African Pangolin Safaris
African Pangolin Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2018)
- Member Of:
- TTB, TANAPA & NCAA
- Tour Types:
- Customizable private tours and fixed group tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $130 to $600 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Bettina | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3-day-tour Nyerere National Park - we advice
We can highly recommend African Pangolin Safaris as an organizer. They are very friendly, very flexible, and always provide accurate information about the trip, including travel conditions and billing. We especially recommend our tour guide, Gabriel. He was not only our driver but also our perfect guide, both on the full-day tour in the national park and during our visit to a Maasai group. He was always attentive and calm around the animals. Cheerful and always genuinely concerned for our well-being, he was very approachable and engaged in lively discussions about many topics. As a driver, we were impressed by his extensive and very safe driving skills. Thank you so much! We also recommend the tour itself. The 5-6 hour round trip from Dar es Salaam offers many memorable experiences (two-thirds on a roughroad). The boat trip with hippos is also highly recommended. The full-day tour through Nyerere National Park is packed with 12 hours of unforgettable moments. The number of jeeps in the national park is very manageable! On the day of departure, we visited a Maasai group, which was also informative and friendly. We would gladly book with them again.
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Email Maarten | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
My first safari and immediate the best!
We decided a good family vacation would be to go on safari for once. We decided to book through Mansoor, which was a great choice. We were greeted warmly at the airport by him and his colleague Yunus. The next morning we departed with another guide from African Pangolin Safaris, Bakari, who was also welcoming: Hakuna Matata he always says!
We visited Mikumi, Ruaha, and Udzungwa National Parks. Here we were able to see some amazing things and Mansoor and Bakari got us in touch with other great guides and people they knew. We got to hike in Udzungwa with zien beautiful views. The sightings during Game Drives in Mikumi and Ruaha were awesome, seeing even a baby leopard! Some might call it luck, but I would attribute it to the knowledge and experience of our guides.
If I ever return to Tanzania for a different trip I will definitely be getting in touch with Mansoor again for my next experience!
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Email Meike | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A wonderful experience!
Mansoor and Bakari are easy going, enthousiastic, funny guides who know much about all animals and plants we saw during the safaris. We saw so many elephants, zebras, impalas, giraffes, birds, hippo's, crocodiles, lions and even leopards! We will never forget this experience.
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Email Ariën | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Knowledgable and inspiring guides who lead you through beautiful Africa with no worry Hakuna Matata!
Our family—Mom, Dad, and six young adults—enjoyed wonderful days in Mikumi, Udzungwa, and Ruaha with guides Mansoor and Bakari. From our open-sided safari vehicles, we saw an endless array of wildlife, including giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, and elephants, as well as lions and leopards—all with their young! We experienced clear communication beforehand, a transparent quote, and a wealth of knowledge shared along the way. Never a dull moment, and always with a smile. They really know the locations! The trip was perfectly organized, with plenty of stops en route and transfers to and from the airport. Highly recommended!
Fun, smart guides with great knowledge and patience
I would 1000% recommend African Pangolin Safaris. All drivers are great people, have great knowledge and respond to any and all questions you ask them. They drive carefully and do not create stress on the road. Super friendly, respectful, fun and welcoming. They keep their vehicles clean and safe. Overall, had a great experience with them. If you go to Tanzania, consider booking with them you will not regret it.
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Email Domen Cof | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An exciting, safe way to experience the African wilderness.
The tour was - in one word - great! The tour guide Mansoor was transparent, helpful and kind, and most importantly, he knows all about the wild life and anything you might ask him on the way. The tour was very reasonably priced and we never felt unsafe or out of place, Mansoor made sure of that.
The tour itself across the Mikumi national park was great, tour guides constantly communicate where certain animals are located, giving you the perfect chance to catch some known hide-and-seek animals.
While the park itself has changed somewhat due to human activities inside the park (such as building an aiport??!), meaning animals are a bit scarcer than they used to be, you will still be amazed by the things you will see.
