operator I spoke with. Her English is good and she was the most responsive (she would respond to my whatsapp messages quickly), knowledgeable (she has been running Gilmag locally from Tanzania for years and knows the ins-and-outs of every angle of a Safari tour), and flexible (she really listened and accommodated us when I asked for adjustments) travel agent I spoke to. We spoke about the various lodges at different levels and what she thought about them and I felt like I could trust her.
*Safari*
On the Safari - my wife and I had a once-in-a-lifetime trip. We saw lions (multiple times, cubs, lionesses, multiple male lions), hippos, giraffes, elephants, thousands of zebras, buffalo, and probably at least 100,000 wildebeests (the Great Migration is truly an epic natural wonder).
Erick was our Driver-Guide and we had a great experience with him. My wife and I always felt safe during the tour. As a driver, Erick was very safe and reliable - he always managed to get us to our lodges and flight on time (we typically liked to take a lot of photos and linger for a long time).
As a guide, Erick was great at finding all the animals. Once we saw about 15 lions about 5 to 20 feet away (lionesses, cubs, and TWO male lions at the same time). He was really knowledgeable about all the animals/plants/landscape in the Serengeti (he's been doing this for I think 10+ years). He taught us cool factoids like the hippos excrete in the pools, the fish eat the excrement, the crocodiles eat the fish - so if a crocodile eats a hippo they are ostracized from the group (I love this kind of stuff).
Mary also helped us arrange the flight from Central Seronera to Zanzibar and our airport transfer in Zanzibar. We felt very safe the whole time, knowing Mary had arranged a driver that she trusts to pick us up.
Overall, it was a 5 star safari experience. If you're looking to go on safari in the Serengeti, I would 100% recommend booking your safari with Mary and her team at Gilmag.