All in all, definitely recommend.
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Email Ema | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
We had a really good experience! Everything was well organized, reliable, and tailored to our wishes
We spent three days on safari in Mikumi National Park with Mansoor as our guide, and it was an experience we’ll always remember. He picked us up in Dar es Salaam and drove us to Mikumi, his car was excellent and perfectly suited for the safari.
Mansoor is patient, friendly, knowledgeable, but also very reliable. He listened carefully and made sure to accommodate every wish we had, which made us feel truly cared for.
I would recommend Mansoor to anyone looking for a warm, trustworthy guide and a memorable safari in Mikumi.
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Email Hana Ema Julija Hana | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
CIRCLE OF LIFE
We had such an amazing experience with African Pangolin Safaris! As a group of female students, we really appreciated how safe and comfortable we felt during the whole trip. We compared many safari prices before booking, and this was honestly one of the fairest and most affordable options we found. The food was good, the accommodation was nice, and the entire day was exciting from start to finish. We saw so many animals — even lions mating!
A special thank you to our guide Mansoor. He helped us arrange our bus tickets for the next journey, waited with us, and made us feel very safe and cared for the whole time. We truly hope our paths cross again someday ❤️
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Email Simone & Thomas | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Asante Sana (Thank you) Mansoor
Unforgettable, thank you so much Mansoor!
Sleeping lions, hunting lions, eating lions, a leopard, elephants, all you can imagine...
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Email Michel | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Don't look any further, you have found the best ...
After browsing sites like safaribookings.com, we found a program from African Pangolin Safaris that appealed to us, well-filled with what we wanted to see, and affordable within our budget. At our request, Mansoor further customized the program with an extra safari day in each of the three National Parks: Mikumi, Ruaha, and Nyerere (Selous). He also arranged a hotel stay in the city upon our late-evening arrival and an extra day in a beach hotel before our return flight, as well as all transfers. Furthermore, due to an announced strike at Amsterdam Airport, we arrived in Dar es Salaam a day early, so we left for Mikumi a day early for an extra day of safari. Mansoor arranged everything. Mansoor, who also accompanied us throughout the tour, and Ismael, who arranged the transfers to and from the airport, are friendly, polite, attentive, punctual, and careful drivers. We always felt safe, both in the hustle and bustle of the city and on the busy main road and unpaved dirt roads. The program was well-structured. The distances are what they are, but were kept short by overnight stays in interesting places like Iringa and MoroGoro. Thanks to Mansoor, we also visited places you wouldn't normally visit as a tourist: in a restaurant in town, in a village for lunch, or buying bananas or water at a roadside stand. Free drinking water was plentiful in the cooler in the vehicle, which had a pop-up roof for the game drives in the parks. Except for the dinners in Iringa and MoroGoro, all meals were included. There was plenty of choice, usually soup, chicken, beef, fish, pasta, potatoes, rice, and melon, pineapple, or cake for dessert. Lunches were sometimes packed, sometimes in restaurants. It's definitely worth visiting all three parks in the Southern Circuit, as each is completely different. What particularly appealed to us after visiting the northern parks 24 years ago was that the southern parks are much less crowded. The guides almost all know each other and exchange information about what they've seen when they cross paths, but even without that, Mansoor amazed us with sightings we would never have been able to make on our own. We saw a huge number of animals of various species, certainly thanks to Mansoor's more than 15 years of experience as a guide. He knows every path in the parks like the back of his hand and knows where the animals like to be at certain times. We opted for basic to mid-range accommodation and were very pleased to be able to stay close to, or even in the midst of, nature in many places. We feel like we've made a new friend in Mansoor and expect to return to Tanzania in the relatively short term to explore the even more unknown parks in the western circuit. Returning to Tanzania for a next safari, will definitely be again with Mansoor and African Pangolin Safaris.